fieldguide - SOX AI Specialist (Contractor)

• 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.