Senior Auditor

Senior Auditor

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today's challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World's Most Admired Companies, we're the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

The Senior Auditor leads and supports internal audits across Americas' operations, focusing on financial, operational, and compliance areas such as pricing, underwriting, administration, claims, and valuation. The Senior Auditor designs and executes risk-based audit procedures, evaluates internal controls, and provides value-added advisory services to address emerging risks and management requests, delivering recommendations to improve processes and drive efficiencies as the company evolves through strategic change. Responsibilities include supervising audit engagements, collaborating with management, and preparing high-quality reports. Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills are required. Experience leveraging technology to enhance audit quality and efficiency is preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Assesses key risks associated with operational, business, and client-related processes and activities. Recommends nature, scope and timing of proposed audits. Develops audit procedures to assess control design and operating effectiveness and end results through a risk-based approach aligned with key business and audit objectives. Continuously challenges testing approach throughout the audit to ensure alignment with key risks while driving efficiencies.
• Takes accountability for audit deadlines and budgets, encouraging self and team to execute against commitments. Embraces flexibility with a positive attitude while overcoming obstacles and barriers in order to meet deadlines. Reacts appropriately to unexpected events or changes in direction; quickly adjusts as needed.
• Leads special projects and management requests, providing advisory and consulting services to deliver value-added risk and control expertise. Recommends staffing requirements to complete the effort, oversees directs activities of assigned auditors, and ensures assigned work meets defined audit standards for quality and execution.
• Trains and mentors new auditors on key standards and practices employed within the department and across the company, while sharing expertise and lessons learned with others.
• Collaborates with professionals within and outside the department (including subject matter experts on co-sourced / outsourced audits). Proactively communicates the Global Audit and Advisory brand, providing control expertise, operating with the highest level of integrity, and proposing constructive solutions to improve control effectiveness and mitigate risk in support of business objectives.
• Prepares timely workpapers covering the nature, timing and extent of audit procedures performed and conclusions reached in accordance with applicable auditing standards.
• Prepares timely, high-quality deliverables for internal and external stakeholders. Able to succinctly articulate key thematics of the results and provide risk insights. Collaborates with business management to obtain buy-in on the risk, finding(s), and actions and coordinate report finalization with appropriate stakeholders.
• Assists with monitoring and assessing business management's corrective actions, while maintaining the issue management tool (AuditBoard), and communicating action status to various stakeholders.
• Determines use of sampling and software necessary to accomplish audit procedures. Obtains, analyzes and appraises supporting data utilizing various software applications.
• Considers and incorporates data and analytics when assessing risk during audit planning and fieldwork seeking opportunities to leverage technology that enables efficiencies and / or improved audit quality.
• Performs testing and walkthrough procedures to assess company compliance associated with key processes : reviews and analyzes the control structure, documents testing results, and communicates results to Management. Evaluates the adequacy and timeliness of management's response and corrective actions taken on audit recommendations.
• Contributes to the development of the annual audit plan considering new and emerging risks resulting from changes in people, processes and systems.
• Maintains continuing professional education requirements and regular and predictable attendance.
• Provides real-time feedback to those assisting on audits including preparation of performance evaluations on individual audit engagements.

Candidate Requisites

Education & Experience

Skills & Abilities

What you can expect from RGA :

Compensation Range : $87,050.00 - $131,450.00 Annual Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.