Senior SOX Risk & Compliance Architect

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie seeks an experienced SOX Risk Architect & Compliance Lead to mature IT risk governance, control design, and compliance programs. You will coordinate across audit, IT, security, and business teams to implement SBX controls and policy frameworks.

You will drive automation for evidence delivery, monitor regulatory compliance, and help shape AbbVie's risk strategy in a dynamic, global environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master/PhD with IT compliance/audit experience
• Strong SOX regulatory knowledge and risk management
• Experience with governance, risk and compliance frameworks

Responsibilities

• Establish and oversee formal risk analysis and risk-assessment programs for IT systems and processes, focusing on SOX controls
• Drive technology enablement to automate SOX audit evidence delivery
• Ensure and monitor compliance with SOX and other regulations
• Liaise with Internal Audit, External Auditors and IT teams to remediate issues and track compliance-related items
• Participate in creation and maintenance of AbbVie’s risk, security & compliance policies
• Maintain expertise on governance, risk, security & compliance trends to mitigate exposures
• Ensure adherence to applicable corporate and divisional policies and procedures
• Review and input to improve IT policies and procedures

Skills

SOX compliance

Risk assessment

Regulatory knowledge

Leadership experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT/CS/CE

Master's Degree with 6 yrs exp

PhD with 2 yrs exp

Tools

COBIT

ISO 27001

ITIL

Risk IT

Job description

AbbVie seeks an experienced SOX Risk Architect & Compliance Lead to mature IT risk governance, control design, and compliance programs. You will coordinate across audit, IT, security, and business teams to implement SBX controls and policy frameworks.

You will drive automation for evidence delivery, monitor regulatory compliance, and help shape AbbVie's risk strategy in a dynamic, global environment.