Senior Auditor

Location(s)

Chicago, Illinois, Life-Manchester Road-St Louis-MO, P&C-Gate Parkway-Jacksonville-FL, P&C-LBJ Freeway-Dallas-TX, P&C-River Run Drive-Birmingham-AL

Details

Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises. 

Position Summary:

Kemper is seeking a talented Senior Auditor to join our Assurance & Advisory Services (A&A) team. A&A plays a key role in helping Kemper achieve its strategic intent, including nurturing and developing future leaders. Our vision is for A&A to provide continuous assurance to senior management and the board on the effectiveness of governance, risk management, and controls through a culture that embraces innovation, analytics, automation, and credible challenge. A&A roles offer significant exposure to multiple areas of our business and all levels of senior management and provide opportunities to identify issues and help make measurable improvements to the Company.

As a Senior Auditor, you will be responsible for the execution of financial, compliance, operational and/or technology-related engagements, targeted reviews, advisory projects, and issue management activities with a focus on P&C Auto or Life Insurance operations. You will ensure projects are risk-based and executed according to A&A policies and guidelines. You will also contribute to department-wide strategic initiatives. Insurance or financial services experience is preferred, but not required.

Position Responsibilities:

• Executes procedures to achieve engagement objectives, including use of data analytics and automation

• Identifies and assesses risks related to the scope of assigned projects, using data analytics and automation as appropriate

• Completes assignments in a timely, high-quality manner

• Maintains work in Kemper’s audit management system

• Reviews work to ensure it is well documented, supports conclusions made, and is ready for review by management

• Provides guidance to other members of the project team and mentors junior staff members

• Drafts issues, completes root cause analysis, and makes practical recommendations

• Helps monitor business efforts to resolve identified control issues and assesses the effectiveness of remediation efforts through follow-up reviews

• Coaches or mentors others, as appropriate

• Maintains and builds skills and competence as identified in an individual development plan and, as appropriate, through participation in relevant industry and professional associations to develop a clear understanding of the business products, processes, services, and associated risks.  

• Builds positive and effective relationships

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in accounting, finance, information systems, data analysis or business administration

• At least 2 years of work experience, preferably in internal audit, public accounting, information technology, information security or data analytics

• Strong sense of curiosity and willingness to obtain a deep understanding of the business and its processes, technologies, and risks to provide value and insights and help improve and achieve our strategic intent

• Able to consistently apply internal audit concepts

• Strong organizational, project management, time management, and problem-solving skills

• Able to work independently in a fast paced, high demand, environment while managing competing priorities in a dynamic environment experiencing rapid growth and change

• Able to gather, analyze, and evaluate facts and to prepare and present concise, detailed, and clear oral and written reports

• Able to synthesize data quickly

• Basic knowledge of control principles (e.g., COSO), financial and operational processes, risks and risk management, IT general controls, and regulatory requirements

• Able to travel up to 20%

• Able to work effectively in a remote environment when necessary

• The selected candidate will work a hybrid work schedule which will require weekly reporting to one of the following offices: Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Birmingham, AL; Alpharetta, GA or Jacksonville, FL

Preferred Skills:

• Has or is pursuing a master’s degree or professional certification, such as CPA, CIA, CISA, CICA, CFE, CISSP, CPCU, FLMI, CAMS, PMP

• Familiarity with TeamMate, Tableau, Alteryx, IDEA, Workday, Guidewire, Workiva, Power BI, and productivity tools such as Microsoft Office

• Financial services experience

The range for this position is $59,900 to $99,700. When determining candidate offers, we consider experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location among other factors. This job is also eligible for our Kemper benefits package (Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401k, etc.)

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination. Kemper is focused on expanding our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts to align with our vision, mission, and guiding principles. Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

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