Head of SOX and Internal Controls

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase. As the Head of SOX and Internal Controls, you will join Coinbase's Accounting organization within Finance to lead and strengthen the company’s global SOX control environment across all in-scope entities and processes. As Coinbase scales and expands internationally, this leader will ensure a robust, sustainable internal control framework that supports accurate financial reporting and compliance, while serving as a key advisor to senior leadership and enterprise risk management. You will serve as the enterprise owner for SOX business process controls, partnering across Accounting, Finance, Operations, Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Internal Audit to protect the integrity of financial reporting. What you'll do: Own the enterprise-wide SOX business process control framework, including scoping, risk assessment, control design standards, and documentation requirements across all in-scope processes. Lead annual SOX risk assessment, materiality determinations, and design and implementation of key and non-key controls, including manual, automated, and IT-dependent controls. Partner with Controllership, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Operations, Compliance, Legal, Product, and Engineering to embed controls into order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report, revenue recognition, payroll, treasury, and digital asset safeguarding as well as ensuring consistent control design across emerging products and jurisdictions and cross-functional accountability. Drive timely remediation of control deficiencies by designing sustainable corrective actions and serving as primary liaison wi th Internal Audit and external auditors during SOX testing, walkthroughs, and evidence requests and ensuring control sustainability post-remediation. Build scalable control automation, continuous monitoring, and data analytics capabilities that improve effectiveness, reduce manual effort, and enable earlier risk detection.