Unit Manager SOX at Hire Resolve

• Hire Resolve is seeking a highly technical Unit Manager: SOX to lead the compliance programme for a major global industrial group. This role is essential for ensuring the integrity of financial reporting through the rigorous application of the COSO framework and PCAOB requirements. You will oversee the end-to-end SOX lifecycle, from risk assessment and scoping to deficiency evaluation and remediation oversight.

Key Performance Areas:

• Programme Management: Lead the day-to-day execution of the SOX compliance programme in accordance with approved methodologies and regulatory timelines.
• Risk & Scoping: Perform and coordinate SOX risk assessments, including materiality calculations and account/location scoping.
• Control Design: Lead the identification and documentation of key financial reporting and IT-dependent controls (RCMs and process flows).
• Effectiveness Testing: Coordinate the evaluation of control design and operating effectiveness, identifying execution risks and bottlenecks.
• Deficiency Evaluation: Perform detailed assessments of control deficiencies, including root cause analysis and severity assessment, and draft evaluations for senior management.
• Reporting & Certification: Manage quarterly Control Self-Assessment (CSA) and Control Environment Questionnaire (CEQ) processes.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Act as the primary point of contact for process owners, IT control owners, and external auditors.

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: NQF 8 (Postgraduate Diploma / Honours Degree / Professional Qualification).
• Professional Experience: * Minimum of 5 years’ SOX-related experience.
• At least 2 years in a leadership, supervisory, or senior specialist role.
• Technical Expertise: * Strong experience in SOX control documentation (IT and non-IT) and process flow evaluation.
• Practical experience applying the COSO Internal Control Framework.
• Advanced understanding of SOX Sections 404 and 302.
• Compliance: Clear credit and security screening record.
• Advantageous: CA(SA) qualification and experience within the mining or heavy industrial sectors.