Sr. Auditor

Join Zurich's Group Audit team and be part of a global community dedicated to keeping Zurich safe. We strive for excellence and creating the best function for our company, our people, and our communities. We embrace and leverage the diverse skills our team brings to provide valuable insights to our stakeholders. We have a real passion for high performance, collaboration, and innovation.


If you are looking to thrive in a dynamic and fulfilling environment, we invite you to join us on our journey. We are currently seeking a Senior Auditor to join our North America team.

This position will be based in our North American headquarters in Schaumburg Illinois. This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office activity, and two days working remote.

In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of audit engagements, collaborating with audit team members across Group Audit. With the support of the Senior Audit Manager and Audit Manager, you will develop a deep understanding of the business and its risks. You will co-develop high-quality audit approaches and reports that provide key insights and influence stakeholders in Zurich North America.

You will work in and support a collaborative, learning, and supportive team environment. You will contribute to strategic priorities and learn and apply innovative audit approaches, new world skills (Data Analytics, IT fundamentals, and GenAI), and Agile methods.

Your main responsibilities will involve:

• Audit Delivery : Support the delivery of the audit plan by completing your assigned audit with quality, on time and within budget.
• Stakeholder Relations : Build and maintain strong, transparent, and constructive relationships with stakeholders during audits - with support from your leader.
• Reporting: Contribute to drafting impactful issue summaries. Help prepare audit business-oriented reports to senior management.
• Learning Culture: Take ownership of your development in business technical, new world, and human skills, actively applying a growth and learning mindset.
• New World Skills: Actively enhance your new world skills: Data, IT and GenAI. Recognize their importance in delivering optimal audit outcomes and future-proofing your skillsets.
• Working AsOne: Show an AsOne mindset by c ollaborating and engaging with team members across the global Group Audit function.
• Ethics and Integrity: Conduct audit work in line with the Audit Methodology and applicable standards. Consider improvements raised through Quality Assurance reviews together with your leader.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 4 or more years of experience in Finance, Accounting or Audit (compliance, financial, operations) OR a combination of each.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within Internal Audit, Risk Management or Compliance. Preferably in the Insurance or Financial Services Industry
• Experience within complex, fast moving and international organizations.
• Good understanding of audit methodology, Internal Audit Standards and internal control frameworks.
• Good understanding of insurance concepts
• Experience with and good understanding of new world skills (DA, ITGC and GenAI)
• Good project management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively and consistently deliver high-quality outcomes on time.

Your pay at Zurich is based on your role, location, skills, and experience. We follow local laws to ensure fair compensation. You may also be eligible for bonuses and merit increases. If your expectations are above the listed range, we still encourage you to apply-your unique background matters to us. The pay range shown is a national average and may vary by location. The proposed Salary range for this position is $75,800.00 - $124,100.00, with short-term incentive bonus eligibility set at 10%.

We offer competitive pay and comprehensive benefits for employees and their families. [Learn more about Total Rewards here.]

Why Zurich?

At Zurich, we value your ideas and experience. We offer growth, inclusion, and a supportive environment-so you can help shape the future of insurance. Zurich North America is a leader in risk management, with over 150 years of expertise and coverage across 25+ industries, including 90% of the Fortune 500®.

Join us for a brighter future-for yourself and our customers.

Zurich in North America does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, age, disability, protected veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy or other characteristics protected by applicable law. Equal Opportunity Employer disability/vets.

Zurich complies with 18 U.S. Code § 1033.

Please note: Zurich does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies. Preferred vendors should use our Recruiting Agency Portal.

Location(s): AM - Schaumburg
Remote Working: Hybrid
Schedule: Full Time
Employment Sponsorship Offered: No


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