Head of SOX and Internal Controls

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As the Head of SOX and Internal Controls, you will join Coinbase's Accounting organization within Finance to lead and strengthen the company’s global SOX control environment across all in-scope entities and processes. As Coinbase scales and expands internationally, this leader will ensure a robust, sustainable internal control framework that supports accurate financial reporting and compliance, while serving as a key advisor to senior leadership and enterprise risk management.

You will serve as the enterprise owner for SOX business process controls, partnering across Accounting, Finance, Operations, Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Internal Audit to protect the integrity of financial reporting.

What you'll do:

• Own the enterprise-wide SOX business process control framework, including scoping, risk assessment, control design standards, and documentation requirements across all in-scope processes.
• Lead annual SOX risk assessment, materiality determinations, and design and implementation of key and non-key controls, including manual, automated, and IT-dependent controls.
• Partner with Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Product, and Engineering to embed controls into order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report, revenue recognition, payroll, treasury, and digital asset safeguarding as well as ensuring consistent control design across emerging products and jurisdictions and cross-functional accountability.
• Drive timely remediation of control deficiencies by designing sustainable corrective actions and serving as primary liaison with Internal Audit and external auditors during SOX testing, walkthroughs, and evidence requests and ensuring control sustainability post-remediation.
• Build scalable control automation, continuous monitoring, and data analytics capabilities that improve effectiveness, reduce manual effort, and enable earlier risk detection.
• Develop executive reporting for the CAO, CFO, and Audit Committee, and establish governance, training, and guidance for control owners across all global business units and enterprise-wide risk visibility.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 13+ years progressive experience in SOX, internal controls, internal audit, or risk management in public companies, including large-scale SOX programs within complex, multi-entity, and globally regulated environments.
• 6+ years people leadership experience building and developing teams.
• Deep knowledge of SOX 404, PCAOB standards, and COSO, with expertise designing controls across finance, operations, and digital asset processes with experience in public company audits and regulatory examinations in fast-paced fintech environments.
• CPA, CA, CIA, CISA, CRMA preferred.
• Demonstrated ability influencing executives and driving cross-functional initiatives in high-growth technology or financial services.
• Experience with ERP systems, workflow tools, data analytics, and control automation technologies.
• Uses generative AI responsibly with human oversight to improve efficiency, quality, and decision-making and at scale in.

Position ID: (P76709)

Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)). 

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):

$205,785—$242,100 USD

• Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
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