CLEAR's mission is to create frictionless experiences where every day has that feeling. With more than 30+ million passionate members and hundreds of partners around the world, CLEAR’s identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. The Senior Internal Auditor will take a key role in strengthening CLEAR’s internal control environment and ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements.
Requirements
- Drive adoption of AI/automation in SOX testing by identifying opportunities to leverage analytics, scripts, or AI-based tools to streamline control testing, risk assessments, and documentation workflows.
- Validate AI-generated outputs used in SOX or audit processes to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with internal policies and regulatory standards; maintain proper audit trails and exception handling protocols.
Responsibilities
- Lead SOX 404 compliance activities, including risk assessments, process walkthroughs, and control design evaluations across key business processes.
- Support or lead audits across key operational areas of the business, including member enrollment and verification, airport and travel operations, identity and access management, partnership integrations, product development and engineering, data privacy and security, customer service operations, and third-party/vendor risk management.
- Support Enterprise Risk Management initiatives as needed. This will include gaining an understanding of the processes, identifying risks and controls, evaluating the processes, and making recommendations.
- Coordinate and execute SOX testing of internal controls (design and operating effectiveness), ensuring timely documentation, and remediation follow-up.
- Evaluate new or evolving business processes for SOX readiness, including new system implementations.
- Develop and deliver training and guidance to control owners on SOX requirements and control best practices.
- Collaborate with Accounting, Finance, Tax, Engineering, IT, and Operations to identify control gaps and recommend improvements.
Other
- The Senior Internal Auditor will take a key role in strengthening CLEAR’s internal control environment and ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements.
- This role will report into the Director of Internal Audit within the Finance organization and is integral to the company’s internal control environment and ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements.
- The role requires excellent cross-functional collaboration, effective communication, and the ability to proactively identify control improvement opportunities in a scalable and efficient manner.
- This role will work closely with the Corporate Controller, business process and control owners, and our external auditors.
- 4-6+ years of relevant experience, including risk management or recent public accounting or consulting experience focusing on SOX/internal controls.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, or related field.
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