Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis SOX Program Manager

About The Role

Summary

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) SOX Program Manager is a corporate resource responsible primarily for overseeing the management of Glacier Bancorp's Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance program. This role owns the SOX materiality assessments and scoping analysis, and works with corporate departments, bank Divisions and senior leadership to facilitate, design, and update key SOX controls and manage the control and process certifications activities.

It requires strong partnerships with internal stakeholders and supports other FP&A responsibilities including risk management and governance activities, Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) for vendor contracts, and coordination with internal auditors and external regulators. Support of FP&A model validations and preparation and maintenance of key departmental documentation are also critical components.

This is a Corporate position which may be located at an available bank division location across our nine-state footprint in AZ, CO, , MT, NV, TX, UT, WA, or WY. The entry rate for this position is $+/year (calculated for Kalispell, MT).  to learn more about our bank divisions. All compensation offers are analyzed individually and consider geographic location, experience, and education.

WA Applicants ONLY pay range: $ to $ per year.

Description

SOX Program Management

• Carry out a regular schedule of materiality and scoping analyses to determine potential gaps in coverage related to SOX controls and identify Significant Accounts to be considered in-scope for SOX.
• Collaborate with corporate department and Division leaders to design and create additional controls as necessary and develop clear process narratives, ensuring effectiveness and adherence to a formal change control process.
• Design, distribute and gather control and process certifications from control and process owners; use feedback to adjust processes, control information, or control designs.
• Coordinate with IT management and other business owners to perform periodic technology assessments on the company’s IT systems and applications from a SOX perspective.
• Prepare and distribute formal SOX program documentation including entity level control assessments, completeness and accuracy memos, and management knowledge assessments to key internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist and educate control owners in understanding their SOX responsibilities and compliance efforts.
• Work with Internal Audit on testing of SOX controls and assist control owners with deficiency analysis as needed for identified control failures.
• Design and implement a Completeness & Accuracy program for key reports used by business lines and Divisions.
• Facilitate activities by external auditors related to deposit and loan account confirmations and present all SOX program elements to the GBCI Executive team and Divisions' Boards of Directors.

Risk Management

• Expand and enhance internal processes related to third-party contract reviews and negotiation. Partner with TPRM to formalize mechanisms for external support and establish processes for triggering and monitoring outside engagements.
• Coordinate with ERM and TPRM to enhance oversight of renewal timing and notification periods, providing support for contract owners.
• Foster, oversee, and manage department relationships or engagements with external third parties.
• Lead FP&A engagements with internal/external Auditors, Enterprise Risk Management, or external regulatory examiners.
• Facilitate internal departmental risk assessments and model validations with Model Risk Management, including assessments of non-model tools, coordinating responses to findings and creating required documentation or controls.
• Coordinate with FP&A staff to prepare internal responses to organizational risk metric limit failures or tolerance breaches.
• Support departmental efforts regarding scenario-based analysis and sensitivity testing.

Funds Transfer Pricing

• Support FP&A Department head in achieving organizational objectives regarding Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) framework through cost allocation, product pricing, and internal financial reporting.
• Work with internal partners to implement and maintain FTP integration with formal pricing engine tools used by Division staff.
• Enhance understanding of the FTP framework through design, construction, and automation of relevant reporting.

Platforms & Data Management

• Enhance current processes through automation and integration with internal and external data sources and visualization software (Power
  
  BI); improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.
• Champion process or reporting automation and system improvements to reduce manual control points.
• Collaborate with the internal data warehouse team to support BI and FP&A initiatives regarding data availability and performance metrics.
• Perform monthly processing in support of platform requirements, including handling large data sets and Data Quality Assurance.
• Must comply with all company policies and procedures and applicable laws and…