Director, SLC Finance Controllership

6 days ago


Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Sun Life Full time
Job Title: Director, SLC Finance Controllership

At Sun Life, we're committed to helping our clients achieve their financial goals. As a Director, SLC Finance Controllership, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the integrity of our financial reporting and controls.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Support the Managing Director, Financial Analytics and Controls in maintaining a strong controls environment to support financial reporting.
  • Ensure the controls environment is robust and flexible to respond to changes in business requirements and the regulatory environment.
  • Manage quarterly Controllership accountabilities, including the close process, attestation sign-off, and material errors reporting.
  • Act as a change management leader to drive continuous improvement within our culture.
  • Oversee the ICFR program, including risk assessment, annual plan development, documentation updates, walkthroughs, and control design and testing progress.
  • Establish key requirements and points of contact for the ICFR program.
  • Provide subject matter expertise on ICFR processes, working with process owners and external auditors to assess the implications of proposed changes.
  • Assess areas of higher risk within the organization and engage stakeholders to mitigate exposure to risk.
  • Lend expertise to process owners in reviewing errors or late entries, recommending improvements, and documenting events leading to errors.
  • Coordinate control assessments, establishing best practices while focusing on value-added change.
  • Act as a key liaison for external auditor independence matters, including engagement approvals, portfolio company listings, and annual fee reconciliations.
  • Coordinate evidence requests related to external audit engagements of multiple legal entities.
  • Lead the annual control report audits for SLC Canada and SLC US to provide SLC clients with comfort over the control environment.
  • Act as a key liaison for coordinating internal audits impacting SLC Finance and Operations, including quarterly discussions of audit reports and findings.
  • Manage the monthly general ledger close, chairing daily status meetings and providing overall sign-off of the general ledger to the Corporate Office.
  • Provide attestations to Finance Divisions confirming general ledger and financial statement accuracy, as well as coordinate key attestations by the Chief Investment Officer and Senior Managing Director Controllership.
  • Coordinate CFO/SMD and external audit QFR meetings on a quarterly basis.
  • Coordinate user access reviews for ICFR applications (SAP, CATT, Longview, Webseries, LAN, SP).
  • Coordinate account reconciliation reporting to Corporate Finance.
  • Represent SLC at various SLF level meetings related to the monthly close and general ledger.
  • Manage/oversee annual updates for SLC Finance related to business continuity (plan, business impact analysis, work from home test, etc.) and records management (records review and disposition) to ensure all requirements related to policy are met in a timely manner.
  • Ensure compliance with all requirements and deliverables for the End User Computing program, including maintenance of inventory, risk rankings, and compliance testing.
  • Develop and refine controls-related aspects of quarterly dashboard reporting for management.
  • Participate in ad-hoc requests or projects requiring consulting advice from a Controls perspective.


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