Sr. Financial Controls Advisor (IT)

Job Summary

The Sr. Financial Controls Advisor (IT) partners with leaders and stakeholders across the company to provide dedicated financial risk and controls expertise.  This position will be a trusted advisor to business areas to ensure the health and efficiency of the internal control environment.  The position will also be responsible for making valuable recommendations to improve processes and to strengthen the design and execution of controls.  This position plays a key role in preparing the functional areas for the internal and external audit processes.

The Sr. Financial Controls Advisor (IT) will report to the Director, Financial  Controls and will be embedded within assigned functional teams in order to build partnership and trust with those teams.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify risks in the IT related financial reporting process and ensure appropriate risk-based controls are in place to mitigate those risks
• Evaluating the effectiveness of internal controls over data management, application processing, physical and logical security, systems acquisition and development, system and network infrastructure, change management, computer operations, and production support
• Provide consultation and advice to IT functional teams in the design and execution of controls
• Assessing business data and IT infrastructure for key information security and cybersecurity risks -
• Communicate with and educate process owners on the benefit and importance of internal controls
• Take a hands-on approach in the development of control documentation. This position will often prepare drafts of control language and attributes for management’s review
• Develop a detailed understanding of business processes and prepare various documents to communicate understanding to team members and internal/external auditors
• Act as a point of contact with internal/external audit to resolve questions and issues with respect to internal controls.
• Develop strong working relationships with process owners and their teams
• Drive continued development and building of a risk management culture through coordination of employee awareness and training programs that emphasize the importance of risk management
• Partner with process and control owners in control gap remediation
• Make recommendations on the decommissioning of obsolete controls associated with the significant changes in process due to the Modernization initiative

Experience and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 5+ years of progressive experience auditing internal controls, information technology, or IT risk management preferably in public accounting
• Advanced knowledge of IT general controls and IT application controls that support financial and operational business processes
• Advanced knowledge of Sarbanes/Oxley (SOX) and NAIC Model Audit Rule (MAR)
• CPA, CISA and/or CIA preferred
• Insurance industry experience helpful

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