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IT Governance For Annual Audit Function

Our client is one of the United States' largest insurers, providing a wide range of insurance and financial services products with gross written premiums well over US$25 billion (P&C). They proudly serve more than 10 million U.S. households with more than 19 million individual policies across all 50 states through the efforts of over 48,000 exclusive and independent agents and nearly 18,500 employees. Finally, our client is part of one of the largest insurance groups in the world.

This position will focus on the IT governance of the annual audit function with regard to both IT and integrated audits along with providing support for ICFR (Internal Control over Financial Reporting) related IT deliverables and initiatives. In addition, coordinate IT involvement with external audits or other ad-hoc compliance related activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist internal audit in the preparation of the yearly audit plan.
• Participate in meetings between IA and IT, using discretion as to which meetings require attendance.
• Active engagement in the wording, actions and timeline for any audit findings.
• Prepare weekly/monthly report detailing the current state of all audits and any notable items.
• Send formal notification of any IT open audit action 45 days in advance of the due date to avoid any surprises.
• Assist the auditors in ensuring 5-day SLA delivery of any IA requests to IT.
• Maintain an artifact directory corresponding chart that includes all major audit deliverables from IA (Yearly Audit Plan, Preliminary Audit Plan, Final Audit Plan, Draft Report and Final Report).
• Reduce friction and assist in maintaining adherence to plan.
• Proactively work with IT teams to harden their areas against likely future audit findings.
• Develop and maintain an open rapport with IT managers and senior managers up to and including the COO.