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About the Role
As an individual contributor and Senior Specialist on the Controls Assurance team, you will support the Head of Business, Controls Assurance with the assessment and execution of internal controls over financial reporting. This role involves internal controls testing and documentation, assessing control deficiencies, building relationships, and providing guidance to process and controls owners. You will also perform direct assistance controls testing for the Company’s external audit, collaborating with various levels of management and staff, as well as the external audit firm.
Responsibilities
- Support annual risk assessment, scoping, and planning activities.
- Conduct the annual risk assessment and support completion of MAR scoping and planning activities.
- Review risk assessment and scoping results with stakeholders and help finalize the MAR program scope.
- Identify opportunities to use data analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence to enhance scoping and planning activities.
- Execute key components of the MAR lifecycle in accordance with established methodologies, regulatory expectations, and program timelines.
- Identify opportunities to apply data analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence capabilities to improve program execution.
- Manage assigned responsibilities effectively and efficiently while meeting established program deadlines.
- Support control owners and business testers by monitoring testing progress, answering questions, and helping resolve execution challenges.
- Communicate progress, challenges, and results clearly to the Controls Assurance team management and business stakeholders.
- Work with process owners to evaluate control deficiencies, develop remediation recommendations, and support preparation of deficiency documentation.
- Perform follow-up activities for open deficiencies and monitor progress toward timely resolution.
- Perform quality assurance reviews to help confirm testing is complete, accurate, and aligned with program methodology.
- Gather sub-certification deliverables and help identify and address obstacles to MAR attestation.
- Respond to external auditor requests in a timely, complete, and well-documented manner.
- Perform assigned control testing in support of the Company’s external audit.
- Participate in special projects and ad hoc control initiatives that support departmental and company objectives.
Requirements
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience in internal or external audit, accounting, and/or finance, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Model Audit Rule.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Sound analytical skills, with the ability to effectively analyze a process and assess risks and controls.
- Strong project management skills to meet established deadlines.
- Ability to solve problems and identify root causes of process breakdowns.
- Ability to collaborate with others, both inside and outside of the department, while working toward common goals and fostering understanding and agreement.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.
Skills
- Internal control programs
- Model Audit Rule (MAR)
- Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
- Regulatory control frameworks
- Business processes
- Financial reporting risks
- Related key controls
- Organizational skills
- Meeting program milestones and deadlines
- Building trusted relationships with business partners, control owners, and audit stakeholders
- Managing multiple priorities in a deadline-driven environment
- Project management
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Data analytics
- Automation
- Artificial intelligence
Location
- Hybrid - 3 days in office located in Hudson Yards, NYC; Holmdel NJ; or Bethlehem PA. 2 days WFH.
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Specialist
- 3+ years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or Management, Management Information Systems, or another related field.
- Master’s degree or equivalent (Preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- $68,970.00 - $113,310.00
Benefits
- Support and flexibility to achieve professional and personal goals
- Skill-building
- Leadership development
- Philanthropic opportunities
- Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources
About the Company
- At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
- As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues.
- Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.
Equal Opportunity
- Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
- Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
- Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
- Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment-based visas (e.g., such as an H-1B).