Senior Director, Global SOX

Revolution Medicines; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolution Medicines seeks an experienced Senior Director, Global SOX to lead and scale the company’s Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and ICFR program from Redwood City headquarters. You will drive governance enterprise-wide, partner with regional teams, and oversee ITGCs, automated controls, and key reporting processes to support global expansion.

As a Controllership leader, you will manage timelines, risk assessments, remediation, and regulatory reporting, building a scalable, risk-based controls

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
• CPA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent certification strongly preferred; at least one relevant certification expected.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in SOX, internal controls, IT audit, public accounting, internal audit, controllership, or related fields.
• Significant experience leading a SOX 404 program for a publicly traded, multi-entity company with international operations.
• Deep knowledge of SOX 404, COSO, PCAOB auditing standards, SEC reporting requirements, ICFR, management review controls, and financial reporting risk assessment.
• Strong ITGC and ITAC experience across access, change management, SDLC, computer operations, interfaces, automated controls, key reports, SOC report review, CUECs, and third-party provider controls.
• Experience supporting global ERP or financial system implementations, upgrades, integrations, or transformations.
• Strong understanding of close, consolidation, intercompany, foreign currency, SEC reporting, equity, payroll, procurement, AP, treasury, leases, revenue, inventory, and other significant accounting processes.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional and cross-cultural stakeholders, drive accountability, and communicate clearly with senior leaders, auditors, control owners, and technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead RevMed’s global SOX and ICFR program, including planning, scoping, risk assessments, walkthroughs, documentation, testing, remediation, and reporting.
• Develop a scalable operating model with centralized governance and clear accountability.
• Partner with Accounting, SEC Reporting, IT, Commercial, and regional teams to identify financial reporting risks and ensure controls are well designed.
• Maintain SOX documentation including risk/control matrices, narratives, and attestations.
• Provide quarterly and annual SOX updates to Controller, senior management, and Audit Committee.
• Lead the global ITGC program for ERP, procurement, payroll, equity, SEC reporting, lease accounting, and other in-scope apps.
• Oversee ITGC domains such as user access, change management, SDLC, operations, interfaces, data integrity, cybersecurity, and third-party controls.
• Embed controls by design in system implementations, regional deployments, and significant process changes.
• Support controls over order-to-cash, revenue recognition, inventory, distributors, patient support, and country launches.
• Serve as the global SOX liaison with auditors, process owners, IT, Information Security, and other stakeholders.
• Identify audit bottlenecks, documentation gaps, control design issues, testing matters, and opportunities to automate controls.
• Build and develop a high-performing global SOX and ITGC function, including staff and co-sourced providers.

Skills

SOX 404

Internal controls

IT audit

COSO

SEC reporting

Audit coordination

Cross-functional leadership

Process improvement

Global governance

Financial risk assessment

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting/Finance

CPA/CIA/CISA or equivalent

Tools

NetSuite

Coupa

Workday

Workiva (E-SOX)

ADP

Job description

Revolution Medicines is a late-stage clinical oncology company developing novel targeted therapies for patients with RAS-addicted cancers. The company’s R&D pipeline comprises RAS(ON) inhibitors designed to suppress diverse oncogenic variants of RAS proteins. The company’s RAS(ON) inhibitors daraxonrasib (RMC-6236), a RAS(ON) multi-selective inhibitor; elironrasib (RMC-6291), a RAS(ON) G12C-selective inhibitor; zoldonrasib (RMC-9805), a RAS(ON) G12D-selective inhibitor; and RMC-5127, a RAS(ON) G12V-selective inhibitor, are currently in clinical development. As a new member of the Revolution Medicines team, you will join other outstanding professionals in a tireless commitment to patients with cancers harboring mutations in the RAS signaling pathway.

The Opportunity

RevMed is seeking an experienced, collaborative Senior Director, Global SOX to lead and scale the Company’s Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and internal controls program. This role has enterprise-wide governance responsibility for ICFR, ITGCs, ITACs, automated controls, key reports, and controls supporting evolving business processes, systems, commercial readiness, and global expansion.

As a key Controllership leader, this role partners with functions, auditors, and process owners across the United States, Europe, Japan, Canada, and other markets. The leader will establish global SOX governance and practical regional execution, ensuring rigorous compliance while building risk-based, scalable controls that work effectively with business operations.

