Ceded Reinsurance SOX & Audit Consultant

Project overview

Ceded Reinsurance SOX & Audit Consultant

Our sister company Stellarmann is supporting a leading insurance organisation with an urgent requirement for a Ceded Reinsurance SOX & Audit Consultant. This role will play a key part in supporting audit activities, SOX compliance documentation, controls embedding, and wider ceded reinsurance change initiatives across the business. Working closely with Finance, Risk, and Operational stakeholders, you will help strengthen the controls environment, support audit delivery, and drive process improvements within a highly regulated insurance environment.

We are looking for:

Key Responsibilities

This is a 6 month initial contract and is a paying a competitve market day rate outside IR35 with a mixtue of office and homeworking

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• Demonstratable experience in Internal Audit, SOX Compliance, Accounting, Risk Management, or related disciplines
• Strong Insurance industry experience, with essential exposure to Ceded Reinsurance
• Solid understanding of SOX requirements, internal control frameworks (COSO), and audit methodologies
• Experience documenting and embedding controls within complex business environments
• Proven track record coordinating audit requests and managing audit evidence collection
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence process owners across the business
• Experience identifying control gaps, process inefficiencies, and implementing improvements
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver against tight deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field
• Professional qualification preferred: ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
• Support the documentation, maintenance, and enhancement of SOX-compliant controls and processes
• Ensure control evidence is accurately captured, maintained, and available for audit purposes
• Coordinate with external auditors and business stakeholders to facilitate audit delivery
• Track audit requests, deliverables, and testing activity, providing regular progress updates
• Support ceded reinsurance change initiatives and related process improvement activities
• Partner with business teams to identify control weaknesses and operational inefficiencies
• Educate and guide business process owners on compliance requirements and best practices
• Contribute to ad-hoc projects across Finance, Risk, and Operations as required

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Greater London, South East, England, GB