European IT Internal Auditor Senior

Job Title: European IT Internal Audit Senior

Reporting to: European IT Supervising Internal Audit Senior

Direct Reports: None

Position Type: 6 months FTC, 35 hours per week

Hybrid: 3 days in the office, 2 from home

Overview:

Why Tokio Marine HCC?

Standing still is not an option in the current world of Insurance. TMHCC are one of the world’s leading Specialty Insurers. With deep expertise in our chosen lines of business, our unparalleled track record and a solid balance sheet, TMHCC evaluates and manages risk like no one else in the industry. Looking beyond profit, empowering our people and delivering on our commitments are at the core of our customer values, and so is a desire to grow and provide creative and innovative solutions to our clients. We have doubled our gross written premiums in the past 3 years, and our plan is to do so again in the next 3 years.

We now have a great opportunity for an experienced IT Internal Audit Senior to join our growing European Internal Audit Team at our offices in Aldgate, London. The position reports to the European IT Supervising Internal Audit Senior and offers hybrid working with three days in the Aldgate office and two days per week home office.

The European Internal Audit team operates in a highly collaborative work environment that embraces TMHCC core values of empowerment. As TMHCC International businesses continue to grow, this role will give you a unique opportunity for diverse assignments.

About the IT Internal Audit Senior role:

The purpose of this role is to provide quality IT internal audit work to TMHCC companies in the UK & Europe. The role will report to the European IT Supervising Internal Audit Senior based in London and there will be a close link to the IT Internal Audit team based in Houston.

Key Performance Deliverables:

1. To plan, manage and execute end-to-end IT internal audits, engaging and managing key internal stakeholders across our UK and EU businesses, and to review audit fieldwork.
2. Lead the development of audit test plans and perform IT internal audit fieldwork while ensuring that work papers contain sufficient evidence to support the conclusions and are of a sufficient standard to minimise the number of review points and allow “re-performance”.
3. Assist with annual IT JSOX / internal control framework testing including system walkthroughs and flowcharting on an annual basis for all European locations in compliance with Tokio Marine regulations.
4. Present and discuss audit findings with stakeholders up to senior management level.
5. Liaise with the stakeholders to obtain progress updates on IT control and audit findings and perform remediation testing.
6. Perform IT controls and process testing across all departments and business operations from underwriting, claims, reinsurance, finance, human resources, IT, risk management, Solvency II, governance, compliance and actuarial.
7. Document and record all internal audit and JSOX testing on our AuditBoard audit management software.
8. Produce accurate and complete working papers for planning and fieldwork testing that clearly support the audit findings.
9. Produce the final internal audit report that is presented to the auditees, ensuring that audit findings are clearly articulated for both technical and non-technical audience, with clear root cause, risk, and recommendations.
10. Ensure all working paper review points raised by Internal Audit management are accurately cleared on a timely basis.

Additional Requirements:

1. Support the Internal Audit management /Internal Audit team with various administration, reporting and departmental tasks.
2. Participate in an advisory capacity on system implementation projects and special management requests.
3. Keep up to date with regulatory, technological, auditing and legal changes.
4. Liaise with staff and management across the insurance group.

Skills and Experience Specification:

Essential

1. Degree in Accounting, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related Information Technology field or the equivalent in education.
2. Professional certification (eg. CISA, CISM, CIA, etc).
3. A minimum of 5 years relevant and progressive professional experience with at least 3 years of leading IT internal audit experience and proven ability to drive results.
4. A team player with excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) who builds strong working relationships with internal stakeholders.
5. Keen to develop and grow in a highly collaborative, empowering and busy internal audit team.
6. Excel in end-to-end project planning and execution.
7. Good organisational skills and proven ability to multi-task.
8. Strong report-writing skills with the ability to clearly articulate observations, root cause and risk.
9. Have a high attention to detail and accuracy.

Desirable

1. French, German and / or Spanish language skills would be advantageous but not essential.
2. Willingness to travel, most specifically around European branch offices (around 10% of the role).
3. Experience working with audit management software, particularly AuditBoard is preferred.
4. Insurance and / or financial services experience preferred.
5. IT internal audit and controls knowledge and experience in IT and security related industry frameworks (eg. COBIT, ITIL, ISO27001, etc) preferred.

Tokio Marine HCC is a leading specialty insurance group with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and other locations. With the strength and stability that comes from being a member of the Tokio Marine group, and more than forty years of growth, profitability, and stability, we offer important insurance products that most people do not even know exist.

The Tokio Marine HCC Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer. Please visit www.tmhcc.com for more information about our companies.