This role reports to the VP, Finance, Controller, is based at RevMed’s Redwood City headquarters, and works closely with regional Finance, IT, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead RevMed’s global SOX and ICFR program, including annual planning, scoping, risk assessments, walkthroughs, documentation, testing coordination, deficiency evaluation, remediation tracking, and reporting.
• Develop a scalable operating model with centralized governance, consistent standards, clear accountability, and right‑sized controls that maintain compliance without unnecessary operational burden.
• Partner with Accounting, SEC Reporting, Technical Accounting, IT, Commercial, Supply Chain, Legal, HR, and regional teams to identify financial reporting risks and ensure controls are well designed, documented, owned, and effective.
• Maintain SOX documentation, including risk and control matrices, narratives, flowcharts, key reports, management review controls, and regional certifications or attestations.
• Provide quarterly and annual SOX updates to the Controller, senior management, and the Audit Committee, including status, key risks, deficiencies, and remediation progress.

ITGC, Systems and Commercial Readiness

• Lead the global ITGC program for enterprise and regional systems supporting financial reporting, including ERP, procurement, payroll, equity, SEC reporting, lease accounting, commercial, inventory, consolidation, and other in-scope applications.
• Oversee ITGC domains such as user access, privileged access, change management, SDLC, computer operations, interfaces, data integrity, cybersecurity dependencies, and third‑party providers.
• Partner with IT, Information Security, system owners, and process owners to assess control implications of new systems, integrations, cross‑border data flows, and significant configuration changes.
• Embed controls by design in system implementations, regional deployments, localizations, and significant process changes, including access provisioning, change management, report validation, and post‑implementation readiness.
• Support controls over commercialization and operational processes, including order‑to‑cash, gross‑to‑net, revenue recognition, inventory, third‑party logistics, distributors / specialty pharmacies, patient support, government pricing / rebates, and country launches.

Auditor Coordination, Remediation and Team Leadership

• Serve as the global SOX liaison with internal and external auditors, process owners, IT, Information Security, and other stakeholders to support efficient walkthroughs, testing, evidence submission, and issue resolution.
• Coordinate the global SOX calendar, PBC requests, control‑owner responses, audit deliverables, and consolidated status reporting across regions and time zones.
• Identify audit bottlenecks, documentation gaps, control design issues, testing matters, and opportunities to simplify or automate controls while maintaining compliance and auditability.
• Lead evaluation and remediation of control observations and deficiencies, including root cause, severity, impact, remediation plans, and validation of operating effectiveness.
• Build and develop a high‑performing global SOX and ITGC function, including employees, regional resources, consultants, and co‑sourced providers.

Required Skills, Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
• CPA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent certification strongly preferred; at least one relevant certification expected.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in SOX, internal controls, IT audit, public accounting, internal audit, controllership, or related fields.
• Significant experience leading a SOX 404 program for a publicly traded, multi‑entity company with international operations.
• Deep knowledge of SOX 404, COSO, PCAOB auditing standards, SEC reporting requirements, ICFR, management review controls, and financial reporting risk assessment.
• Strong ITGC and ITAC experience across access, change management, SDLC, computer operations, interfaces, automated controls, key reports, SOC report review, CUECs, and third‑party provider controls.
• Experience supporting global ERP or financial system implementations, upgrades, integrations, or transformations.
• Strong understanding of close, consolidation, intercompany, foreign currency, SEC reporting, equity, payroll, procurement, AP, treasury, leases, revenue, inventory, and other significant accounting processes.
• Proven ability to influence cross‑functional and cross‑cultural stakeholders, drive accountability, and communicate clearly with senior leaders, auditors, control owners, and technical and non‑technical audiences.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in a global biotech, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or healthcare company preparing for or operating in a commercial‑stage environment.
• Experience with multi‑country launch readiness, revenue recognition, gross‑to‑net, inventory, third‑party logistics, government pricing, specialty distributors / pharmacies, or patient support programs.
• Experience with NetSuite, Coupa, Workday, ADP, equity platforms, Active Disclosure / Workiva, lease and commercial systems, GRC / SOX tools, data warehouses, and reporting platforms.
• Experience building or scaling an in‑house global SOX function, including centralized standards and regional execution.
• Experience implementing SOX automation, evidence workflows, dashboards, analytics, or AI‑enabled monitoring.
• Public accounting or Big 4 / national firm experience strongly preferred.