Senior Technical Program Manager - SOX Control

Job Description:

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money— we're here to move our global customers forward.

We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

About the Role:

Remitly's Governance and Control Assurance (GCA) team ensures the integrity of the financial systems that millions of customers and partners rely on. As a Senior Technical Program Manager for SOX Control Design & Assurance, you will be our subject matter expert for IT general controls (the controls over access, change management, and operations of systems that support financial reporting) and own the design and lifecycle of our IT SOX controls. You will work with Engineering, IT, Finance, and internal and external auditors to make controls clear, testable, efficient, and increasingly automated.

You Will:

• Own SOX control design and lifecycle: Design new controls and redesign existing ones as regulations, systems, and risks change. Manage intake of new control requests, assess controls and evidence requests for relevance, accuracy, and duplication, and review the control library on a regular cadence.
• Lead our IT SOX compliance program: Serve as our expert on IT general controls, develop and maintain the annual SOX program plan, and keep the SOX control inventory in Optro accurate. Work with internal and external auditors on scoping, risk assessment, walkthroughs, and audit interviews.
• Automate and mature controls: Identify controls and evidence collection that can be automated, and partner with our engineering team to build them. Move controls from manual to automated, efficient operation, and improve workflows and templates in Optro, our governance, risk, and compliance platform.
• Oversee control execution: Own or oversee key recurring controls such as emergency (break-glass) access, employee terminations, and periodic user access reviews. Launch and quality-check monthly, quarterly, and annual control tasks, and lead investigations and impact assessments of potential or confirmed control deficiencies.
• Advise on SOX impact: Evaluate new system implementations, migrations, and architecture changes for SOX impact, and answer control owner and engineering questions on compliant design.
• Keep us audit-ready: Keep policies, process narratives, and control matrices current, and give leadership real-time dashboards on program status, control health, and risk.
• Communicate and enable: Run communication plans so every control owner understands their responsibilities and expectations. Build and deliver SOX and control design training for analysts, control owners, and Engineering and IT teams.
• As you grow in the role: Build self-service tools and templates so partner teams can design and update controls and evidence themselves, and define control health and maturity metrics that you report on over time.

You Have:

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep expertise in IT SOX and IT general controls, including hands-on control design (defining control objectives, attributes, and testability, and distinguishing preventive from detective and manual from automated controls).
• Experience managing control inventories and audit evidence in a governance, risk, and compliance platform such as Optro (formerly AuditBoard), ServiceNow GRC, or similar.
• Experience working with Engineering and IT teams to design automated controls and build compliance into system development and change management.
• Experience working directly with internal and external auditors, and clearly explaining control rationale and program status to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
• A record of leading cross-functional compliance or audit programs, improving control maturity, reducing repeat findings, and delivering audit-ready documentation.
• 7+ years in IT audit, SOX compliance, or technical program management, including at least 3 years as a senior program owner or subject matter expert.

How We'll Measure Success:

• The IT SOX program runs predictably and on schedule, with few surprises.
• New control requests move from intake to completed design promptly, and control owner and stakeholder questions get timely answers.
• The control library is reviewed regularly, and control attributes and documentation keep improving.
• The share of controls that are documented, testable, operating effectively, and healthy grows each quarter.
• Automation candidates are identified and delivered, and manual evidence collection and review effort measurably declines.
• Deficiencies are found early and remediated quickly, with fewer repeat or high-risk findings year over year.
• Engineering and IT consider SOX impact early in system design and change, and partners give positive feedback on the clarity of your guidance.
• Leadership has real-time visibility into SOX status, risks, and control maturity.

Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $136,000-$170,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.

Our Benefits:

• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
• Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Continuing education

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster.

Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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