Job Description:
At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money— we're here to move our global customers forward.
We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders. About the Role:
Remitly's Governance and Control Assurance (GCA) team ensures the integrity of the financial systems that millions of customers and partners rely on. As a Senior Technical Program Manager for SOX Control Design & Assurance, you will be our subject matter expert for IT general controls (the controls over access, change management, and operations of systems that support financial reporting) and own the design and lifecycle of our IT SOX controls. You will work with Engineering, IT, Finance, and internal and external auditors to make controls clear, testable, efficient, and increasingly automated.
You Will:
Own SOX control design and lifecycle: Design new controls and redesign existing ones as regulations, systems, and risks change. Manage intake of new control requests, assess controls and evidence requests for relevance, accuracy, and duplication, and review the control library on a regular cadence.
Lead our IT SOX compliance program: Serve as our expert on IT general controls, develop and maintain the annual SOX program plan, and keep the SOX control inventory in Optro accurate. Work with internal and external auditors on scoping, risk assessment, walkthroughs, and audit interviews.
Automate and mature controls: Identify controls and evidence collection that can be automated, and partner with our engineering team to build them. Move controls from manual to automated, efficient operation, and improve workflows and templates in Optro, our governance, risk, and compliance platform.
Oversee control execution: Own or oversee key recurring controls such as emergency (break-glass) access, employee terminations, and periodic user access reviews. Launch and quality-check monthly, quarterly, and annual control tasks, and lead investigations and impact assessments of potential or confirmed control deficiencies.
Advise on SOX impact: Evaluate new system implementations, migrations, and architecture changes for SOX impact, and answer control owner and engineering questions on compliant design.
Keep us audit-ready: Keep policies, process narratives, and control matrices current, and give leadership real-time dashboards on program status, control health, and risk.
Communicate and enable: Run communication plans so every control owner understands their responsibilities and expectations. Build and deliver SOX and control design training for analysts, control owners, and Engineering and IT teams.
As you grow in the role: Build self-service tools and templates so partner teams can design and update controls and evidence themselves, and define control health and maturity metrics that you report on over time.
You Have:
A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Deep expertise in IT SOX and IT general controls, including hands-on control design (defining control objectives, attributes, and testability, and distinguishing preventive from detective and manual from automated controls).
Experience managing control inventories and audit evidence in a governance,…