Accounting Manager – Enterprise SOX Optimization and Automation (Senior Advisor)

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Occasional or permanent home working may be possible subject to a cable broadband or fiber connection with at least 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.

Salary: $101,400–$169,000 per year, depending on experience and geographic location. Eligible for an annual bonus plan.

Company

Healthcare organization serving clients, customers, and patients through Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services.

What you will do

• Modernize the enterprise SOX program through technology, reporting, dashboards, analytics, automated testing, and continuous controls monitoring.
• Lead SOX control rationalization and optimization with Finance, Technology, Operations, Internal Audit, control owners, and external auditors.
• Map processes and document financial reporting risks, data dependencies, system touchpoints, control points, narratives, flowcharts, and risk-control matrices.
• Provide SOX impact assessments and control design advice for transformations, system implementations, process redesigns, automation, and AI adoption.
• Assess data integrity, access, interfaces, configurations, system changes, key reports, spreadsheets, and system-generated data used in control performance.
• Prepare guidance, training, playbooks, executive updates, and recommendations on modernization, remediation, automation opportunities, and risk reduction.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Business, Risk Management, or a related field.
• 5–7 years of experience in SOX, internal controls, audit, risk consulting, technology risk, or controls transformation.
• Strong knowledge of SOX, ICFR, COSO, PCAOB expectations, and control design principles.
• Hands-on experience with business process controls, ITGCs, AI controls, key report controls, documentation, testing, remediation, and audit coordination.
• Experience with SOX or GRC platforms, preferably Optro/AuditBoard or Workiva, plus data analytics, reporting, dashboarding, automated testing, or control automation.
• Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, project management, critical-thinking, and stakeholder-influence skills.

Nice to have

• Big 4 risk consulting, IT audit, assurance, or advisory experience.
• CPA, CISA, CIA, CRMA, or equivalent certification.
• Advanced Excel and familiarity with Power BI, Alteryx, SQL, Python, or similar tools.
• Experience implementing continuous controls monitoring or automated SOX testing capabilities.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation, ERP, finance system, workflow, reporting, automation, or AI projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, well-being, and behavioral health benefits from the first day of employment.
• 401(k), company-paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.
• At least 18 days of paid time off per year.
• Collaborative work across Finance, Technology, Operations, Internal Audit, and external auditors.
• Focus on whole-health support and improving the lives of clients, customers, and patients.