Lead Business Risk Controls Risk Advisor Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mailchimp, and Credit Karma, we serve over 100 million customers globally. Our mission is to power prosperity around the world — and that includes building a world-class control environment that scales with our innovation and ambition.

Role Summary

Come join Intuit as a Lead SOX Risk Advisor within the SOX Risk and Compliance Organization (SRCO). SRCO is a management-led function purpose-built to deliver a modern, sustainable, and risk-focused SOX program that scales with the business. SRCO enables Intuit's continued growth by establishing a strong foundation of financial compliance, risk management, and operational excellence. Within SRCO, the SOX Risk Advisory team acts as strategic advisors to business process owners, control owners, and our Technology Compliance and Risk Management Organization (TCRM) to ensure financial reporting integrity and readiness for business change.

In this high-impact role, reporting to the Senior Manager, SOX Risk Advisory, you’ll drive strategic SOX readiness projects and provide risk advisory expertise across many process areas to ensure compliance with SOX while enabling process excellence. You’ll play a key role in strengthening the control environment and maintaining Intuit’s financial integrity.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as an end-to-end process and control expert advising control and process owners on SOX requirements, risk assessment, control design, and optimization strategies. 

• Drive the readiness intake and assessment process for new initiatives or business transformations to identify the relevant financial statement risks, financial statement line items, and SOX implications with clear and thorough rationale.

• Develop, drive, and execute detailed project plans to ensure SOX readiness projects are delivered on time and with high quality, resulting in well-designed and effective controls. 

• Quickly develop a deep understanding of processes and systems, to identify key financial statement risks and potential controls. Influence and drive the implementation or modification of controls to mitigate risks in the most audit and business friendly manner. Considering all aspects of scoping, level of effort, testing complexity and scalability. 

• Draft risk and control matrices (RCMs), including key systems, tools, and service providers, based upon review of management’s artifacts (i.e. process documentation, dataflow diagrams, etc.) and walkthroughs across stakeholder groups.

• Design and execute testing to ensure control evidence and scope are sufficient and aligned with risk.

• Manage the deficiency evaluation process including root cause analysis, management action plan development, and remediation monitoring and validation.

• Partner with process owners and control owners to drive awareness and understanding of SOX requirements and protocols, control design requirements, and enterprise control strategy.

• Challenge and optimize control design decisions while balancing business objectives and risk mitigation.

• Lead with an extreme sense of ownership and forward-looking mindset to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement within our control environment. 

• Proactively lead and influence cross-functionally and at all levels of management. Cultivate strong relationships with leaders in Accounting, Finance, TCRM, and across the Business in order to facilitate timely, high-quality decision-making in connection with the SOX control environment and related financial risk.

• Apply AI-assisted workflows and AI tooling to perform SOX readiness assessments accelerating throughput across a high-volume portfolio of SOX readiness projects while maintaining audit-quality rigor.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is: 

Bay area: 152,000-206,000

San Diego: 142,000-192,500

Qualifications

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years of relevant work experience in Big 4 Public Accounting, risk consulting, and/or in SOX industry experience, Fintech or Software industry experience preferred. 

• BA/BS degree in Accounting, Finance or related field. CPA required. CIA or MBA is a plus.

• Must be able to work onsite in the Atlanta, San Diego or Mountain View office 3 days a week.

• Strong understanding of financial reporting risk, internal controls (business process and ITGC), and PCAOB requirements. 

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate new processes or changes to  processes, assess and identify potential financial reporting risks and advise on optimal control design.

• Must possess strong attention to detail, excellent organizational and multitasking skills in order to work flexibly across stakeholders and navigate a fast-paced, evolving environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication in order to articulate a complex problem and independently provide a clear, data-backed recommendation. 

• Ability to simplify complex concepts into clear and action-oriented communications and work through ambiguity, with confidence in making tough calls and leading through adversity with a sharp focus on driving the right outcomes.

• Proven leadership and process management skills, including the ability to own, drive, and deliver on multiple complex and ambiguous workstreams simultaneously with high quality and appropriate urgency.

• Ability to proactively look ahead, identify and resolve roadblocks, think creatively to achieve the best outcomes, and elevate issues to the right level when needed, to resolve.

• Proven ability to leverage AI tools and emerging technologies to rethink and redesign processes, reduce manual burden, and drive measurable efficiencies — applying an AI-first mindset to how SOX work gets done, not just what it governs. 

• Hands-on experience with SOX readiness, automation or transformation initiatives is a plus.

• Practical experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) for compliance or audit work, including prompt-driven document analysis, control narrative drafting, and risk assessment. Ability to critically evaluate AI outputs for accuracy and audit defensibility is required, including comfort with structured prompting techniques to extract reliable, auditable outputs.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is: 

Bay area: 152,000-206,000

San Diego: 142,000-192,500