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Manager, Internal Controls & SOX Compliance
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Job Location:
Chicago, IL - USA
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Posted:
30 September 2026 (19 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
28 December 2026
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Want to build a SOX program instead of just running someone elses
This is a newly created role inside a stable multi-line insurance organization. As an experienced controls professional youll have real room to modernize how SOX work is performed not inherit a finished playbook.
This is not a role for someone who wants to walk in and overhaul everything in the first quarter.
It is a role for someone who knows how to build trust first land the early wins and bring stakeholders along before pushing for bigger change. If youve done that kind of work inside a traditional risk-averse culture before youll recognize exactly what this needs.
From day one youll be working with:
Why this role stands out:
Ideal background:
If youd rather build the plumbing than maintain someone elses and you have the patience and credibility to do that inside a traditional organization this is worth a conversation.
This is a newly created role inside a stable multi-line insurance organization. As an experienced controls professional youll have real room to modernize how SOX work is performed not inherit a finished playbook.
This is not a role for someone who wants to walk in and overhaul everything in the first quarter.
It is a role for someone who knows how to build trust first land the early wins and bring stakeholders along before pushing for bigger change. If youve done that kind of work inside a traditional risk-averse culture before youll recognize exactly what this needs.
From day one youll be working with:
- SOX 404 scoping risk assessment and testing
- Insurance-specific financial processes: claims and loss reserves premium revenue reinsurance investments
- GAAP vs. statutory (NAIC) reporting differences
- ITGCs automated controls and system interfaces across finance and claims platforms
- A recently implemented Workiva environment for controls management
- Direct partnership with KPMG as external auditor
Why this role stands out:
- Its a newly created seat built specifically to free up VP-level bandwidth so theres real room to grow into more strategic senior-facing work.
- Youll report to a leader who has personally run SOX for an insurer before so you get real technical mentorship not a hands-off manager.
- The organization is financially conservative by design. That means steady footing and it also means the modernization work here is real not cosmetic. Standardizing a workflow or tightening a control actually moves the needle.
- Broad cross-functional exposure: Finance Accounting IT Actuarial Reinsurance Investments Legal and Operations.
Ideal background:
- 6 years in SOX compliance internal audit or public accounting enough runway to lead stakeholder conversations presentations and advisory work not just execute testing
- Hands-on ITGC and automated controls experience
- Insurance industry experience strongly preferred
- Comfortable with both GAAP and statutory (NAIC SAP) accounting
- A track record of introducing change through buy-in not mandate
- CPA CIA or CISA a plus not required
If youd rather build the plumbing than maintain someone elses and you have the patience and credibility to do that inside a traditional organization this is worth a conversation.
