Senior SOX Auditor Business Process Controls
Payward, Inc. is a global financial infrastructure company and the parent organization behind Kraken. It provides trading, custody, payments, lending, staking, tokenized assets, derivatives, and market data infrastructure to consumers, professional traders, institutions, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and onchain platforms.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward, Inc. operates a unified financial infrastructure platform powering a portfolio of products including Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, CF Benchmarks, and Payward Services. Its shared architecture provides global liquidity, risk and margin management, collateral and settlement, compliance and licensing, and operational infrastructure across crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets. Through Payward Services, the company offers APIs and infrastructure for crypto trading, custody, on/off-ramps, tokenized equities, derivatives, staking and yield, payments, and benchmark data. Payward operates across more than 190 jurisdictions and serves consumers, professional traders, institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and DeFi/onchain protocols.
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About the Role
You lead independent testing of business process SOX controls across revenue, financial close, and treasury. You evaluate control effectiveness, validate remediation, analyze deficiencies, coordinate testing, and report findings and remediation status to stakeholders and oversight bodies.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in internal audit, external audit, or SOX compliance
- CPA certification
- Experience in crypto, fintech, payments, or digital asset accounting
- Experience with revenue recognition for trading, staking, or custody services
- Knowledge of US GAAP, SOX compliance requirements, COSO framework, and PCAOB auditing standards
- Experience testing controls across revenue, financial close, treasury, or other financial reporting processes
- Experience operating across multi-entity structures or multiple jurisdictions
- Ability to communicate audit findings to control owners, senior leadership, and external stakeholders
- Familiarity with AuditBoard or Workiva
- Familiarity with AI-assisted audit tools
Responsibilities
- Lead independent controls testing across revenue, financial close, and treasury
- Evaluate control design and operating effectiveness
- Document testing procedures and results
- Validate IUC and IPE completeness and accuracy
- Build and maintain testing programs, templates, and workpapers
- Use AI-enabled workflows and data analytics to improve testing
- Validate remediation of open SOX findings
- Perform root cause analysis and assess control deficiencies
- Evaluate management remediation actions
- Track remediation progress and report status
- Coordinate with the SOX Compliance team
- Engage with Finance, Accounting, and Treasury control owners
- Report SOX testing coverage, findings, and remediation status
- Coordinate testing with IT SOX testers and co-sourced resources
