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Legora is an AI-native legal workspace company serving 1,000+ customers across 50+ countries, including major law firms and enterprises. The company has scaled to $100M+ ARR and operates teams across Europe, North America, and APAC.
You will own the Business Process (BP) SOX controls program as Internal Audit Manager, reporting to Finance and Internal Audit leadership. This is a high-ownership role focused on building a modern, scalable controls program from the ground up rather than maintaining an existing one.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the end-to-end risk assessment process and translating it into a prioritized controls testing plan
- Designing new testing processes, workpaper templates, and documentation frameworks from scratch
- Coordinating with external audit and co-source partners on timelines, deliverables, and open items
- Leading control walkthroughs with process owners across the business
- Assessing control deficiencies for severity and root cause, driving remediation to completion
- Developing and delivering training to control owners and stakeholders on control design and testing expectations
- Implementing AI-driven and automated solutions to reduce manual testing and improve efficiency
- Collaborating with Finance, IT, and business stakeholders as a trusted advisor
You will work closely with Finance, process owners, external audit, and co-source partners to build a rigorous, efficient business process controls program. The role emphasizes ownership, modern technology application (particularly AI), and building scalable processes.
The company offers an in-person environment at their Union Square office with company-provided lunch, global collaboration opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package including medical/dental/vision, generous parental leave, unlimited PTO, 401(k) with company match, and various voluntary benefits.
REQUIREMENTS:
- CPA, CIA, or similar certification (required)
- Big 4 or co-source firm experience (required)
- 5+ years of experience in internal audit, SOX/internal controls, or related risk/compliance function, including experience managing or mentoring others (required)
- Demonstrated experience building or significantly enhancing a controls program or testing methodology from scratch (required)
- Strong track record managing external audit and/or co-source relationships (required)
- Hands-on experience performing and overseeing walkthroughs, testing, and deficiency evaluation (required)
- Proficiency with Auditboard, Vanta, NetSuite, Google Docs/Workspace, major LLM providers (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini), Salesforce, and Workday (required)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to explain control concepts to non-audit stakeholders (required)
- High degree of ownership and comfort building process where none exists (required)
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience building or scaling a controls function through rapid growth
- Prior experience applying AI or automation tools within audit or testing workflow
- Experience with data analytics or continuous monitoring tools (SQL, Power BI, Tableau, ACL)
- Experience designing and delivering training programs to non-audit stakeholders
- Background in SOX-compliant or public-company-readiness environment
