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Email this article. Reporting directly to the audit committee chair of Allstate Insurance Companyâs board has its pros and cons, says Kathy Swain, head of the insurance giantâs 52-person internal-audit team. âThe pro is that I can maintain this distance from the company,â she says.
âItâs absolutely critical to the success of analyzing whatâs going on in the business. The con is that, from a career standpoint, Iâm a part of the company but Iâm not a part of the company. I spend my time criticizing everything.â. Kathy Swain, Senior VP of Internal Audit, Allstate. As senior vice president of internal audit, however, Swain reports in dotted-line fashion to the companyâs CFO, Steven Shebik. As part of the finance chiefâs staff, she gets an inside view of the C-suiteâs appetite for risk and the ethical tone it wants to set.