SOX & SOC 1 Compliance 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

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.