Auditor - SOX & Controls (hybrid) in Newtownabbey

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. For more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs.

Your role in the team: The Auditor - SOX & Controls drives key portions of risk-based audits, managing workstreams from initial scoping and planning through control testing and issue reporting. Acting as a vital link between audit leadership, junior team members, and business stakeholders, this role ensures alignment, clarity, and compliance throughout the audit engagement lifecycle, including adherence to professional standards and SOX requirements. With increasing autonomy, the Auditor contributes to audit strategy by applying business process expertise and a modern approach, incorporating Agile-based methodologies and emerging technologies such as generative AI to enhance audit quality. The consultant also plays a key role in mentoring junior auditors, fostering collaboration, and driving efficiency and insight across audit engagements.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive and manage end-to-end testing for assigned audit segments, such as process reviews, compliance assessments, or operational control audits.
• Facilitate scoping workshops and risk-ranking sessions to determine audit coverage, using established risk and control frameworks.
• Develop tailored audit test procedures that incorporate policy requirements, business process reviews, and data analysis.
• Review and validate evidence from source documents, workflows, reports, and stakeholder-provided documentation to support control evaluation.
• Use data-driven methods, such as trend analysis or segmentation, leveraging tools like Excel, Power BI, or SQL to identify potential control weaknesses or anomalies; collaborate with data specialists on more complex analysis when needed.
• Apply structured prompt techniques to use generative AI for drafting audit findings, testing logic, or summarising risk insights.
• Present findings and recommendations to audit leadership, supported by documented evidence, risk ratings, and proposed remediation options.
• Mentor junior staff on test procedures, documentation standards, and productive stakeholder engagement.
• Coordinate issue validation and remediation testing for prior findings, including follow-up on supporting evidence and closure documentation.
• Engage with business leaders to align on issue scope, agree on remediation timelines, and confirm ownership.
• Contribute to audit planning by identifying recurring themes, emerging risks, and opportunities for cross-functional collaboration.

Essential Skills:

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in SOX auditing or SOX testing in business and/or IT controls.
• Proficiency in Excel to perform data-driven analysis as part of audit testing.
• Experience interacting with senior stakeholders and/or external auditors as part of audit/SOX engagements.
• Experience working in an Agile environment and contributing to iterative planning cycles.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience using Workiva or similar SOX/audit workflow technology.
• Experience working in the insurance industry.
• Experience leveraging data tools (Power BI, SQL, or similar) to support audit analytics and identify anomalies.
• Exposure to using generative AI tools (e.g., structured prompting) to support audit documentation, risk summaries, or testing logic.
• Core certifications such as CPA, CA, CISA, CIA, or CFE.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job does not have supervisory duties.

Why join us? Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence, recent winners of 'Best Use of Cloud Services' at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility. We offer a generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts. Access to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&D. Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth. A people-first culture with flexible working options.

Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities: Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability. We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.