Description
Role Overview

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 up-to-date 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 qualified 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.

Scope & Scale
Testing coverage spans Ford's global process landscape across multiple business units and geographies
Regular engagement with process owners and stakeholders across multiple time zones

Direct exposure to senior stakeholders, including process owners and functional leadership, in addition to day-to-day coordination with global IC teams





Responsibilities
Key Roles and 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 des

📌 Internal Control Analyst Chennai
🏢 Ford Motor
📍 Chennai