Senior Manager, IT Controls & Audit Compliance (Hybrid)

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Who we are

At Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions, we are experts at what we do in protecting what makes businesses unique. Our deep understanding of the specialty insurance market is the foundation for our customized solutions, backed by targeted risk control and claims services. Our employees are passionate about providing insurance coverage that’s aligned to our targeted customer groups.

Intact’s Global Specialty Lines business spans across more than 20 verticals in four distinct markets: U.S., Canada, UK, and Europe. The following opportunity is for our U.S. team.

The opportunity

We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Manager, IT Controls & Audit Compliance to join our Corporate IT team based in our Canton, MA; Farmington, CT; Boston, MA or Raleigh, NC offices on a hybrid schedule. This position is responsible for leading the execution and continuous improvement of IT controls and audit compliance activities within the IT organization. This role is embedded within IT and ensures technology controls and audit compliance responsibilities are owned and executed within IT, while maintaining strong partnership with Finance, Internal Audit, Risk, and business stakeholders.

This position plays a key role in coordinating and ensuring execution of IT General Controls (ITGC), automated application controls, and ensuring audit readiness across multiple regulatory domains including SOX 404, CAS, OFSI, ORM, and US State audits.

The role is also a key contributor to the IT components of the SOX control uplift, providing internal IT leadership and execution support to ensure controls are sustainably designed, operationalized, and aligned with enterprise systems and regulatory expectations. Some of the Senior Manager, IT Controls & Audit Compliance responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Define and maintain the execution strategy and operating framework for IT controls and technology compliance in support of SOX 404, ICFR, and broader regulatory requirements.
• Establish, enhance, and maintain ITGC and automated controls frameworks, ensuring consistency, standardization, and alignment across platforms, systems, and business units.
• Serve as a key IT representative in SOX governance forums, providing subject matter expertise to challenge control adequacy, identify risks, and support escalation of material deficiencies as needed.
• Serve as the IT subject matter authority supporting the IT components of the SOX control uplift, ensuring alignment with enterprise systems, ERP strategy, and transformation initiatives.
• Provide strategic guidance on control design, remediation, and optimization initiatives, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and sustainable control execution.
• Support execution of IT-related SOX initiatives, partnering with IT, Finance, and business stakeholders to ensure consistency with established frameworks and standards.
• Lead the development and execution of IT risk assessments related to financial reporting systems, data integrity, access, change management, and interface controls.
• Guide mitigation strategies for technology-related ICFR risks, ensuring effective and sustainable remediation of control deficiencies.
• Partner with technology and architecture teams to ensure secure, compliant design and implementation of new systems, upgrades, and integrations.
• Engage and influence stakeholders across IT, Finance, Risk, Corporate Legal and Internal Audit to resolve control issues, strengthen execution, and reinforce accountability.
• Act as a primary IT liaison supporting external auditors, regulators, and advisory partners, providing subject matter expertise on technology controls, SOX testing, and remediation approaches.
• Provide clear and concise communication to IT leadership on technology control posture, audit readiness, emerging risks, and remediation status.
• Support planning and prioritization of IT controls activities, aligning efforts to audit requirements, regulatory expectations, and program objectives.
• Evaluate risk and operational impacts of control decisions, supporting practical, efficient, and sustainable compliance solutions.
• Provide guidance and oversight to control owners, reinforcing execution expectations, evidence quality, and audit readiness across IT teams.
• Champion a culture of strong IT gov