SOX Compliance Manager

Position Summary

Position Summary:

The SOX Compliance Manager leads the design, implementation, execution, and ongoing oversight of the company's global financial SOX program. This role owns and drives an effective internal control environment over financial reporting (ICFR) with a primary focus on business process and operational/process-level controls across multiple regions and geographies (Americas, EMEA, APAC, and LAG). The SOX Compliance Manager coordinates annual SOX scoping and risk assessment, design/operating effectiveness testing, partners with control owners to remediate deficiencies, and serves as a primary liaison with internal and external auditors. This position requires effective multi-region coordination, time-zone flexibility, and cross-cultural communication to ensure standardized methodology and consistent execution while aligning, where applicable, with local statutory requirements and maintaining SEC/SOX expectations. The role operates within a regional execution model, where SOX testing is performed by peer testers within each region under a standardized global methodology and centralized program oversight.

Scope/ Supervision and Interaction:

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Report to the Director, Enterprise Compliance. Interacts with all groups, divisions, and corporate senior management globally. Partners with Accounting, Finance, Tax, Treasury, Information Technology, Legal, Human Resources, Operations Support, Shared Services, internal and external auditors and outside consultants as may be required to fulfill the scope of the position.

Essential Functions:

Governance and Methodology:

• Own and manage the global financial SOX program, including scoping, risk assessment, timelines, and deliverables across corporate and division locations across the organization/regions (Americas, EMEA, APAC, and LAG), aligned to management's governance and expectations.
• Maintain and enhance SOX methodologies and documentation standards for business process controls, including narratives, flowcharts and risk/control matrices (RCMs).
• Drive consistent execution of SOX requirements, including multi-region coordination to support timelines and deliverables.
• In coordination with management, lead the global operating model for SOX testing executed by peer testers, (planning, enablement, oversight, and quality assurance) to ensure consistent application of methodology and conclusions across regions.

Control Environment:

• Perform global risk assessment and gap analysis of the control environment and provide the framework and annual direction to global controllership to perform testing in support of the company's SEC (Security Exchange Commission) requirements and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regarding Management's Report on the Effectiveness of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting as presented in the Annual Report.
• Uphold the global control standards to support the external auditor's assessment in The Report of Independent Registered Accounting Firm as presented in the Annual Report.

Program Execution, Reporting & Stakeholder Management:

• Identify, assess, and communicate control deficiencies, partner with control owners to drive timely testing and remediation, strengthen process design, and implement sustainable improvements to prevent recurrence and enhance ICFR effectiveness.
• Manage Sarbanes-Oxley reporting requirements, including: tracking and verification of external audit fees in compliance with statutory reporting requirements; management of the CCQ (Certification and Controls Questionnaire) process and reporting results to senior management on a quarterly basis, remediation status reporting, and monitoring ongoing SOX compliance.
• Coordinate with Internal Audit and External Audit on external audit fee tracking and verification, annual SOX scope, reliance strategy, testing approach, and issue evaluation.
• Develop and provide global training and ongoing support for peer testers, and control owners (i.e., quick reference guides, templates, checklists, etc.), including onboarding and enablement for new users across the company.
• Integrate acquisitions into the SOX/ICFR program (initial scoping, control design remediation plan, Day 1 vs. Day 90 expectations, transition service agreements, etc.) in a timely manner.
• Partner with Accounting, Finance, IT, and business leaders to assess process changes for SOX impacts.
• Serve as primary liaison to the VP, Corporate Controller and the VP, Audit and Compliance on SOX/ICFR matters, including annual scoping and risk assessment alignment, testing status and results reporting, deficiency evaluation and remediation tracking, and escalation of potential financial reporting or control issues.
• Support the broader Enterprise Compliance function, including program enhancements, policy/control governance activities, special projects, and continuous improvement efforts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or related field. MBA preferred.
• CPA, CIA (or equivalent certification) preferred.
• 10+ years in key accounting positions.
• Public accounting (Big 4) experience strongly preferred.
• International work experience within a global company is strongly preferred.
• Travel - 20% (including domestic and international travel across Americas, EMEA, APAC, and LAG).
• Ability to work in a highly complex and technical environment under limited direction as to assignment with limited review.
• Understanding of SOX 404 requirements, COSO framework, and GAAP.
• Possess a well-rounded core knowledge of Accounting, Audit, Finance, Risk, Internal Controls, Compliance, Business, Legal, Governance, and Statutory concepts is necessary.
• Experience with operational/process-level controls that impact financial reporting (inventory, cost accounting, production reporting, reserves/estimates, capex/fixed assets).
  
  

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we've enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose - Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow - comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

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