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We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.
Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
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📍 Location: New York, NY | Windsor, CT | Boston, MA | Atlanta, GA
✈️ Travel: Periodic domestic travel required
The SVP, Chief Audit Executive will lead Internal Audit and Financial Controls & Reporting (FCR) with enterprise accountability for ensuring confidence in:
- The integrity of financial reporting
- The effectiveness of internal controls (ICFR & SOX)
- Regulatory compliance across a complex, highly regulated environment
- The strength of governance and enterprise risk management
This is a highly visible leadership role, directly supporting the Audit Committee and executive team with objective, forward-looking insights that protect Voya’s reputation, financial integrity, and long-term success.
What You’ll DoEnterprise Audit & Controls Leadership- Lead Voya’s enterprise-wide Internal Audit and FCR functions, delivering coordinated, risk-based assurance across financial, operational, and regulatory domains
- Oversee the design, execution, and continuous improvement of ICFR, SOX, and financial controls frameworks
- Drive end-to-end visibility into control effectiveness, systemic risks, and remediation outcomes
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the Audit Committee and executive leadership, delivering clear, credible perspectives on risk, controls, and governance
- Translate audit findings into forward-looking insights that inform business decisions and enterprise strategy
- Partner closely with external auditors and regulators, ensuring confidence in governance and audit processes
- Provide independent assurance over financial reporting integrity and control effectiveness, while maintaining clear separation from control ownership
- Partner across Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Legal to align audit coverage with enterprise priorities
- Monitor and challenge management on the timely and effective remediation of audit findings
- Advance the audit function through automation, data analytics, and continuous controls monitoring
- Strengthen reporting and insights to be more proactive, risk-aware, and decision-oriented
- Identify opportunities to simplify, streamline, and enhance control environments across the enterprise
- Build and lead a high-performing Internal Audit and FCR organization with strong technical depth and enterprise mindset
- Establish clear governance, decision rights, and operating models that balance independence with execution excellence
You will:
- Establish credibility and trust with the Audit Committee, CFO, and executive leadership
- Deliver a risk-based audit and controls plan aligned to strategy and regulatory expectations
- Strengthen SOX and ICFR effectiveness, sustainability, and governance
- Enhance audit reporting to provide forward-looking, decision-useful insights
- Drive measurable progress in analytics, automation, and continuous monitoring
- Ensure timely remediation of high-risk issues with strong accountability and transparency
- Executive leadership experience in Internal Audit, Financial Controls, and SOX within a complex, regulated environment (financial services preferred)
- Deep expertise in ICFR, financial reporting risk, regulatory frameworks, and enterprise risk management
- Proven ability to engage and influence Audit Committees, regulators, and senior executives
- Track record of modernizing audit functions through data, automation, and continuous monitoring
- Strong leadership presence and the ability to build and develop high-performing teams
- Bachelor’s degree required; CPA, CIA, or advanced degree strongly preferred
This is more than an audit leadership position—it is a critical enterprise role at the center of trust, transparency, and governance.
You will help shape how Voya:
- Navigates risk in a dynamic regulatory environment
- Strengthens financial integrity and control effectiveness
- Builds confidence with regulators, shareholders, and employees
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Compensation Pay Disclosure:
Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$259,800 - $324,744 USDBe Well. Stay Well.
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
- 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
- Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
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Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:
- Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
- Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
- Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
- Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
- Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
Learn more about Critical Skills
Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.
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Skills Required
- Executive leadership experience in Internal Audit, Financial Controls, and SOX
- Deep expertise in ICFR, financial reporting risk, regulatory frameworks, and enterprise risk management
- Proven ability to engage and influence Audit Committees, regulators, and senior executives
- Track record of modernizing audit functions through data, automation, and continuous monitoring
- Strong leadership presence and the ability to build and develop high-performing teams
- Bachelor's degree required
- CPA, CIA, or advanced degree strongly preferred
Voya Financial Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Voya Financial and has not been reviewed or approved by Voya Financial.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) plan alongside pension savings plans and financial wellness resources aimed at budgeting, insurance protection, and retirement planning. This retirement stack is positioned as a differentiator within the overall Total Rewards approach.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Well-being support spans an EAP, behavioral health family support, chronic-condition programs, cancer support, and caregiving assistance. These programs extend beyond core medical coverage into ongoing lifestyle and mental-health support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, and dedicated volunteer time each year. The package also includes medical leave and disability-related supports that broaden time-away coverage.
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What We Do
Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), provides health, wealth and investment solutions that enable its approximately 14.8 million individual, workplace and institutional clients to achieve their financial wellness goals with confidence. With a vision to be America’s Retirement Company®, Voya’s products, solutions and digital capabilities help create a better financial future for all. Voya is a Fortune 500 company that had $7.6 billion in revenue in 2020 and $729 billion in total assets under management and administration as of March 31, 2021. Certified as a “Great Place to Work” by the Great Place to Work® Institute, Voya is equally committed to conducting business in a way that is socially, environmentally, economically and ethically responsible. Voya has earned recognition as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute; as the No. 1-ranked financial services firm among Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies for three consecutive years; as a member of the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index; and as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” on the Disability Equality Index.
