IT Financial Compliance Senior Manager
Chicago · Menlo Park · New York, NY · 8+ years experience · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Location
- Chicago · Menlo Park · New York, NY
About the role
- As an IT Financial Compliance Senior Manager, you will evaluate systems, databases, and processes to ensure strong control design and effective operation across infrastructure, change management, and financial data pipelines.
- You will partner closely with engineering and business teams to identify control gaps, implement practical solutions, and support compliance with SOX and other regulatory requirements.
- This role plays a key part in ensuring financial reporting integrity and audit readiness while contributing to scalable compliance practices across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain IT infrastructure controls, including environment segregation, access pathways, configuration baselines, and logging and monitoring aligned to SOX and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with Platform, Infrastructure, and Security teams to align system architecture and operational processes with control objectives and audit evidence expectations.
- Assess new systems, tools, and services (such as cloud platforms, data stores, and security tooling) to identify control gaps and define remediation actions.
- Lead IT SOX readiness and integration effort for new acquisitions.
- Perform IT SOX assessments ahead of product launches and system upgrades/migrations to ensure timely compliance.
- Lead IT change management and production access governance, including approvals, testing, deployments, rollback procedures, emergency changes, and least-privilege access controls across production environments.
- Map end-to-end data flows supporting financial and regulatory reporting, identifying key interfaces, transformations, and control points to ensure completeness and accuracy.
- Partner with Data Engineering and Finance teams to design and implement controls over data reconciliation, monitoring, and retention across reporting pipelines.
- Execute and oversee testing of IT general controls and application controls, evaluate deficiencies, identify root causes, and coordinate remediation with engineering and operations teams.
- Prepare and maintain control documentation, process narratives, flowcharts, and audit evidence to support internal and external audits.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in IT audit, IT risk, IT compliance, infrastructure engineering, or a related field, with strong exposure to SOX IT general controls and application controls.
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure), networking, identity and access management, and modern deployment practices including CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code.
- Hands-on experience with change management processes and tools, including version control workflows, ticketing systems, release management, and emergency change procedures.
- Experience designing or testing controls over data pipelines, including data transformations, reconciliations, and monitoring practices.
- Proven ability to collaborate with engineering teams to implement practical control solutions and explain control requirements in technical terms.
- Strong analytical, documentation, and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives and deadlines.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with experience working with external auditors and senior stakeholders.
Benefits
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
- Top Tier benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
- Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund that gives eligible US employees the opportunity to invest in a private employee fund that provides exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds.
- Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not.
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
Workplace
- In-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.
Skills
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure-as-code
