Senior Specialist, Internal Controls

Aegon; United States; Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aegon Americas is seeking a senior professional to assist in day-to-day execution of the Sarbanes-Oxley controls program within the first line of defense and support leadership with oversight of global country unit SOX responsibilities.

You will leverage your expertise to identify, assess, and report on key controls across the company, collaborating with business management, process owners, and risk management to ensure regulatory compliance and adherence to corporate standards.

Qualifications

• Eight years of progressive experience in internal controls, audit or risk management within the financial services industry.
• Experience with Sarbanes Oxley and assessing control related risks.
• Ability to document and verbally communicate financial reporting processes clearly, including assessment of control design and operating effectiveness.
• Strong communication skills to educate or raise awareness of internal control methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Assist in evaluating and designing internal controls; recommend improvements.
• Document financial/accounting/actuarial process flows with focus on SOX compliance.
• Support SOX risk assessment, scoping, and process mapping for governance.
• Lead development and implementation of goals, policies, and procedures for ICFR and SOX.
• Prepare updates to management including remediation plans for control deficiencies.
• Coordinate with external auditors on assessments of the control environment and issue resolution.

Skills

Communication

Documentation

Educate stakeholders

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting

CPA

Job description

Responsible for assisting in the day-to-day execution of the Aegon Americas Sarbanes Oxley controls program within the first line of defense as well as supporting internal control leadership with the oversight of the global country unit SOX responsibilities. Responsible for assisting as a subject matter expert in the identification, assessment, oversight reporting and disclosure of all key controls across the company and to ensure the business procedures and/or financial controls are in compliance with applicable regulatory and corporate standards and practices. Develop and maintain relationships with appropriate business management and process owners, as well as risk management personnel (second line of defense).

Responsibilities

• Assist in the effort over the evaluation and design of internal controls and make recommendations for improvement.
• Conduct and document financial/accounting/actuarial process flows, with a focus on internal controls and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Support the execution of management’s SOX risk assessment and scoping activities to ensure proper risk identification, process mapping and controls linkage for a sustainable internal control framework.
• Assist in leading the development and implementation of goals, policies, priorities and procedures relating to internal controls over financial reporting and SOX.
• Assist in preparing updates to management, including management control remediation plans.
• Partner and liaise with external auditors to plan and implement an assessment of the control environment, coordination of timing and execution of process walkthroughs, and a process for timely sharing of potential issues for resolution with respect to internal controls.
• Develop processes and policies for reporting findings.
• Collaborate with the first line in development of action plans to assess the adequacy of action taken by management to correct reporting deficient conditions, accepting adequate corrective action and continuing reviews with appropriate management on action considered inadequate until satisfactory resolution.
• Help coordinate the system to capture and track control deficiencies through all country units, as well as internal and external audit findings to resolution.
• Help support testing the design and operating effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting.
• Collaborate and assist in assessing control implications within the Issue Paper process.
• Support internal controls leadership on the oversight of all global country units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or relevant field, or equivalent work experience.
• Eight years of progressive experience in internal controls, audit or risk management within the financial services industry.
• Experience working with internal controls under Sarbanes Oxley and assessing control related risks.
• Ability to document and verbally communicate financial reporting processes in a clear and concise manner, including assessment of design and operating effectiveness of controls.
• Communication skills to educate/raise awareness of foundational elements/methodologies needed to support an internal control framework.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA
• Big 4 public accounting experience working with controls within the Sarbanes Oxley environment
• Recent experience with a listed U.S. company that is a domestic registrant.

Working Conditions

• Hybrid (In Office: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays)

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $112,000 - $130,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

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