Description
You'll drive automation, AI, and data analytics-led SOX control testing across Ford's global process landscape — spanning multiple business units, geographies, and process areas — leveraging modern data analytics, automation enablement, and Generative AI tools to streamline "Smart Review" execution, eliminate manual testing effort, and enhance audit coverage. This role suits an experienced, forward-thinking professional looking to bridge the gap between risk compliance and digital modernization. Beyond core compliance testing, you'll need an agile mindset — flexibly adapting to ad hoc management initiatives, pilot projects, and cross-functional problem solving as business needs evolve.

Responsibilities
- SOX Control Testing: Independently execute SOX-mandated control testing across Ford's global process landscape, ensuring strict adherence to compliance timelines and quality benchmarks, applying sound qualified judgment built from prior audit experience.
- Smart Reviews:



Conduct data-driven "Smart Reviews"—leveraging data analytics and AI-assisted pattern and anomaly detection where applicable—to proactively identify control gaps, process bottlenecks, and operational inefficiencies.
- Data Analytics & Automation Translation: Analyze manual control test steps, apply data analytics techniques to identify testing patterns and exceptions, and translate manual steps into automated workflows in partnership with transformation teams.
- Critical Evaluation & Root Cause Analysis: Apply critical thinking to challenge surface-level explanations, evaluate control design effectiveness, and drive investigations to true root cause — including professionally challenging initial explanations to validate the actual root cause.
- Insightful Communication: Articulate complex control gaps, system workarounds, and root causes clearly to global process owners and senior stakeholders, including defending testing conclusions when challenged.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:

📌 Internal Control Analyst (Chennai)
🏢 Ford Motor
📍 Chennai