Manager, SOX

Get to Know the Team

The SOX team is responsible for:

• Ensure the Group's compliance with SOX regulations, and good internal control practices
• Ensure financial policies, work processes, and internal controls in place, and operating effectively
• Safeguarding of company assets through mitigating financial risks and exposures
• Continuous improvements on financial operation through implementing workable solutions

We work with multiple business partners to understand and improve internal controls. Our team is made up of intellectually curious professionals who keenly apply their knowledge and experience in a dynamic setting they create.

If you are looking for the opportunity to shape the control environment at a fast pace and dynamic technology firm, then you should join our team!

Get to Know the Role

We are looking for an experienced SOX Manager to join our SOX team in Kuala Lumpur. You have a solid SOX and Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) experience with a background in banking and financial services.

You will lead the risk and control assessment. This assessment will focus on complex and technology-driven processes. You will ensure that controls are scalable and adequately designed to address three main areas: financial reporting risks, compliance effectiveness, and solid cross-functional alignment.

You will report to the Group Manager, SOX and be base at our Malaysia office in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Lead the SOX program on assigned processes – including process walkthroughs, risk assessments, control design assessment, control operating effectiveness test, control deficiencies assessment and remediation.
• Maintain the ICFR framework, including relevant IT Application Controls (ITACs), and control over reports and information used in financial reporting.
• Assess financial reporting risks and controls across different processes and products in the banking and financial services sector. This includes risks arising from complex, automated, and system-driven processes, such as deposits, loans, securities, etc.
• Review controls over key accounting estimates and judgments, with a focus on expected credit losses (ECL) – including controls over data, assumptions, model outputs, overlays, journal entries, and disclosures.
• Partner with Business Units, Finance, Product, and Operations to understand end-to-end processes and influence control design for new products, systems, and business changes.
• Advise on risk and control considerations for projects, system implementations, and changes affecting financial reporting.
• Travel approximately 5% for regional coordination and walkthroughs.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Accountancy, Finance, or a related field.
• 8–10 years of relevant experience in SOX, audit, financial controls, or risk advisory.
• Experienced in banking or financial services, including hands-on work with bank financial reporting controls, and ECL under IFRS 9 (especially controls over the ECL estimation and reporting process).
• Familiarity with ICFR and experience assessing and testing manual, ITAC, and key-report controls.
• Experienced performing detailed financial reporting risk assessments and evaluating controls over complex, automated processes.
• Understand system-driven processes and connect operational flows to financial reporting risks.
• Worked in a progressive and evolving environment, manage priorities and deadlines, adapt to changing requirements, details oriented, and maintain good work quality.
• Good command of English, spoken and written
• Critically think and resolve issues, and work independently while maintaining quality standards.

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave , and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.