SOX Analyst

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Date: Jun 19, 2025

Location: Lake Zurich, IL, US, 60047

Company: accobrands

 

Achieve. Create. Collaborate. Organize.
Essential brands. Innovative products. Smart investment. Winning team. This is what you will find at ACCO Brands. We are passionate about building a culture that is committed to the success of our employees. If you are looking for an organization that offers rewarding opportunities and is dedicated to team orientation, learning and development, and flourishes with success, we invite you to be a part of building our company for the future. 

Job Summary

ACCO Brands is seeking an Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Analyst for the Finance team based in Lake Zurich, IL. The Analyst will work as part of a team responsible for global oversight of internal controls for ACCO Brands Corporation.

Responsibilities

  • Support the organization to ensure appropriate controls are in place that are designed and operating effectively.
  • Assist efforts of the SOX Compliance team to maintain consistency over our global Risk & Control Matrix (“RCM”) and implement best practices.
  • Ensure business process control flow charts are up-to-date in BlackLine Compliance.
  • Manage BlackLine Task Management as a repository for business process control evidence.
  • Work with corporate functions to support the analysis and review of entity-wide controls.
  • Coordinate with local SOX contacts and control owners to analyze and identify IPE (Information Provided by the Entity) and automated controls.
  • Support the annual certification process to establish our global RCM in BlackLine Compliance as well as integrate any updates during the year.
  • Effectively partner with audit to ensure various requirements are met for the completion of the audit.
  • Assist Internal Audit with interim and rollforward ITGC testing.
  • Admin support for BlackLine Compliance and our ITGC SharePoint site.
  • Support automated control testing, SOC-1 reviews, and other testing as required.
  • Ad hoc projects and other duties as determined by manager.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
  • 3+ years related experience
  • Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley IT compliance and/or audit
  • Proficiency with Excel and Word
  • Self-starter with good organizational skills to prioritize workload and meet deadlines
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing
  • Local Candidates only:  Must be available to work Hybrid (T,W) from our Lake Zurich, IL Headquarters

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Salary Range: $70,000 - $90,000

About Us:

You know our brands. You love our brands. You just may not know they are ours.

If you have touched a PowerA® gaming controller, a Five Star® notebook, a Swingline® stapler, a Quartet® dry erase board, or a Kensington® computer mouse, you have touched part of ACCO Brands Corporation. With annual revenues of over $2 Billion, ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO) designs, markets, manufactures and sells branded academic, consumer and business products globally. The power of our brands, our unmatched global customer reach, and our strategic market strengths put us in a position to achieve global leadership and growth. We're proud of our long history of industry leadership and innovation and are focused on delivering exceptional value to our customers by providing unique, cutting-edge, branded products.

Apply now and build a successful future with ACCO Brands.

Click here to learn more about our employee benefits. 

More information about ACCO Brands, the Home of Great Brands Built by Great People, can be found at www.accobrands.com.

 

Equal Opportunity Employer

At ACCO Brands, we are committed to providing an environment of fairness and mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical and mental disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. ACCO Brands believes that a diverse and inclusive work environment is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

 

AODA

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities will be provided in all parts of the recruiting process as required under the ACCO Brands Canada AODA policy.  Applicants are asked to make their needs known in advance.


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