AVP, Automated Controls

🕒 June 2

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

💵 $135k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Vice President

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Fortitude Re

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201 - 500 employees

💸 Finance

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Finance • Healthcare Insurance

Fortitude Re is a reinsurance company that specializes in helping insurance companies around the world address their complex risk transfer challenges. The firm designs and delivers customized solutions for legacy Life & Annuity and Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance lines. Backed by experienced investor groups including The Carlyle Group and T&D Insurance Group, Fortitude Re prides itself on its leadership with over 20 years of industry experience to effectively manage legacy liabilities. Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd. , along with its subsidiaries, operates globally with a significant presence in Hamilton, Bermuda.

📋 Description

• Lead automated controls, design and delivery • Own the design and implementation of automated controls embedded directly into investment, underwriting, settlements, finance and data workflows • Own the control execution and operation through the development life cycle and identify clear accountability for control ownership and execution once in production, including transition of ownership/execution to accountable team • Translate financial, operational, IT, cyber, data governance and AI risk requirements into automated and other controls embedded in investment, underwriting, settlements, finance, and data workflows • Identify risks associated with business processes and recommend, design and document controls to address those risks • Simplify and standardize control processes so that controls are “built-in” rather than added on • Embed controls into the data & analytics platform • Work with data, technology, and architecture teams to build controls into data pipelines (data quality checks, reconciliations, lineage, access control, etc.) • Establish and implement continuous monitoring, dashboards, and alerts for key controls and risk indicators • Ensure data controls evolve alongside changes to data architecture, pipeline, and downstream consumption • Design, build and maintain automated internal financial controls over settlements, reserving, and financial reporting, ensuring controls execute reliably and produce auditable evidence • Work with IT to review/confirm appropriate ITGCs (access, change management, operations) for key applications and the new platform, supporting ICFR where applicable • Establish a process and accountability for maintaining control documentation, evidence, and issue tracking as part of data-to-day operations • Work with IT to review/confirm embedded automated controls have been established to manage operational and technology risks including process failures, data loss, unauthorized access, and system misuse • Partner with Information Security to ensure robust IAM, logging, monitoring, and incident detection within critical processes • Support governance of AI/machine learning and analytics models, including controls over data sourcing, versioning, approvals, performance monitoring, and model changes • Serve as a control lead on transformation initiatives, ensuring controls are considered from design through implementation • Establish and maintain operating model for automated controls, including ownership, lifecycle management, evidence, exceptions and remediation • Drive adoption of automation-first, controls-by-design practices through hands-on engagement, workshops and training with business and technology teams • Establish continuous control monitoring and follow up on issues and remediation to manage risk and control performance in real time • Investigate control exceptions, coordinate remediation and ensure sustainable fixes are implemented • Develop metrics and dashboards to assess control coverage, reliability, and efficiency, and continuously identify opportunities to further automate, rationalize and simplify controls • Provide transparent control evidence and performance reporting to business, Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit as downstream stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Risk Management, or a related field • 7+ years of relevant experience in risk, controls, internal audit, technology risk, or related functions, preferably within (re)insurance, insurance, or financial services • Demonstrated experience designing and implementing automated controls integrated into business processes and technology platforms (e.g., ERPs, policy/claims systems, data platforms) • Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives end-to-end (design through implementation and adoption), influencing senior stakeholders across Finance, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, and Technology • Strong knowledge of: Internal financial controls and ICFR concepts, IT General Controls (access, change management, operations), Operational risk frameworks and process control design, Cybersecurity and information security principles, Familiarity with data platforms, ETL/ELT processes, and analytics / BI tools (e.g., data warehouses, data lakes, visualization tools) • Experience implementing automated controls within Palantir Foundry or comparable platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Collibra, cloud-native data stacks) • Knowledge of zero-trust principles and automated enforcement within IAM and cloud-native environments • Ability to work in an environment of significant change and ambiguity, with proven success influencing cross-functional stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus based on company and individual performance • Generous benefits package