Cigna Looking for Chief Accounting Officer – Cigna Investment Management (CIM) – Hybrid at Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States Full Time

Full Job Description

Overall Objective:

Lead the Company’s investment accounting
team and collaborate with Cigna’s Investment Management (CIM)
leadership team to optimize investment strategies for The Cigna
Group’s $30 billion investment portfolio. The Cigna Group is a leading
global health services and insurance provider whose invested assets
primarily include public and private corporate bonds, real estate, and
alternative investments. If you are passionate about investments, have
entrepreneurial spirit, and a disciplined accounting mindset, we
encourage you to apply.

Role Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with the CIM leadership team and actively
  participates in strategy consultation and deployment.
• Interacts with enterprise and business segment Chief
  Accounting Officers to discuss investment matters and to deliver
  quarterly and annual reporting packages.
• Collaborates with
  corporate finance to assess hedging strategies and implementation.
• Interacts with M&A leadership team to assess investment
  accounting impacts from potential transactions and to collaborate on
  execution.
• Leads a staff of 15+ accountants responsible for
  U.S. GAAP and Statutory Insurance compliance for the Company’s $30
  billion investment portfolio that spans multiple asset types including
  securities, real estate, and alternative investments.
• Interacts with the head of corporate policy to interpret and
  implement emerging regulatory guidance impacting the investment
  portfolio.
• Partners with Finance and other Business areas to
  execute on enterprise projects.
• Interacts with external audit
  partners, internal audit, and state examiners.
• Identifies,
  develops, and maintains an efficient and well documented control
  environment.
• Manages, develops, and retains employees to
  build an innovative and collaborative culture.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in
  business administration with accounting major.
• Minimum of
  10-12 years of relevant experience, national accounting firm
  preferable.
• CPA highly desirable.
• Strong strategic
  mindset and influencing skills.
• Successful experience
  operating in a matrixed environment in a large multinational company.
• Strong writing, communication, interpersonal and presentation
  skills.
• Proven ability to interact effectively with all
  levels within the organization.
• Excellent organizational and
  team building skills.
• Strong technical, analytical, and
  problem-solving skills.

This position supports Cigna
Investments, Inc., an investment adviser registered with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The successful
candidate will become an Access Person of CII required to comply with
the personal trading requirements and restrictions contained in CII’s
Code of Ethics. These requirements and restrictions apply to the
Access Person and all securities transactions in accounts in which an
Access Person has a Beneficial Interest.

If you will be working at
home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be
obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service
provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps
upload.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful
starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The
Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of
those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth
Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our
clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and
improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without
regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including
pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to
lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran
or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or
familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public
assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected
by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require
reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process,
please email: for support. Do not email for an update on your
application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a
response.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves
the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is
legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use
tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they
enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of
their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona,
Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.