VP, Internal Audit

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Idaho, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee the Company’s IT Internal Audit program, which includes risk assessment, planning, execution, reporting, and follow-up activities.

• Manage and improve Sedgwick’s IT SOX program, focusing on testing strategies and providing assurance over IT general controls, automated controls, interfaces, reports, and other critical technology-dependent controls.

• Develop a risk-based IT audit plan that targets areas such as ERP systems, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud environments, third-party technology risk, and significant system implementations.

• Provide leadership for IT audit testing strategies, encompassing approach, methodology, evidence expectations, and quality of execution.

• Act as a senior subject matter expert on SAP controls, covering aspects such as security, logical access, segregation of duties, privileged access, change management, configuration, interfaces, key reports, and automated controls.

• Collaborate closely with Internal Audit leadership to ensure that technology and SAP risks are adequately integrated into wider financial, operational, and compliance audits.

• Actively participate in Internal Audit’s role in Sedgwick’s global SAP S/4HANA transformation, contributing to the assessment of program governance, control readiness, role design and access models, segregation of duties, mitigating controls, data migration, integration risks, testing, cutover readiness, and post-implementation control sustainability.

• Lead and directly assess remediation validation for IT and SAP-related findings to ensure corrective actions are practical, effective, and sustainable.

• Collaborate with management and external auditors on IT SOX and SAP controls, including coordinating testing, resolving issues, and discussing reliance.

• Effectively communicate technology and control risks to senior leadership, maintaining a practical, business-oriented perspective.

• Contribute to enhancing and modernizing Internal Audit’s approach to auditing ERP transformations, digital risks, and changes in enterprise technology.

• Build, mentor, and cultivate a high-performing team while promoting strong collaboration across Internal Audit, IT, Finance, and business leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

• Over 12 years of progressive experience in IT audit, IT risk, SOX, internal controls, or ERP controls, including experience in senior leadership roles.

• Proven experience leading IT internal audit and IT SOX programs in a complex, large-scale organization.

• Extensive expertise in IT general controls, IT SOX, technology-related financial controls, ERP and application controls, IT audit testing strategies, execution, issue tracking, follow-up, and remediation validation.

• Significant experience with SAP environments, particularly controls related to access, security, segregation of duties, change management, configuration, interfaces, reports, and automated controls.

• Experience in supporting or auditing SAP implementations or large ERP transformation programs, ideally including SAP S/4HANA.

• Strong understanding of implementation and transformation risks, including governance, testing, access design, data migration, and readiness for go-live.

• Capability to evaluate both design effectiveness and operating effectiveness of controls in a dynamic, global environment.

• Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively with senior business and technology stakeholders.

• CISA certification is preferred.

• Additional certifications such as CIA, CPA, CISSP, or similar relevant credentials are advantageous.

• SAP or SAP controls-related certification is preferred, or equivalent experience in SAP risk, controls, and GRC.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work-life balance.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Meaningful oversight and assurance in technology.