IT Financial Compliance Senior Manager

About the team + role

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. 

The Financial Compliance team’s mission is to establish and maintain the company’s financial and regulatory compliance, including requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) and related frameworks over internal controls, IT general controls, and financial reporting. This team works closely with Engineering, Security, Finance, and external auditors to ensure systems, processes, and data meet regulatory expectations while supporting business growth!

As an IT Financial Compliance Senior Manager, you will evaluate systems, databases, and processes to ensure strong control design and effective operation across infrastructure, change management, and financial data pipelines. You will partner closely with engineering and business teams to identify control gaps, implement practical solutions, and support compliance with SOX and other regulatory requirements. This role plays a key part in ensuring financial reporting integrity and audit readiness while contributing to scalable compliance practices across the organization.

This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA, New York, NY, and Chicago, IL offices, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.

What you’ll do

• Design and maintain IT infrastructure controls, including environment segregation, access pathways, configuration baselines, and logging and monitoring aligned to SOX and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Platform, Infrastructure, and Security teams to align system architecture and operational processes with control objectives and audit evidence expectations.
• Assess new systems, tools, and services (such as cloud platforms, data stores, and security tooling) to identify control gaps and define remediation actions.
• Lead IT SOX readiness and integration effort for new acquisitions.
• Perform IT SOX assessments ahead of product launches and system upgrades/migrations to ensure timely compliance.
• Lead IT change management and production access governance, including approvals, testing, deployments, rollback procedures, emergency changes, and least-privilege access controls across production environments.
• Map end-to-end data flows supporting financial and regulatory reporting, identifying key interfaces, transformations, and control points to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Partner with Data Engineering and Finance teams to design and implement controls over data reconciliation, monitoring, and retention across reporting pipelines.
• Execute and oversee testing of IT general controls and application controls, evaluate deficiencies, identify root causes, and coordinate remediation with engineering and operations teams.
• Prepare and maintain control documentation, process narratives, flowcharts, and audit evidence to support internal and external audits.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in IT controls during audits and translate regulatory requirements into clear, technical implementation guidance for engineering teams.
• Identify opportunities to automate control execution and evidence collection and contribute to standardizing control frameworks, tooling, and documentation across the organization.

What you bring

• 8+ years of experience in IT audit, IT risk, IT compliance, infrastructure engineering, or a related field, with strong exposure to SOX IT general controls and application controls.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure), networking, identity and access management, and modern deployment practices including CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code.
• Hands-on experience with change management processes and tools, including version control workflows, ticketing systems, release management, and emergency change procedures.
• Experience designing or testing controls over data pipelines, including data transformations, reconciliations, and monitoring practices.
• Proven ability to collaborate with engineering teams to implement practical control solutions and explain control requirements in technical terms.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives and deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with experience working with external auditors and senior stakeholders.

What we offer

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
• Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• Top Tier benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents.
• Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund that gives eligible US employees the opportunity to invest in a private employee fund that provides exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds.
• Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not. 
• Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
• Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits.
• Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
• Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.