Senior SOX Compliance Analyst - Controls & Audit

GXO Logistics, Inc; High Point (NC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Incentive plan

Job summary

GXO Logistics, Inc in North Carolina is seeking a Senior Analyst, SOX Compliance to maintain a robust SOX program as the organization grows. You will ensure control design, documentation, and evidence alignment across regions.

The role involves governance of AuditBoard, ADA design assessments, evaluating SOX impact of system changes, and training on controls. The team emphasizes accuracy, timeliness, and collaboration, with a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Three or more years’ experience with SOX 404 compliance and internal controls evaluation.
• Experience in public accounting or combined public/industry internal audit.
• Experience with US-owned groups.
• Strong background in financial accounting and audit.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines in a small team.

Responsibilities

• Ensure control design and documentation standards are consistent across regions by establishing clear expectations, reviewing control language for precision, and promoting alignment in how controls are evidenced and maintained.
• Oversee AuditBoard governance, including timely control updates, certifications, proper archiving of prior-year controls, user access oversight, and identification of system enhancements to improve efficiency and reporting accuracy.
• Drive the Annual Design Assessment (ADA) process by coordinating timelines, reviewing submissions for quality and completeness, challenging control design where necessary, and ensuring updates are appropriately reflected in the system.
• Evaluate the SOX impact of system implementations, organizational changes, process redesigns, acquisitions, and other business transformations to determine scoping implications, new control requirements, or modifications to existing controls.
• Ensure deficiencies are properly evaluated, supported with sufficient evidence, and aggregated in accordance with SOX methodology, including root cause analysis, severity assessment, and alignment with management’s conclusion.
• Support walkthroughs and PBC coordination by preparing documentation, aligning control owners on expectations, facilitating auditor discussions, and proactively addressing follow-up inquiries to minimize rework.
• Strengthen IPE governance and key report testing by ensuring completeness and accuracy procedures are clearly documented, reports are appropriately validated, and testing standards are applied consistently across manual and automated controls.
• Identify and deliver SOX training requirements by assessing knowledge gaps (particularly for new control owners), developing targeted training materials, and providing ongoing education to reinforce accountability, documentation standards, and control awareness.

Skills

SOX compliance

Internal controls

Excel

Analytical skills

Project management

Job description

GXO Logistics, Inc in North Carolina is seeking a Senior Analyst, SOX Compliance to maintain a robust SOX program as the organization grows. You will ensure control design, documentation, and evidence alignment across regions.

The role involves governance of AuditBoard, ADA design assessments, evaluating SOX impact of system changes, and training on controls. The team emphasizes accuracy, timeliness, and collaboration, with a competitive benefits package.