Job Purpose

This role is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading financial compliance, internal controls (SOX), audit coordination, and tax activities. The position acts as a key advisor to Accounting & Finance leadership and business partners to ensure financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and effective control environments, while identifying opportunities to strengthen process and reduce risk.

Key Accountabilities

SOX & Internal Controls:
• Lead HTA SOX PLC (Process Level Controls) compliance, ensuring timely completion of testing in alignment with corporate requirements.
• Partner with Accounting, Operations (LOBs), and external SOX auditors to evaluate control effectiveness and address identified deficiencies.
• Drive development, tracking, and closure of remediation plans across departments.
• Maintain Accounting SOX documentation and support continuous improvement of control design and execution
• Serve as a key member of the SOX governance structure, providing regular updates to leadership and executive stakeholders.
Audit & Financial Compliance:
• Serve as primary liaison with external and internal auditors (e.g. KPMG, EY, Internal Audit) leading coordination of annual audits.
• Coordinate the preparation, review, and audit support of financial statement disclosures and footnotes, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and alignment with US GAAP and IFRS requirements.
• Analyze and explain financial statement variances, ensuring alignment with underlying business activity
• Monitor and implement changes related to US GAAP and IFRS, Providing guidance on accounting treatment and policy updates.
• Support ongoing strengthening of financial reporting processes and controls.
Tax Compliance & Regulatory Coordination:
• Lead coordination of corporate income tax activities in partnership with external providers (e.g. EY).
• Manage tax audit activities, including data gathering, analysis, and response development.
• Support preparation of tax provisions and required filings, including estimated payments across jurisdictions.
• Oversee the end-to-end sales and use tax process, including data aggregation, reconciliation, compliance reporting, and timely remittance of tax liabilities.
• Compile and submit mandatory governmental and statistical surveys to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance.
• Prepare required documentation (e.g., CAP files) to support timely and accurate filings.
• Advise internal stakeholders' tax-related considerations and opportunities for efficient business structuring.
Financial Review & Governance:
• Perform supervisory review of financial transactions, journal entries, and monthly closing documentation in accordance with SOX and accounting standards.
• Validate accuracy and completeness of financial reporting, including intercompany activity and profit analysis.
• Partner with Accounting and business teams to review financial results, identify key drivers, and validate variance explanations.
• Support governance over management reporting (e.g. BRM, RP2) to ensure consistency and integrity.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Minimum Educational Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting ,Finance,Economics or related field or equivalent relevant expereince
• CPA or similar certification is preferred.

Minimum Experience :

• 3+ years of experience in accounting, financial reporting, audit, or compliance-related roles.

Other Job-Specific Skills :

• Experience with SOX compliance and internal controls frameworks
• Strong understanding of US GAAP & IFRS;
• Working knowledge of corporate income tax processes and regulations.
• Strong financial analytical skills with ability to connect balance sheet and income statement drivers
• Experience working with external auditors and cross-functional business partners
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial systems (SAP experience preferred).
• Ability to translate technical requirements into practical business guidance
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Exposure to or interest in leveraging automation and AI-enabled tools (e.g data analysis, reporting, and workflow optimization) to improve efficiency and insight generation.

Job Dimensions

No. of Direct Reports: 0

No. of Indirect Reports: 0

Financial Dimensions: (e.g. annual revenue, operating budget)

Decisions Expected

• Identify and proritize SOX control deficiencies and recommend appropriate remediation strategies.
• Provide gudiance on accounting treatement, control design, and compliance requirements
• Evaluate financial reporting accuarcy and determine appropiate escalation risks or issues.
• Recommend improvements to enhance efficiencies, effectiveness, and reliability of financial processes.

Working Conditions

• Office environment with limited lifting or physical requirements
• very limited travel requirements
• OT as necessary to meet deadlines/due dates at peak monthly financial closing periods and audit/audit-testing cycles.

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards:

• Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
• Paid Overtime
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution
• Relocation assistance (if eligible)

Career Growth:

• Advancement Opportunities
• Career Mobility
• Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning
• Training and Development programs

Additional Offerings:

• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Elder Care Support
• Wellbeing Program
• Community Service and Engagement Programs
• Product Programs