Senior, Audit & ICFR Operations

About the role

The Senior, Audit & ICFR Operations role supports the Company's external audit, regulatory examination, and internal control environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the day-to-day coordinator for external audits and regulatory examinations, including financial statement audits, regulatory exams, and other assurance activities.
• Drive timely, high-quality completion of audit requests and deliverables across multiple concurrent audits, ensuring adherence to agreed timelines and quality standards.
• Own audit request / PBC management, including intake, assignment, follow-ups, escalation, and resolution.
• Prepare and maintain audit and exam calendars, project plans, walkthrough schedules, and internal readiness instructions.
• Produce recurring audit/exam status reporting (progress, risks, bottlenecks, decisions required) and maintain issue and decision logs.
• Partner closely with external auditors and regulators to ensure clear communication, alignment on expectations, and efficient issue resolution.
• Carefully coordinate responses to audit findings and ensure alignment with external auditor and regulatory expectations.
• Partner with Accounting, FP&A, Tax, IT, Operations, Legal, and other stakeholders to gather support, clarify requirements, and ensure audit requests are addressed effectively.
• Maintain and continuously improve standard templates and checklists (PBC forms, walkthrough materials, evidence checklists).
• Ensure accurate and up-to-date status within audit management tools, repositories, and SharePoint sites.
• Promote effective project management disciplines, organization, and documentation rigor across audit activities.
• Contribute to lessons learned and post-audit retrospectives to continuously improve audit outcomes.
• Optimize the internal control repository, including organization, naming conventions, evidence standards, and year-over-year reusability.
• Carefully coordinate and monitor service organization (SOC) report coverage, review gaps, and ensure relevance to in-scope controls.
• Strengthen and maintain the ICFR environment by ensuring high-quality documentation for control design and operating effectiveness, including appropriate evidence retention.
• Maintain and enhance process narratives, flowcharts, RCMs, and evidence standards in support of ICFR and J-SOX compliance.
• Carefully coordinate control owner attestations and maintain aggregated summaries of deficiencies and remediation status.
• Support J-SOX compliance activities and alignment with global control expectations.
• Carefully track audit issues, control deficiencies, and management action plans, including ownership, remediation timelines, and status.
• Provide stakeholder coaching and guidance on audit readiness, control expectations, and documentation standards.
• Aid teams through error evaluation and deficiency severity analyses, including documentation quality and completeness.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• 3-6 years of experience
• Big 4 public accounting experience
• Life insurance or reinsurance industry experience, preferred
• Professional accounting designation (CPA or Bermuda equivalent)
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP; exposure to US Statutory and/or Bermuda regulatory reporting highly desirable
• Experience in financial reporting, consolidation, and analytics within a multi-entity environment
• Familiarity with internal controls frameworks and J-SOX compliance
• Experience working in a multi-GAAP, multi-currency reporting environment preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on financial statement accuracy and insight generation
• High attention to detail and ability to work in a deadline-driven reporting environment
• Effective communicator with the ability to present financial information clearly to stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple reporting deliverables concurrently

Location

New York, NY (Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office)

Benefits

Resolution Life US offers a comprehensive benefits package, including a health & wellness program, incentive and recognition programs, and a 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).