Internal Audit Manager - Financial Controls

Starr Insurance Companies is a leading insurance and investment organization, providing commercial property and casualty insurance, including travel and accident coverage, to almost every imaginable business and industry in virtually every part of the world.
Cornelius Vander Starr established his first insurance company in Shanghai, China in 1919. Today, we are one of the world’s fastest growing insurance organizations, capable of writing in 128 countries on 6 continents.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Leadership for the function in the Europe region.
• Owning the Starr Internal Controls in Financial Reporting framework, maintaining it, making recommendations for change to the governance oversight committee
• Representing the function in governance meetings, and handling senior stakeholder engagement.
• Owning the audit management system for ICFR, maintaining it, and making recommendations for improvements.
• Oversight of the supporting role situated in Malta.
• Undertake risk assessments to identify in scope key controls.
• Produce and maintain documentation of walkthroughs and process, risk and control documentation.
• Undertake testing of the operating effectiveness of key controls on a cyclical but risk-based approach.
• Track the status of actions arising from the above work.
• Conduct other remediation work as required.
• Maintain auditable records that support the work done.
• Report on the status and outcomes of work to relevant Boards, Committees and to senior management.
• Work with the internal audit team to ensure minimisation of overlap of control testing.
• Escalate any control issues, as these arise, to the Head of Internal Audit and management.
• Identify opportunities for continuous process improvement and adoption of industry best practices in terms of process execution, internal controls, ethics and compliance.
• Develop working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders in the business.
• Develop a network of external peers to share best practices and ideas.

Requirements

• Relevant financial controls audit experience, ideally within financial services.
• Understanding of audit methodologies and standards.
• Comfortable using systems to extract data and perform testing as required, including use of the company GRC system to maintain process documentation and record the results of work done.
• Someone looking to grow into the manager/leader for the ICFR team within 1-2 years.

Starr is an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We offer first class training and development opportunities to all employees. Our aim is to grow our own talent and bring out the best in people.