Micron is seeking a
Director, Global SOX to lead the company's global SOX compliance program and internal controls over financial reporting. Reporting to the Chief Accounting Officer, this role will provide strategic leadership over the design, execution, and continuous improvement of Micron's SOX program across Finance, IT, and global business processes.
The Director will serve as a key advisor and liaison to executive leadership, PwC, Risk Advisory Services, Finance, IT, and business control owners. This leader will drive consistent, scalable, and effective control practices; strengthen SOX governance; identify emerging risk areas; and advance process simplification, automation, and AI-enabled opportunities as Micron's business, systems, and finance processes continue to evolve.
Success in this role requires strong technical SOX/internal controls expertise, executive communication, global stakeholder influence, disciplined program execution, people leadership, and a continuous improvement mindset.
Responsibilities- Lead global program management of Micron's Finance and IT SOX Compliance Program, including planning, scoping, risk assessment, execution, reporting, and remediation oversight.
- Oversee the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting by identifying, assessing, and addressing corporate and process-level risks.
- Partner with Finance, IT, business process owners, Risk Advisory Services, and external auditors to ensure effective control design, monitoring, testing, and remediation.
- Prepare and present SOX Compliance updates and key memos for Executive Management and the Audit Committee, including risk assessment, scoping, SOC 1 analysis, and control deficiency aggregation.
- Lead assessment of control deficiencies, root cause analysis, remediation plans, and management action tracking to ensure timely and sustainable resolution.
- Drive consistency, scalability, and efficiency across global SOX processes, documentation, walkthroughs, controls testing, and audit support.
- Identify finance workflows that are amenable to AI-enabled solutions, automation, or advanced analytics; develop use cases, partner with stakeholders on implementation, and see solutions through to completion to improve efficiency, data quality, and decision support.
- Partner with Finance Systems, IT, and control owners to streamline controls, increase automation, improve evidence quality, and enhance SOX execution at scale.
- Monitor evolving industry risks, regulatory expectations, business changes, and system transformations to ensure Micron's control environment remains effective and fit for purpose.
- Lead, develop, and engage a high-performing global SOX team, building capability in SOX, internal controls, audit readiness, process improvement, automation, and stakeholder partnership.
Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or related field.
- 15+ years of progressive experience in SOX compliance, internal controls, external audit, internal audit, accounting, finance, or related disciplines.
- 5+ years of leadership experience, including experience leading teams, programs, or cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of SOX Section 404, ICFR, COSO framework, financial reporting risks, control design, and operating effectiveness.
- Experience leading SOX or internal controls programs in a large, complex, global, publicly traded company.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, drive alignment across functions, and resolve complex control or audit matters.
- Strong communication, executive presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience partnering with Finance, Accounting, IT, Internal Audit/Risk Advisory, external auditors, and business process owners.
Preferred Qualifications - CPA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent professional certification.
- Experience in semiconductor, technology, manufacturing, or other complex multinational environments.
- Experience with ERP implementations, finance transformation, global process redesign, or significant system and control changes.
- Familiarity with SOX workflow, documentation, GRC, analytics, or reporting tools such as Workiva, AuditBoard, SAP GRC, Power BI, or similar platforms.
- Proven track record of driving process simplification, control automation, audit efficiency, and scalable governance practices.
- Strong ability to operate in a fast-paced, matrixed, and evolving global environment.
- Working knowledge of AI-enabled productivity, automation, and analytics tools, such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude CoWork, GitHub Copilot, Power Automate, Power BI AI capabilities, or comparable enterprise-approved generative AI tools, with the ability to evaluate fit-for-purpose solutions.
