This role will play a critical role in safeguarding HP’s operational integrity and mitigate risks, ingraining “compliance by design” culture across HP. They will report directly into the Office of the CIO (OCIO)
Responsibilities
- Be the compliance culture champion for HP closely partnering with senior leadership team across Digital Technology organization and its business partners.
- Lead the SOX compliance program, including the design, implementation, and monitoring of internal controls over financial reporting.
- Develop, maintain, and implement the control policy, process, and procedure documentation, ensuring it remains risk focused.
- Ensure the company stays updated on evolving risk management and financial control best practices.
- Coordinate and manage SOX, PCAOB, ISO related needs for internal and external audits.
- Oversee the operating businesses’ response to control observations identified by internal and external auditors.
- Act as the key point of contact with internal auditors, external auditors, and related advisors relating to financial controls as well as ITGC, ITAC.
- Regularly report to the Audit Committee on risk and financial controls
- Undertake second-line assurance testing of key controls and enable a rigorous self-certification process
- Review and test process and control enhancements made in response to control findings.
Required Education and Experience
- Master’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field
- CPA qualified with Big 4 public accounting experience, 15+ years.
- CSOP, CISA, CPA certifications strongly preferred.
- Internal and External auditor experience for Fortune 100 companies strongly preferred.
- Strong technical background with the ability to develop a team in US GAAP.
- 10+ years of experience in governance, SOX compliance, or internal controls within multinational organizations.
- Successful track record of leading IT compliance programs, remediating deficiencies, material weaknesses, collaborating with internal and external auditors.
- Familiarity with GRC tools, ERP systems (e.g., SAP), IGA, and reporting solutions.
Required Techno – Functional Skills
Risk Identification & Analysis: Adept in identifying, assessing, and prioritizing risks related to technology, financial reporting, cybersecurity, and data privacy.
Control Design & Implementation: Hands-on experience developing and implementing risk mitigation strategies and controls, particularly focusing on financial reporting risks.
Internal Control Frameworks: Familiarity with frameworks such as SOX, COSO, COBIT, and ISO 27001 for establishing and maintaining internal controls.
Control Testing & Monitoring: Experience evaluating control design and effectiveness, conducting control testing, and ensuring ongoing controls monitoring of systems, applications, and technology processes.
IT Infrastructure Knowledge: Understanding enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud services, and networks.
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC): Knowledge of secure development practices, including secure coding, vulnerability testing, and release management.
Business Continuity Planning (BCP): Understanding business continuity planning, disaster recovery strategies, and maintaining operational resilience.
Cybersecurity Awareness: Understanding of cybersecurity principles, including threat detection, risk mitigation, and incident response.
Behavioral Skills
- Team Leadership: Strong leadership abilities to guide and mentor team members, fostering a culture of compliance and risk awareness.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Ability to work with other business units (e.g., IT, business, internal and external audit, legal, compliance) to ensure alignment of internal controls and risk management strategies.
- Stakeholder Communication: Skilled in presenting complex risk and control issues to senior leadership and other stakeholders in a clear and actionable manner.
- Results-Driven: Must be able to drive outcomes. Able to balance strategic thinking and vision with strong ability to execute. Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Executive Impact & Presence: Balanced influence through boldness, presence, credibility, collaboration, and strong communication skills.
- Relationship Building: Instills trust and integrity through honesty and authenticity. Empathetic to the feelings and needs of other stakeholders.
- Acts as a role model. Demonstrates humility and seeks new ways to grow and be challenged. Communicates a vision or core purpose to a team. Acts as a personal change agent while helping others adapt to change.
- Growth Mindset: Talks beyond today. Talks about possibilities. Rallies support behind the vision.
- Resilient: Remains optimistic and persistent. Recovers quickly from setbacks.
