Job Description

Description

SHIFT: Day Job

SCHEDULE: Full-time

Your Talent. Our Vision. At Anthem, Inc., its a powerful combination, and the foundation upon which were creating greater access to care for our members, greater value for our customers, and greater health for our communities. Join us and together we will drive the future of health care.

This is an exceptional opportunity to do innovative work that means more to you and those we serve at one of America's leading health care companies and a Fortune Top 50 Company.

Staff Vice President Internal Audit

The Staff Vice President is a leader of leaders and associates responsible for planning, developing and executing aspects of the internal audit function to ensure compliance with identified strategic goals and objectives, operating standards and applicable laws, policies and standards. This dynamic individual will be responsible for the planning, design, and execution of Anthems internal audit plan. The Staff Vice President position will manage a high-performing audit team to execute an audit plan that measures, evaluates, and recommends changes in financial, operational and managerial controls as required to protect assets, prevent fraud, and maximize operational efficiency for the organization. Other duties will include supporting the reporting requirements to Senior Management and the Board of Directors.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS
Reports to Vice President, Chief Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Officer
Staff 4-8 direct reports

Leadership Demonstrated ability to perform successfully as a leader of other leaders, teams and cross-functional groups. The successful executive will build the framework and environment to support our business in achieving human capital goals and support long-term growth to enable business success. Building strong, deep and highly functioning teams is a requirement.

Promote Anthem mission and culture Demonstrated success in building and leading successful teams with a culture that is committed to execution, collaboration, communication and a positive growth and learning environment for our associates. The application of regular coaching, timely performance management and active mentoring.

The successful candidate will have the ability to establish credibility and relationships at all levels of the organization, as well as a strong leadership profile, exceptional communication and presentation skills and an effective adaptive style across multiple stakeholder groups, continually espousing Anthems values-driven culture.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for directing internal audit teams and managing co-sourced external teams to ensure enterprise risks are appropriately managed.
- Build and lead a high-performing team that continuously advances insights and improves on the department's capabilities (i.e., processes, systems and environment) to deliver superior results and meet changing business needs.
- Assist in leading the continuous risk assessment process which leads to the enterprise audit plan and oversee the execution of this plan.
- Evaluate risk within assigned areas to ensure appropriate controls are in place and being applied consistently.
- Consult with and advise senior management on risk mitigation and areas of deficiency.
- As requested and/or needed, lead consulting engagements that assist management with certain risks or process improvements.
- Assist in reporting to the Audit Committee and providing audit status and detail related to various governance, process and/or internal control issues.
- Hire high-performing and talented associates; train and coach internal auditors to achieve excellent outcomes and performance; and evaluate the performance of direct reports.

Qualifications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION
- Bachelors degree in Accounting of Finance.
- CPA or CIA certification preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years experience performing financial and/or operational audits of large, complex and highly automated systems.
- 5+ years of management experience in building, mentoring, and coaching a team in an extremely fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Proven success in influencing senior executives and managers. Display personal agility to work across a wide array of businesses and stakeholders to develop the credibility to achieve results.
- Ability and demonstrated track record in architecting and executing large-scale, enterprise-wide initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience with change management strategies and implementation.
- Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively interface with senior management.
- Strong understanding of data and the ability to make data-based decisions and create compelling representations using data.
- Superior management skills and ability to influence and engage direct and indirect reports and peers.
- Strong empathy and ability to communicate effectively with diverse populations verbally and in writing.
- Results-oriented with superior problem-solving skills and ability to effectively manage varied resources to complete a task/project.
- Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills, including negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

Strategic Business Mindset

- By developing deep knowledge of the Anthems business model and the industry, builds trust and credibility with senior leaders and associates that leads to improved organizational effectiveness.
- Identifies ways to take functional action, providing compelling business value or clear business opportunities, which supports growth.
- Adds significant value beyond the Internal Audit functional area.

Building People Capability
- Uses structured, systematic, and transparent approaches to assessing and developing individuals and how they fit together in the team.
- Systematically develops whole team; develops individuals to build calculated team-wide bench strength and balanced capability.
- Identifies successors to key roles in organization based on a rigorous understanding of capabilities, experience, motivation and career development needs.
- Creates uniquely tailored career development plans for associates.

Collaborating and Influencing
- Facilitates discussions to enable people to collaborate with each other, promotes collaboration across multiple parties.
- Identifies and meets with key players and stakeholders to help them shape a position and engages in a dialogue to reach a final conclusion together, compromising as necessary for results without sacrificing an auditors independence or objectivity.
- Develops explicit understanding of which relationships are most important to the organization and its stakeholders, builds a network prioritizing these relationships.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Anthem, Inc. is ranked as one of Americas Most Admired Companies among health insurers by Fortune magazine and has been named a 2019 Best Employers for Diversity by Forbes. To learn more about our company and apply, please visit us at careers.antheminc.com. An Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran. Anthem promotes the delivery of services in a culturally competent manner and considers cultural competency when evaluating applicants for all Anthem positions.