SVP, Chief Audit Executive
About the role
The Senior Vice President, Chief Audit Executive (CAE) plays a pivotal role in delivering on Voya’s mission—serving as the enterprise’s independent assurance leader and a trusted advisor to the Board and executive leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead internal audit and financial controls & reporting (FCR) functions, delivering coordinated, risk-based assurance across financial, operational, and regulatory domains.
- Oversee the design, execution, and continuous improvement of ICFR, SOX, and financial controls frameworks.
- Drive end-to-end visibility into control effectiveness, systemic risks, and remediation outcomes.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the Audit Committee and executive leadership, delivering clear, credible perspectives on risk, controls, and governance.
- Translate audit findings into forward-looking insights that inform business decisions and enterprise strategy.
- Partner closely with external auditors and regulators, ensuring confidence in governance and audit processes.
- Provide independent assurance over financial reporting integrity and control effectiveness, while maintaining clear separation from control ownership.
- Monitor and challenge management on the timely and effective remediation of audit findings.
- Advance the audit function through automation, data analytics, and continuous controls monitoring.
- Strengthen reporting and insights to be more proactive, risk-aware, and decision-oriented.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, streamline, and enhance control environments across the enterprise.
- Build and lead a high-performing Internal Audit and FCR organization with strong technical depth and enterprise mindset.
- Establish clear governance, decision rights, and operating models that balance independence with execution excellence.
Qualifications
- Executive leadership experience in Internal Audit, Financial Controls, and SOX within a complex, regulated environment (financial services preferred).
- Deep expertise in ICFR, financial reporting risk, regulatory frameworks, and enterprise risk management.
- Proven ability to engage and influence Audit Committees, regulators, and senior executives.
- Track record of modernizing audit functions through data, automation, and continuous monitoring.
- Strong leadership presence and the ability to build and develop high-performing teams.
- Bachelor’s degree required; CPA, CIA, or advanced degree strongly preferred.
Skills
- Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
- Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
- Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
- Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
- Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
Benefits
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
Pay
Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities. The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
Schedule
Periodic domestic travel required.