SOX Risk Architect and Compliance Lead
Posted Aug 28, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
How do you explain a control deficiency to an application team who think the risk is theoretical?
What they are checking: Whether they can translate a deficiency into concrete business and audit consequences, so engineers see a real problem instead of a compliance checkbox.
What would you do
You'd liaise with internal audit, internal controls, external auditors and application teams to remediate issues. How do you get a control owner to actually close a finding?
What they are checking: Whether they can get busy control owners to finish remediation, because open findings that never close become repeat deficiencies and draw auditor attention.
An external auditor disagrees with your assessment of a control. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they can defend a sound assessment with evidence while staying open to being wrong, rather than conceding every auditor point to avoid friction.
How do you keep controls current when applications are changing continuously?
What they are checking: Whether they can embed controls into deployment pipelines and change processes, since manual reviews cannot keep up with applications that ship every day.
This is based at North Chicago across information services systems. What would you want to know about the current control environment before you took it?
What they are checking: Whether they ask about open findings, audit history and tooling before committing, since inheriting a weak control environment changes what the first year looks like.
About the work
This role runs information technology risk management for financial reporting compliance. Walk me through a controls program you have owned.
What they are checking: Whether they have actually run a controls program end to end, including scoping, testing and remediation, rather than only contributing to one piece.
Which information technology general controls matter most to financial reporting, and where do companies most often fail them?
What they are checking: Whether they know access, change management and operations controls in practice, and can name where real companies slip, which shows lived audit experience.
You'd drive technology enablement to automate the delivery of audit evidence. What evidence would you automate first?
What they are checking: Whether they would automate high-volume, frequently requested evidence first, because sequencing automation well saves the most audit effort and builds credibility early.
You'd establish formal risk analysis and risk assessment programs for information systems. How do you scope which systems are in and out?
What they are checking: Whether they scope systems by their real link to financial statements, since scoping too wide wastes effort and too narrow leaves audit gaps.
How do you tell whether a control is designed well but operating badly?
What they are checking: Whether they separate design effectiveness from operating effectiveness, because the fix for a well-designed control done badly is very different from redesigning it.
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