VP, Internal Audit and Controls

Have you ever had that green-light feeling? When you hit every green light and the day just feels like magic. CLEAR's mission is to create frictionless experiences where every day has that feeling. With more than 30+ million passionate members and hundreds of partners around the world, CLEAR’s identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or right on your phone, CLEAR connects you to the things that make you, you - unlocking easier, more secure, and more seamless experiences - making them all feel like magic.

As an integral part of the Finance Leadership Team, the VP, Internal Audit and Controls will lead company wide risk assessment activities, maintaining, designing and implementing controls across the organization.

What you'll do:

• Strategic Risk Management: Spearhead the design and execution of a comprehensive, company-wide risk assessment program, prioritizing risks specific to a public technology company with a focus on security. Be proactive in identifying new risks as the Company innovates and grows and have a strong understanding of information technology systems
• Internal Controls Architecture: Design, implement, and continuously refine an efficient and effective internal controls framework across the entire organization. This includes developing and maintaining detailed control documentation (process narratives, process flows, and risk matrices)
• Executive Reporting & Remediation: Communicate critical risk management issues, internal control deficiencies, and strategic recommendations for improvement and remediation to the Audit Committee, Executive Leadership, and relevant stakeholders
• System & Process Optimization: Evaluate and modernize current systems and processes to identify gaps and opportunities for automation and efficiency gains, and lead the implementation of recommended technological solutions
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Actively cultivate and manage strategic relationships with cross-departmental leaders in Finance, Engineering, and Security, championing the importance of strong internal controls and compliance initiatives throughout the organization
• External Audit Oversight: Strategically manage and coordinate support for annual financial statement and compliance audits, serving as the primary liaison and point of contact for external auditors. Find solutions for making the external audit process more efficient for all internal stakeholders
• Advisory & Training: Serve as a technical resource and strategic advisor to process owners, providing high-quality training, review, and guidance to strengthen their control environments
• Regulatory Expertise: Maintain and disseminate expert-level knowledge of changes in regulatory guidance (e.g., SEC, PCAOB), US GAAP, industry best practices, and areas of focus for internal and external audits

• Comprehensive Risk Mitigation: All significant risks are proactively identified, thoroughly documented, strategically mitigated, and timely addressed
• High-Impact Reporting: Timely and high-quality audit documentation is maintained, and all audit issues result in a well-documented, agreed-upon, and tracked remediation action plan with clearly defined ownership and deadlines
• Operational Excellence: Tasks are completed on schedule, and the root causes of issues are effectively remediated, demonstrating tangible improvements to the control environment
• Audit Function Leadership: Leadership of a highly respected, strategically focused audit function that executes audits with minimal operational disruption and builds strong, productive cross-functional relationships founded on trust and shared objectives

• 12+ years of accounting/audit experience, with a Bachelors Degree in Accounting and CPA in good standing strongly preferred
• Knowledge of US GAAP and experience with SOX; familiarity with SOC1 and SOC2 reporting and process preferred
• Collaborative, innovative, flexible, and adept at building relationships and driving work forward across the organization
• Ability to handle multiple projects and deliverables in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Google Suite and Microsoft Office proficiency. Experience using an ERP system such Netsuite is a plus

How You'll be Rewarded:

At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs. 

We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The base salary range for this role is $235,000-$275,000, depending on levels of skills and experience.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of CLEAR’s salary range for this position. Salaries will vary depending on various factors which include, but are not limited to location, education, skills, experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of CLEAR’s total compensation package for employees and other rewards may include annual bonuses, commission, Restricted Stock Units

CLEAR provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or protected needs. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include, but are not limited to, time off, extra breaks, making a change to the application process or work procedures, policy exceptions, providing documents in an alternative format, live captioning or using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity.