SOX Audit Senior Manager

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Job details

Company overview

We are a leading insurance company operating in Japan. We offer a wide range of insurance products and provide non-life insurance services to individual and corporate clients. We offer a diverse range of insurance products, including automobile, fire, and personal accident insurance, and provide plans tailored to meet the insurance needs of our customers. We emphasize high quality customer service and efficient responses, earning the trust of our clients. In addition, we are committed to stable operations and growth, leveraging our years of experience and expertise. With our leadership in the insurance industry, customer protection and satisfaction are our top priorities.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

• Lead and execute Business manual SOX control testing assignments from planning to fieldwork to reporting phase. This will include managing and guiding audit resources to execute the plan and reviewing their deliverables (e.g., work papers, memos)
• Coordinating testing schedule with external and internal stakeholders
• Managing resource requirements by working closely with the offshore SOX teams
• Applies pertinent industry knowledge and subject matter expertise to assurance activities in particular US GAAP and J GAAP
• Tracking and completion of issue validation
• Maintains strong relationship and partnership with business stakeholders as well as external audit partner
• Contributes to overall quality, effectiveness, and value of SOX program by recommending and developing innovative approaches and solutions including process improvements and use of automations
• 　Internal Interactions (Within the Organization)
  • Internal Audit Department managers and members
  • Any Department managers where SOX audit is conducted.
  • Business department members
• 　External Interactions (Outside the Organization)
  • External Auditors on as needed basis

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Minimum a University Degree(4 year bachelor degree)
• 8+ years of experience working within an internal audit with the financial or insurance industry.
• 3+ years of experience in and/or knowledge of SOX audit and procedures.
• Relative product knowledge (e.g., Consumer and Commercial Insurance) and understanding of associated business risks.
• Experience leading and executing risk-based internal audits and/or risk and control assessments, leveraging control frameworks such as COBIT, NIST, and ITIL and proficiency in core requirements and methodologies for SOX internal control programs.
• Experience in implementation of internal control processes and programs.
• Effective communications (oral and written), technical knowledge and negotiation skills in order to communicate findings with stakeholders and reach agreement on target dates for action plans is required.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills to build relationships both internally and externally including ability to thrive within a team-oriented environment is required.
• Function independently and multi-task in a dynamic, changing environment.
• Self-starter and highly team-oriented behavior.
• Strong leadership skills ; Ability to manage a team of audit professionals and strongly grow careers of team members.
• Sufficient proficiency with MS Excel tools, Access, ACL, IDEA, Olikview, Tableau etc. with experience of auditing leveraging the use of data analysis with the above-mentioned tools.
• Business level Japanese and English is required.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced IT skills (for example: BluePrism, Pentaho, Kofax, SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, SAS, R, Python, ACL, VB, Qlik, Power BI, ACL, SSRS/IS/AS) is a plus.
• CISA, CISM, CISSP, PMP, and/or CPA a plus

Salary

12 - 14 million yen

Location

Tokyo