Senior Manager Public RE SOX

Invesco - Atlanta, GA

Part-time,Full-time - Senior

Atlanta, GA

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Senior Manager - Public RE SOX role at Invesco is responsible for leading the Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance program for three SEC registered Real Estate Investment Trusts. This position involves coordinating SOX compliance, managing risk assessments, and ensuring effective internal controls over financial reporting. The role requires collaboration with various departments and external auditors to establish a sustainable SOX program, while leveraging technology to enhance compliance processes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate SOX compliance across the three Public Market Real Estate Funds.
• Demonstrate knowledge of COSO control framework and serve as a subject-matter expert on Internal Controls over Financial Reporting.
• Facilitate compliance with SOX by managing risk assessments, reviewing control designs, implementing control testing strategies, and evaluating and remediating internal control deficiencies.
• Support internal and external audit related activities, including providing documentation for audits, explaining control design and reviewing operating results, discussions with control owners, and evaluating any issues that may arise.
• Provide timely and detailed status updates on control readiness, effectiveness, testing results, and remediation plans to management.
• Leverage technology effectively, leading the effort to bring consistency in the SOX database platform across the three funds.
• Evaluate significant changes to the business, systems or the use of third-party service providers, working with control owners to ensure appropriate one-time and ongoing controls are implemented.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.
• Minimum of 8 to 10 years of progressive accounting experience.
• Concentration in SOX compliance with a public company, working directly on design, implementation, remediation, and testing.
• Knowledge of investment products and systems is a plus.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to perform job duties with minimal supervision.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
• Health & wellbeing benefits
• Parental Leave benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan