Center of Excellence

The establishment of a global Center of Excellence in Internal Audit marked a major milestone in Sompo’s transformation journey. By integrating internal audit teams from Sompo Holdings, Sompo International, Sompo Japan, Himawari Life, and Sompo Care, we’ve built a unified function that strengthens how we manage risk, uphold governance, and drive long-term value creation.

With shared platforms like TeamMate+ and real-time JSOX testing, the team is driving consistency, speed, and transparency across the Group. At the same time, a new global Center of Expertise is developing future-ready talent by fostering curiosity, agility, and knowledge exchange across geographical regions.
This unified function’s use of data analytics and AI is sharpening foresight and enabling deeper insights that help guide business decisions with greater speed and confidence. As a result, Internal Audit is evolving from a traditional control function into an embedded strategic advisor with executable action plans.

This Center of Excellence model reflects a mindset shift. It positions Internal Audit as a trusted partner in building a stronger, more resilient Sompo. It is about operating with clarity and purpose, anticipating what’s next, and ensuring we are always ready to meet tomorrow’s challenges together.

Global Finance is setting the pace for how aligned financial leadership can create long-term value at scale. Through closer integration across Sompo Holdings and Sompo International of our capital policy, financial strategy, investments, and our communications with investors, we are building a more connected, forward-looking, and performance-driven function.

In 2024, Sompo exceeded record profit levels, improved capital efficiency, and executed disciplined share buybacks while maintaining ample capacity for growth investments. The Finance function played a key role in advancing these outcomes through strategic asset allocation, enhanced ROE management, and investor engagement initiatives that lifted the Group’s market valuation and adjusted P/B ratio.

At the same time, we are strengthening our foundation through smart investments in talent and digital infrastructure. Generative AI is now being applied in financial planning and analysis, while new HR systems are accelerating career mobility and alignment across regions.

This Center of Excellence approach is enabling Finance to operate as a truly global partner to the business. It is helping to drive performance, build investor trust, and ensure Sompo is well-positioned for long-term, sustainable growth.

The creation of the Group Communications function marks a major step forward in how we connect, engage, and grow as One Sompo. By aligning the communications capabilities of Sompo Holdings and Sompo International, we’ve established a unified global team that brings together diverse expertise, perspectives and energy to communicate our organization’s single strategic vision.

This alignment is creating new opportunities for collaboration to strengthen and grow our global reputation, enabling us to amplify the capabilities of our businesses. With a stronger alignment on priorities and a deeper sense of purpose rooted in shared values, colleagues across regions are now more connected than ever.

In 2025, Sompo International launched Workvivo, a vibrant internal engagement platform that is now being rolled out across Sompo Holdings and Sompo Japan. By enhancing how we communicate our priorities, align teams, and strengthen cultural integration across the Group, this platform is becoming a shared space for all our people to collaborate and contribute to our global culture.

Group Communications plays a crucial role in strengthening our shared identity, aligning our focus on management and business objectives, and connecting diverse geographies and cultures. This development exemplifies how the Center of Excellence approach is making us stronger – uniting us as one team with one vision for the future.