Head of SOX and Internal Controls

Coinbase

1d•Remote

About The Position

As the Head of SOX and Internal Controls, you'll join the Coinbase's Accounting team within Finance to own and continuously strengthen the company's SOX business process control environment across all in-scope entities and processes. This team ensures Coinbase maintains a robust, scalable internal control framework as we expand into new products, markets, and regulatory environments. You'll serve as the enterprise owner for SOX business process controls, partnering with Finance, Accounting, Operations, Product, Engineering, Risk, and Internal Audit to protect the integrity of our financial reporting.

Requirements

13+ years of progressive experience in SOX, internal controls, internal audit, or risk management, with significant exposure to public company environments and leadership of large-scale SOX programs.
Deep technical knowledge of SOX 404, PCAOB standards, and the COSO framework, with demonstrated ability to design and test business process controls across core finance and operational processes (revenue recognition, financial reporting, procurement, payroll, digital asset safeguarding).
Professional certification such as CPA, CA, CIA, CISA, or CRMA.
Track record of influencing senior leaders (CFO, CAO, Controller, Head of Internal Audit) and driving cross-functional initiatives without direct authority in a high-growth, technology-driven or financial services environment.
Proficiency with ERP systems, workflow tools, and control automation technologies (e.g., RPA, data analytics, continuous control monitoring), with experience managing SOX in multi-entity or multi-jurisdictional environments.
Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Responsibilities

Own the enterprise SOX business process control framework, including scoping, risk assessment, control design standards, and documentation requirements across all in-scope entities and processes.
Lead the annual SOX risk assessment, materiality determinations, and end-to-end design and implementation of key and non-key business controls (manual, automated, and IT-dependent).
Partner with Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Operations, Compliance, Legal, and Engineering to embed effective controls into core processes such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report, revenue, and digital asset flows.
Drive timely remediation of control deficiencies by designing and implementing sustainable corrective actions, and serve as the primary business controls liaison with Internal Audit and external auditors for SOX testing, walkthroughs, and evidence requests.
Build scalable control automation and data-driven monitoring capabilities that reduce operational friction while maintaining control effectiveness and enabling early-issue detection.
Execute regular SOX status reporting to senior leadership (CAO, CFO, Audit Committee), and establish governance forums, training, playbooks, and guidance for control owners and process owners across the organization.