Audit Director - Insurance and Financial Services

Audit Director - Insurance and Financial Services
Corporate Audit Team
Full time
Springfield, MA or Boston, MA
The Opportunity:
We seek an energetic, motivated, and skilled professional to join our Corporate Audit team. As an Insurance and Financial Services Audit Director you'll have an opportunity to lead a diverse team of highly motivated professionals as a risk and control expert, providing advice to/mentoring audit associates and business area management while championing compliance with standards for audit practices and procedures.
The Team
The MassMutual Corporate Audit Team is located in both Boston and Springfield. If you are a risk professional who is looking to leverage your skills at a company that is focused on transforming the life insurance business while helping people secure financial freedom and protect the ones they love, the below noted role is for you. You will use your skills to partner and collaborate with peers and clients to support an operationally focused audit plan. You will help drive positive change across the organization with opportunities to improve internal controls through value-added recommendations. In this role, you will demonstrate accountability, agility, a dedication to be inclusive, strong business acumen, and will show courage, even in the most difficult situations. We also highly value strong communication skills, a passion for learning, leadership traits, resilience and self-awareness.
The Impact
As an Insurance and Financial Services Audit Director, you will work with the Head of Insurance and Financial Services, Corporate Audit and other Audit Managers and be a key player in overseeing the execution of a dynamic audit plan. Your responsibilities will include, among others, the following tasks:
Coaching and developing professional staff to enhance business knowledge and client relationships such that the team represents highly sought after analytic business partner.

• Developing and nurturing relationships with business management and other constituencies, focusing on the customer and strengthening business value add.
• Leading a group of professionals in conducting audits and advisory services in accordance with professional standards and department policies and procedures, while demonstrating a strong understanding of risk concepts, including inherent and residual risks as well as how to assess the design and effectiveness of internal controls.
• Delivering a risk-based audit plan, working with business management and other risk/control functions, to ensure that controls are effective in managing risks.
• Demonstrating an intense can-do attitude and delivering results on cross-team efforts that increase Corporate Audit's value and effectiveness.
• Assisting in the development of a world class internal audit capability through continually enhancing quality, coverage, timeliness, accuracy and value.

The Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years audit/risk work experience within the financial services industry
• Bachelor's degree
• Due to the nature of this position, as part of our background check process, candidates must be able to pass a non-registered fingerprint background check to qualify as a fingerprint person for FINRA

The Ideal Qualifications:

• MBA, CPA, CIA, CFA or other professional designation
• Experience using Data Analytics and Data Visualization in audits
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills both orally and written
• Demonstrate versatility in communicating up, down and across the organization by working with others and lead discussions with various levels of management across the enterprise
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of risk concepts including inherent and residual risks as well as how to assess the design and effectiveness of internal controls
• Possesses high integrity, professional skepticism and strong business sense
• Ability to multi-task effectively in a fast-paced environment
• High responsiveness and flexibility to changing business priorities and tight deadlines
• Strong analytic and problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to identify solutions that effectively address business and control needs
• Ability to conceptualize solutions and execute delivery
• Ability and willingness to generate original work while managing staff

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

• Regular meetings with teams across business management
• Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
• Access to mentorship opportunities
• Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQ, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
• Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
• Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical foundation with industry leading pay and benefits

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MassMutual is an equal employment opportunity employer. We welcome all persons to apply.
If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
Salary Range: $131,100.00-$172,000.00