Financial Controls Manager

SiriusPoint•New York City, NY

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

SiriusPoint is seeking a Financial Controls Manager to join our accounting team. This role is crucial for leading the day-to-day execution and continuous improvement of our SOX Section 404 / Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) program. You will foster a management-owned compliance model by establishing program standards, coordinating documentation, and collaborating with Internal Audit and external auditors to ensure an audit-ready program. Reporting to the Head of Accounting Policy, you will oversee the entire SOX/ICFR program cycle, including risk-based scoping, documentation standards, deficiency evaluation and remediation tracking, coordinating with auditors for walkthroughs and testing, and providing transparent reports to leadership.

Requirements

CPA required with 5+ years of relevant experience in SOX compliance/ICFR, internal audit, external audit, or controllership (public company experience preferred).
Strong working knowledge of SOX Section 404 and COSO-based ICFR concepts, including risk assessment/scoping, documentation, walkthroughs, testing approaches, and evidence standards.
Demonstrated project management and stakeholder management skills, including ability to drive timelines, influence without authority, and coordinate across Finance, IT, and business partners.
Excellent writing and documentation skills (narratives, process flows, control descriptions, issue/deficiency summaries), including comfort with key reports/IPE concepts and coordinating with IT on ITGCs and automated controls.
Comfortable working autonomously under tight deadlines in a global, fast-paced environment; able to pivot quickly while executing with accuracy and strong judgment.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and process documentation tools (e.g., Visio); experience with Workiva (or similar GRC/SOX tools) preferred.

Nice To Haves

Public company experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead the annual, top-down, risk-based SOX / ICFR risk assessment and scoping process (entities, processes, systems, significant accounts / disclosures and relevant assertions), including documentation of key judgments and changes year over year.
Coordinate evaluation of entity-level controls, fraud/management override considerations, and monitoring activities as part of the ICFR assessment.
Drive periodic reassessment of business, systems, organizational, and process changes (e.g. new products, system implementations, reorganizations, transactions, acquisitions) to determine impacts to scope, control design, documentation, and testing approach.
Own and maintain the annual SOX / ICFR project plan, including milestones for planning, walkthroughs, interim testing, roll-forward testing, year-end close controls, and post-cycle lessons learned.
Establish clear program governance, including status reporting cadence, escalation paths, decision logs, and cross-functional communications.
Maintain role clarity and appropriate independence when partnering with Internal Audit and / or co-sourced providers; align on responsibilities, timelines, and deliverables.
Partner with process and control owners to develop, maintain, and refresh SOX documentation (narratives, flowcharts, control descriptions) and Risk and Control Matrices (RCMs), ensuring consistency, precision, and audit-ready quality.
Plan and coordinate walkthroughs and ensure documentation supports reliance expectations (control objective, frequency, precision, evidence, and ownership).
Maintain key inventories (controls, risks, key reports/IPE, and in-scope systems), including version control and change tracking in Workiva.
Coordinate and monitor SOX testing performed by Internal Audit (design and operating effectiveness), including schedules, walkthrough coordination, evidence requests, sample selection logistics, status tracking, and timely issue resolution with control owners.
Define and reinforce evidence quality standards (completeness/accuracy, level of review, retention), including expectations for controls that rely on information produced by the entity (IPE) and key reports.
Coordinate with IT stakeholders on IT general controls (ITGCs), automated controls, SOC reports (where applicable), and segregation of duties considerations to support ICFR reliance.
Maintain a centralized issue/deficiency log and remediation tracker, including action plans, owners, target dates, retesting coordination, and closure validation.
Support deficiency evaluation (including aggregation considerations), clear documentation of conclusions, and drafting/maintaining the Summary of Aggregated Deficiencies (SAD) and related materials.
Partner with control owners to design sustainable remediation and preventative measures and drive continuous improvement based on root-cause themes.
Serve as a primary liaison among Finance, IT, the business, Internal Audit, and external auditors to ensure SOX objectives, deliverables, and timelines are met.
Prepare executive-ready dashboards and updates on program status, testing progress, open issues, and remediation for leadership and governance forums.
Develop and deliver SOX/ICFR training and enablement for control owners (expectations, timing, and evidence standards) and optimize program workflows in Workiva.

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
FSA Medical and Dependent care
Health Savings Account (HSA)
EAP
Basic Life and AD&D (company paid)
Basic Long-Term Disability (employer) paid
Taxable income Employee paid Long Term Disability(voluntary)
Company Medical Leave
Parental leave- 8 weeks full pay after 6 months of service
Voluntary benefits: short term disability, Critical illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident
Travel assistance programs
Company paid 401(k) 6 % safe harbor match, fully vested after two years, pre- and post-tax contributions allowed
Gym reimbursement
Legal plan
Pet Insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Generous PTO
Flexible work arrangement
Fully stacked pantry on-site
Team outings
ERG Groups