Financial Compliance Advisor

The Financial Compliance Advisor at Honda is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading SOX compliance, internal controls, audit coordination, and tax activities. The role involves advising leadership on financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and process improvement. Key responsibilities include managing SOX testing, supporting annual audits, ensuring US GAAP and IFRS alignment, and overseeing tax compliance. Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field, with at least 3 years’ experience in accounting, financial reporting, audit, or compliance. Strong analytical skills, proficiency in Excel, and experience with SAP are required. CPA certification is preferred. The position is office-based with limited travel and requires advanced organisational and communication skills. The Financial Compliance Advisor at Honda plays a pivotal role in ensuring the company’s financial integrity and regulatory compliance. This senior individual contributor leads SOX, internal controls, audit coordination, and tax activities, acting as a key advisor to Accounting & Finance leadership. The role is responsible for maintaining effective control environments, supporting continuous improvement, and identifying opportunities to strengthen processes and reduce risk. Honda offers a competitive base salary, paid overtime, regional bonuses, industry-leading benefits, paid time off, 401K with company match, relocation assistance, and various wellbeing and career development programmes. The position is based in the United States and supports Honda’s commitment to innovation and employee growth.

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda
Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose

This role is a senior individual contributor responsible for leading financial compliance, internal controls (SOX), audit coordination, and tax activities. The position acts as a key advisor to Accounting & Finance leadership and business partners to ensure financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and effective control environments, while identifying opportunities to strengthen process and reduce risk.

Key Accountabilities

SOX & Internal Controls:

• Lead HTA SOX PLC (Process Level Controls) compliance, ensuring timely completion of testing in alignment with corporate requirements.

• Partner with Accounting, Operations (LOBs), and external SOX auditors to evaluate control effectiveness and address identified deficiencies.

• Drive development, tracking, and closure of remediation plans across departments.

• Maintain Accounting SOX documentation and support continuous improvement of control design and execution

• Serve as a key member of the SOX governance structure, providing regular updates to leadership and executive stakeholders.
  Audit & Financial Compliance:

• Serve as primary liaison with external and internal auditors (e.g. KPMG, EY, Internal Audit) leading coordination of annual audits.

• Coordinate the preparation, review, and audit support of financial statement disclosures and footnotes, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and alignment with US GAAP and IFRS requirements.

• Analyze and explain financial statement variances, ensuring alignment with underlying business activity

• Monitor and implement changes related to US GAAP and IFRS, Providing guidance on accounting treatment and policy updates.

• Support ongoing strengthening of financial reporting processes and controls.
  Tax Compliance & Regulatory Coordination:

• Lead coordination of corporate income tax activities in partnership with external providers (e.g. EY).

• Manage tax audit activities, including data gathering, analysis, and response development.

• Support preparation of tax provisions and required filings, including estimated payments across jurisdictions.

• Oversee the end-to-end sales and use tax process, including data aggregation, reconciliation, compliance reporting, and timely remittance of tax liabilities.

• Compile and submit mandatory governmental and statistical surveys to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance.

• Prepare required documentation (e.g., CAP files) to support timely and accurate filings.

• Advise internal stakeholders’ tax-related considerations and opportunities for efficient business structuring.
  Financial Review & Governance:

• Perform supervisory review of financial transactions, journal entries, and monthly closing documentation in accordance with SOX and accounting standards.

• Validate accuracy and completeness of financial reporting, including intercompany activity and profit analysis.

• Partner with Accounting and business teams to review financial results, identify key drivers, and validate variance explanations.

• Support governance over management reporting (e.g. BRM, RP2) to ensure consistency and integrity.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills Minimum Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting ,Finance,Economics or related field or equivalent relevant expereince
• CPA or similar certification is preferred.

Minimum Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in accounting, financial reporting, audit, or compliance-related roles.

Other Job-Specific Skills:

• Experience with SOX compliance and internal controls frameworks
• Strong understanding of US GAAP & IFRS;
• Working knowledge of corporate income tax processes and regulations.
• Strong financial analytical skills with ability to connect balance sheet and income statement drivers
• Experience working with external auditors and cross-functional business partners
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial systems (SAP experience preferred).
• Ability to translate technical requirements into practical business guidance
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Exposure to or interest in leveraging automation and AI-enabled tools (e.g data analysis, reporting, and workflow optimization) to improve efficiency and insight generation.

Job Dimensions No. of Direct Reports:

0

No. of Indirect Reports:

0

Financial Dimensions:

(e.g. annual revenue, operating budget)

Decisions Expected

• Identify and proritize SOX control deficiencies and recommend appropriate remediation strategies.
• Provide gudiance on accounting treatement, control design, and compliance requirements
• Evaluate financial reporting accuarcy and determine appropiate escalation risks or issues.
• Recommend improvements to enhance efficiencies, effectiveness, and reliability of financial processes.

Working Conditions

• Office environment with limited lifting or physical requirements
• very limited travel requirements
• OT as necessary to meet deadlines/due dates at peak monthly financial closing periods and audit/audit-testing cycles.

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?Total Rewards:

• Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
• Paid Overtime
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution
• Relocation assistance (if eligible)

Career Growth:

• Advancement Opportunities
• Career Mobility
• Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning
• Training and Development programs

Additional Offerings:

• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Elder Care Support
• Wellbeing Program
• Community Service and Engagement Programs
• Product Programs

Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.

Responsibilities:

• Lead HTA SOX PLC (Process Level Controls) compliance, ensuring timely completion of testing in alignment with corporate requirements.
• Partner with Accounting, Operations, and external SOX auditors to evaluate control effectiveness and address identified deficiencies.
• Drive development, tracking, and closure of remediation plans across departments.
• Maintain Accounting SOX documentation and support continuous improvement of control design and execution.
• Serve as a key member of the SOX governance structure, providing regular updates to leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Serve as primary liaison with external and internal auditors, leading coordination of annual audits.
• Coordinate the preparation, review, and audit support of financial statement disclosures and footnotes, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and alignment with US GAAP and IFRS requirements.
• Monitor and implement changes related to US GAAP and IFRS, providing guidance on accounting treatment and policy updates.
• Lead coordination of corporate income tax activities in partnership with external providers and manage tax audit activities. Skills
• Experience with SOX compliance and internal controls frameworks is required.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP and IFRS is essential.
• Working knowledge of corporate income tax processes and regulations is necessary.
• Strong financial analytical skills with the ability to connect balance sheet and income statement drivers are required.
• Experience working with external auditors and cross-functional business partners is important.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial systems, with SAP experience preferred, is required.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into practical business guidance is expected.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines are necessary.
• Exposure to or interest in leveraging automation and AI-enabled tools for efficiency and insight generation is desirable. Education
• A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience is required.
• CPA or similar certification is preferred.