AVEVA

IT GRC SOX Specialist – Regulatory Frameworks

AVEVA

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cambridge • United Kingdom

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Oracle

About the role

  • Support the IT GRC team in embedding effective IT governance, risk, and compliance across the organisation.
  • Initial focus on SOX IT General Controls (ITGC) and IT Application Controls (ITAC) design, operating effectiveness.
  • Partner closely with IT, Security, Finance, Internal Audit, and External Audit to ensure controls are well designed, consistently operated, appropriately evidenced, and continuously improved.
  • Drive a pragmatic, audit-ready control environment across core platforms and services (including Oracle and Salesforce).
  • Support broader regulatory and assurance initiatives where applicable (e.g. EU AI Act).

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in IT audit, IT risk, IT compliance, SOX IT controls, or a combined GRC/assurance role.
  • Proven hands-on experience designing, operating, and managing SOX ITGC and, where applicable, ITAC.
  • Strong understanding of how IT risks and control failures impact financial reporting and transaction flows.
  • Demonstrated experience producing reviewer-ready documentation for audits (risk and control matrices, narratives, process flows, test evidence).
  • Hands-on experience managing internal and external audit interactions, including end-to-end evidence coordination.
  • Ability to document, explain, and coach others on business process, system mapping, and evidencing expectations.
  • Working knowledge of major frameworks and standards such as COSO, COBIT, ISO 27001, and NIST, and the ability to rationalise overlaps.
  • Strong understanding of access governance, segregation of duties, privileged access, change management, and IT operations controls.
  • Highly effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders across IT, Finance, and Audit.
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
Benefits
  • Flexible benefits fund
  • Emergency leave days
  • Adoption leave
  • 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
  • Pension
  • Life cover
  • Private medical insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Education assistance program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
IT auditIT riskIT complianceSOX IT controlsSOX ITGCITACrisk and control matricesprocess flowstest evidenceaccess governance
Soft Skills
written communicationverbal communicationinfluencing stakeholderscoachingdocumentationexplanationsystem mappingcollaborationorganizational skillsproblem-solving
Certifications
ISO 27001NIST