What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior SOX Compliance Analyst position at Vaco by Highspring?
Location: San Diego, CA
About the Company:
A leading life sciences company dedicated to advancing biotech, biopharma, and diagnostics industries by providing essential products and services in nucleic acid production and biologics safety testing. With a strong focus on innovation, they support the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and cutting-edge diagnostic tools, especially in the growing mRNA field.
Position Overview:
We are seeking a Senior SOX Compliance Analyst to join the finance and accounting team. In this pivotal role, you will assist in risk management, control assessments, and maintaining the SOX compliance framework, working closely with stakeholders to ensure a seamless compliance process. You will play a key role in shaping control strategies, anticipating testing needs, and addressing deficiencies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead SOX scoping to identify key changes in financial accounts, processes, systems, and controls.
- Collaborate with control owners and auditors to design and refine controls, while proactively managing testing and documentation requirements.
- Engage with stakeholders to address control deficiencies and drive remediation efforts.
- Manage and update the risk and control matrix and oversee quarterly certification processes using AuditBoard.
- Facilitate control testing, walkthroughs, and coordinate between auditors and control owners.
- Build strong working relationships with auditors and promote awareness of risk and control practices across all levels.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field required.
- 3 years of experience, ideally a blend of public accounting and public company work.
- Deep experience with SOX compliance, including risk assessments and control design.
- Strong ability to anticipate questions, assess risks independently, and think critically.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex topics.
- Knowledge of U.S. GAAP and SOX regulations, with familiarity in NetSuite and AuditBoard a plus.
- CPA and/or CIA certification preferred.
Work Schedule:
Tuesdays and Thursdays in-office presence required.
Compensation:
The anticipated salary range is $80,000 - $115,000, depending on experience and qualifications. Additional long-term incentives include equity, bonuses, and comprehensive benefits as part of the total compensation package.
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco by Highspring") respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.
- California residents may access Vaco by Highspring HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
- Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
- Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
- Canadian residents may access our policies in English here and in French here.
- Residents of countries governed by GDPR may access our policies here.
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
Salary : $80,000 - $115,000
