• At least four years of hands-on control testing experience in SOX compliance, internal audit, or internal controls, with direct responsibility for control design and testing.
• Broad experience across a range of control types, industries, and firms, with clear expertise in business process control testing.
• The ability to consistently explain why a test step, exception, or conclusion passes or fails and to turn that reasoning into clear evaluation criteria.
• Strong written reasoning: you can explain workflows and decisions step by step and turn professional judgment into clear rules, edge cases, and review criteria.
• A high degree of comfort and hands-on experience using AI tools, writing prompts, and working with agentic harnesses.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, testing ideas quickly, and changing your approach when the evidence does not support it.
• Availability for the expected time commitment during the initial engagement.
• WHAT WE’D LOVE TO SEE
• Experience at the senior or manager level reviewing SOX workpapers or coaching testers.
• A CPA, CIA, or similar relevant credential.
• Experience across multiple companies, clients, industries, or control environments.
• Familiarity with both business process controls and ITGCs.
• Demonstrated interest or experience in creating AI workflows or tools of any kind.