Associate Manager - Internal Audit

audits. The role will focus on assisting the US team with developing and executing an annual SOX project plan that enables Management to meet its SOX 404 and 302 responsibilities. In addition, the Internal Audit Associate Manager will assist with specific process improvement activities designed to continuously improve the overall SOX Governance Program. This role will also assist in the delivery of a periodic sequence of country audits focused on operational and compliance objectives. A successful candidate will bring leading practices from other SOX Governance Programs and promote innovation to strengthen the company's internal control environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist with the management and conduct of the annual SOX project plan ensuring efficient and timely execution of all stages of the SOX program.

• Become the Internal Audit team''s subject matter expert with Audit Board''s SOXHUB application that is critical to the program management of Xperi''s annual SOX plan, including comprehensive status reporting.

• Independently run reports, or leverage existing reports, from Xperi''s NetSuite ERP and have experience with running reports in other key financial applications.

• Assist with the scoping and materiality assessment to identify significant accounts and key controls, including qualitative and quantitative analysis.

• Design and conduct audit data analytics to measure risk and assess the ongoing operation of key controls.

• Collaborate with process owners across the world to update narratives, flowcharts, risk and control matrices as the business grows and processes change.

• Integrate evaluations of key reports, business process controls, application controls and IT general controls.

• Coordinate SOX planning, PBC requests and testing with external auditors, including walkthroughs, providing evidence, and maintaining sufficient documentation.

• Develop appropriate procedures, create a testing plan, and perform SOX testing of key controls for relevant business processes.

• Appropriately document exceptions and deficiencies, including working with process owners to develop and execute a remediation plan.

• Assist with annual continuous improvement actions and innovation of the SOX program.

• Coordinate and/or conduct testing other country specific financial internal controls required by statutory laws and filings.

• Test transactions broader than business process financial internal controls, including, but not limited to IT general controls, application controls and workflows, segregation of duties, SOC reports and internal audit testing related to operational and compliance objectives and risks.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor''s degree in accounting or finance, with professional certifications that are similar to a USA CPA or CISA license.

• 5 - 7 years of experience with US 404 & 302 SOX compliance for a multi-national public technology company and/or Big 4 experience.

• Ability to communicate efficiently and effectively with all levels of management, external auditors, and all functions of the company, including ability to complete high quality workpapers in English language.

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver high quality results and successfully navigate time zones, which for this role, will span to both the USA and Europe.

• Experience with leadership and ability to manage a team, which could include managing contracted resources that assist with testing.

• Demonstrated project management skills, including managing an audit project plan from beginning to end.

• Understanding of US GAAP, SOX requirements, COSO framework, and the audit process.

• Innovative collaborator with an understanding of the interconnectivity of the business processes and their effects on the control environment.

Life @ Xperi:

At Xperi, we value People, Customers, Performance and Innovation. We are dedicated to creating a workplace where all employees have a voice and sense of belonging, feel safe and valued, and are acknowledged for how their unique differences contribute to organizational culture and business outcomes.

Our employees and their families are important to us, and our comprehensive pay, stock and benefits programs reflect that. Xperi supports personal well-being, builds financial security and enables employees to share in our collective success.

Rewards include:

• Competitive compensation (salary, equity and bonuses) and comprehensive benefits designed to foster work-life balance, care for your health, protect your finances and help you save and invest for the future.
• Generous paid time away from work, including flexible time off, holidays and sick time, health and wellness initiatives, and a charitable match program to help you give back to your community.
• Great perks, which vary by location and can be site-specific: employee discounts, transportation reimbursements, subsidized cafes and fitness facilities.
• A flexible, hybrid work environment combining the best of in-office collaboration and community-building along with the benefits of working from home.