Accounting Advisor

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; Cool Valley (MO); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Vision

Dental

Well-being programs

401(k)

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

The Cigna Group in Missouri is seeking a Financial Compliance Advisor to help oversee SOX and SOC 1 compliance for the Evernorth segment. You will partner with control owners, document controls, and support remediation of deficiencies, with significant interaction with audit teams and IT controls.

The role requires 3-5 years in relevant compliance and a strong grounding in risk assessment, communication, and project management. Location offers hybrid work and competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 3-5 years of relevant SOX, internal controls, audit, risk consulting, or other financial compliance role experience.
• CPA, CISA or CIA strongly preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Visio.
• Strong understanding of technology and business process internal controls and risk assessment.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact with control owners and other stakeholders including internal and external auditors.
• Ability to work cross functionally to resolve complex issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and proactively to identify when complex items require escalation.

Responsibilities

• Understanding and collaborating with business owners to support the design of Evernorth business processes internal controls commensurate with significant financial statement risk.
• Supporting the appropriate documentation and communication updates that need to be made.
• Collaborating with Information Technology compliance to ensure appropriate understanding and consideration of technology controls and potential dependencies and/or impacts to business process controls.
• Actively liaising with internal and external auditors and various process and control owners to ensure testing readiness of control owners, timely supply of requested documentation and escalation of key SOX and SOC1 control deficiencies as they arise.
• Working with control owners to determine appropriate compensating control mapping, including identification of root cause and remediation actions for control gaps or operating deficiencies.
• Supporting business partners with activities related to project initiatives to critically evaluate potential impacts to Evernorth’s financial controls environment.
• Building and maintaining relationships with key business partners through regular touchpoints to ensure alignment on key processes and financial controls.

Skills

SOX compliance

Internal controls

Audit

Risk assessment

Project management

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Visio

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Visio

Job description

Job Profile Summary

The Financial Compliance Advisor will be responsible for assisting with overall Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and SOC 1 compliance for the Evernorth segment, focused on business processes internal controls. This position will play a key role in collaborating with control owners in assessing the design of internal controls in key processes to address risks within our SOC 1 and SOX reporting scope. This position will also be responsible for working with process owners on control documentation as well as support remediation activity necessary for internal control deficiencies under SOX and SOC 1. This position will report to a Senior Advisor within Financial Compliance and will have significant interaction with our business partners throughout the organization as well as our external and internal audit teams.

Responsibilities

• Understanding and collaborating with business owners to support the design of Evernorth business processes internal controls commensurate with significant financial statement risk.
• Supporting the appropriate documentation and communication updates that need to be made.
• Collaborating with Information Technology compliance to ensure appropriate understanding and consideration of technology controls and potential dependencies and/or impacts to business process controls.
• Actively liaising with internal and external auditors and various process and control owners to ensure testing readiness of control owners, timely supply of requested documentation and escalation of key SOX and SOC1 control deficiencies as they arise.
• Working with control owners to determine appropriate compensating control mapping, including identification of root cause and remediation actions for control gaps or operating deficiencies.
• Supporting business partners with activities related to project initiatives to critically evaluate potential impacts to Evernorth’s financial controls environment.
• Building and maintaining relationships with key business partners through regular touchpoints to ensure alignment on key processes and financial controls.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree.
• 3-5 years of relevant SOX, internal controls, audit, risk consulting, or other financial compliance role experience.
• CPA, CISA or CIA strongly preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and Visio.
• Strong understanding of technology and business process internal controls and risk assessment.
• Excellent project management and organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact with control owners and other stakeholders including internal and external auditors.
• Ability to work cross functionally to resolve complex issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and proactively to identify when complex items require escalation.

Location and Working Arrangements

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

Salary and Benefits

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 91,100 - 151,800 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location. This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

At The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health.

• medical
• vision
• dental
• well-being and behavioral health programs
• 401(k)
• company paid life insurance
• tuition reimbursement
• a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year
• paid holidays
• leaves of absence

For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

Accommodation Statement

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email [e-mail] for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.

Tobacco-Free Policy

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.

Criminal History Consideration

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.

Company Culture

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.