Risk and Controls Program Manager

What You'll Do

• Partner with engineering, business, and internal audit teams to drive efforts related to Spotify’s global Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements.
• Liaise and translate risk and controls between the business process and IT General Controls (ITGC) environments across a complex systems landscape that follows an agile development approach.
• Collaborate with process and control owners to maintain an effective Engineering (IT) control environment, including recommendations for the design, implementation, and remediation of ITGCs and IT application controls.
• Provide training and support for system control owners and their teams to ensure effective operation of ITGCs and associated business process controls.
• Enable the efficient execution of our SOX compliance program and schedule by serving as the primary liaison between external audit and the R&D Engineering teams you support.
• Provide thought leadership and risk and compliance support as our businesses, processes and technology evolve.
• Support major business and technology projects by providing risk analysis and control impact assessments while assisting in the implementation of any associated control or process changes.
• Monitor industry and regulatory (SEC, PCAOB) developments and develop recommendations for policy, process, technology, and internal control improvements.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in public accounting, risk and controls/IT compliance, Internal Audit, or an equivalent role.
• CPA/CISA or other relevant certification is strongly preferred.
• Big 4 experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of and experience working with software engineering teams and standard engineering methodologies, including Agile and CI/CD.
• Ability to work independently to plan, complete, and deliver on projects in an assigned organizational area.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills (i.e., expectation setting, education, prioritization, etc.).
• Experience with control environments related to financial SaaS systems, NetSuite or other similar cloud ERP is a plus.
• Experience working with multinational organizations and teams distributed across multiple time zones is a plus.

Where You'll Be

• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the Americas region as long as we have a work location.
• This team operates within the Eastern Time Zone for collaboration.