Position
Objective:

This position is responsible for creating,
orchestrating, fostering, reinforcing and sustaining a well-managed internal
control environment.  The position serves as a critical appraisal function to
evaluate, design, enhance and implement relevant organizational activities to
ensure the organization’s financial reporting and operational risks are
adequately mitigated by a strong internal controls
system.

Responsibilities:

Major Opportunities and
Decisions:

The position serves to advise and support the
organization through recommendation of appropriate use and adoption of best
practice frameworks (policies, procedures, process, methodologies), designing,
orchestrating, implementing and sustaining a strong controls environment.  The
job encompasses performing research, staying actively apprised of relevant
regulation and compliance requirements,  working in partnership with Internal
Audit, the external auditors and the Corporate Business Controls function to
institute and monitor organization compliance of the various internal control
requirements as well as to ensure that the controls safeguard the Company’s
interests. 

The job specifically includes, but is not limited
to:

• Assessing the
  Profit
  Center’s financial
  reporting and operational risks in consultation with the business executives and
  CFOs
  
• Assessing the
  effectiveness of the entity and process level controls environment.  This may
  include assessment of appropriate IT general controls, SAS 70s and business
  process controls
  
• Reviewing current
  and future outsourcing providers’ organizational controls environment as
  relevant to the services provided or required by the
  Company
  
• Fostering adoption
  of standard policy, procedure, and process within the Profit Center and ensure consistency with the
  Company’s guidance
  
• Conducting research,
  assessing and providing recommendations as the Profit Center considers implementing new
  products, systems, enhancements to business processes/systems, and other major
  organizational changes that impact the controls
  environment

Principal
Accountabilities:

 
Qualifications:

Skills and
Knowledge:

Competencies/Skills:

• Must be a
  self-starter, taking the initiative and getting things
  done
  
• Possess strong
  project management skills demonstrated through experience in effective planning,
  risk mitigation, issues resolution, and executing against plan, and driving to
  successful outcomes in a timely, collaborative, cost-effective
  manner
  
• Excellent verbal and
  written communication skills, including ability to present to large and small
  groups, and handle adversarial situations well
  
• Strong
  organizational skills and an aptitude for detail.
  
• Ability to think
  critically, analyze, prioritize, take initiative,
  problem-solve.
  
• Working knowledge of
  Microsoft applications
  
• Working knowledge of
  SOX software is ideal
  
• Able to work in a
  constantly changing and complex business environment
  
• Ability to influence
  rank and file
  
• Strong
  collaboration, coordination and facilitation skills
  
• Demonstrated skill
  in interview techniques
  
• Working knowledge of
  project management discipline with proven skills in all domains especially work
  plan management, issue/risk management and resource
  management
  
• Proven process
  improvement competencies desirable
  
• Broad IT and
  business knowledge; ability to interface effectively with both IT and Business
  Operations staff
  
• Internal audit /
  external audit & SOX experience
  
• Possess working
  knowledge of IT general controls and business internal
  controls

 Knowledge: 

• Previous
  Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 controls documentation, remediation, and testing
  experience highly desired
  
• Experience in the
  design and implementation of internal control processes
  
  
• Experience in the
  design, development and documentation of processes, policies or procedures
  
  
• Insurance
  knowledge
  
• Experience with
  cultural change efforts highly desired
  
• Process design
  particularly in relation to internal controls experience highly
  desirable

Education and
Experience:

Education: 

Professional
certification (CPA, CMA, or CFA)  and/or (CISA, CISSP, or CFA)

MBA in Accounting,
Finance or equivalent

Project Management Certification (PMP) a
plus

Sarbanes-Oxley
formal training received from a Big 4 Accounting
Firm

 Experience:  

• 9 – 15 years of
  progressive functional experience in accounting, internal controls and finance,
  preferably obtained in a blend of corporate, public accounting, and consulting
  settings plus 3 years of Sarbanes-Oxley (working knowledge of COSO & COBIT
  framework)
  
• 5 – 8 years of
  experience as a Senior Auditor and/or Risk/Controls
  Manager
  
• Experience managing
  external auditors and regulators preferred, otherwise possesses strong
  negotiation, communication, influencing, analytical and logical reasoning
  skills