IT SOX Manager in London

Groupon connects 42 million customers with local experiences - restaurants, events, wellness and travel - and the million-plus merchants who deliver them. Our mission is to get people offline and into the real world at prices that make it possible. We're an AI-native company in the middle of a platform transformation, moving from a deals marketplace to an experience discovery platform that works for customers and merchants at the same time.

Ready to have a direct impact on the financial success of a public company? Groupon is an experiences marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiences – big and small, new and familiar – that make for a full, fun and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationships – resulting in strong, vibrant communities. With employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success.

This position will function at an IT SOX Manager level reporting to the Internal Audit Director. The core responsibility of this role is to assess IT general controls and application controls for design effectiveness and operating effectiveness. Beyond IT SOX testing, this role performs business process control testing and partners closely with Finance and Accounting — we're looking for someone who understands the financial reporting side of the controls they test, can work cross-functionally with accounting teams, and has the range to expand into operational audit work as the team's mandate grows.

As an IT SOX Manager you must have audit experience and the ability to interact with management at all levels. This position requires excellent communication skills as well as an understanding of COBIT, COSO, generally accepted accounting principles, and IT audit techniques.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the IT general controls (ITGCs) and application controls within the financial reporting risk and control matrix (RCM).
• Scope systems into SOX control testing based on risk assessment, including new and migrating platforms.
• Create process narratives to map out financial reporting processes.
• Lead control walkthroughs and assess design effectiveness of controls.
• Develop control test procedures, inclusive of testing attributes.
• Test the operating effectiveness of IT general controls, application controls, entity-level controls, and business process controls.
• Review SOX control testing workpapers prepared by senior and staff auditors to ensure adequate documentation supports conclusions.
• Evaluate the severity of control deficiencies (deficiency, significant deficiency, material weakness) and draft management's position memos.
• Monitor remediation status of IT SOX control failures to ensure corrective action has been taken.
• Own coordination with external auditors, including the reliance process, PBC management, control design and gap discussions, and new system implementation reviews.
• Partner with Finance and Accounting on integrated audits and cross-functional initiatives, connecting IT controls to their financial statement impact.
• Leverage AI tools and data analytics to scale control testing — anomaly detection, reconciliation validation, workpaper drafting — with appropriate guardrails for SOX and financial data.
• Train and mentor control owners and internal audit team members on IT SOX best practices.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or relevant equivalent.
• 6+ years of proven audit experience, including experience leading SOX testing or supervising audit staff.
• CISA, CISM, CIA, CPA, CMA, or Chartered Accountant preferred.
• Solid grasp of finance and accounting fundamentals — able to trace IT controls to financial reporting risk and flex into business-process or operational audit work.
• Systems savvy; experience with NetSuite, Workday, BigQuery, or Keboola is a plus; AuditBoard experience is a plus.
• Comfortable working with data warehouses and writing SQL queries (BigQuery a plus).
• Experience applying AI or data analytics to audit work is a strong plus.
• Microsoft Office proficiency; high level of comfort with Excel is required.
• Pro-active doer; innately curious, enthusiastic attitude, desire to continually challenge existing processes and improve them.
• Energized by a fluid, fast-paced environment.