Internal Audit, Senior Associate

Job Description

As a valued colleague on our team, you will assist with planning, executing and reporting financial, operational and compliance related audits/projects to facilitate compliance with federal laws, corporate standards and generally accepted accounting principles.

The Finance - Internal Audit - Senior Associate role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Assist with audit planning and drafting initial audit scope. Document details of planning and walkthrough meetings. Assist in identifying controls to mitigate potential risk factors within assigned process/areas. Contribute to the development and maintenance of risk-based audit plans. Develop, document and execute audit test steps in partnership with more senior team members.
• Assist in evaluating controls and in identifying control gaps. Conduct substantive testing, such as tests of detailed activities and transactions or analytical review tests, to obtain audit evidence.
• Document and maintain sufficient supporting information (such as flowcharts of end-to-end business processes) and facilitate the presentation of findings and conclusions in accordance with work paper standards. Identify and discuss audit findings with audit team and document exceptions. Assist with drafting audit reports and other key deliverables.

Qualifications

• 2 years

• Bachelor degree or equivalent in accounting, finance, or business administration preferred

• CIA, CPA, CISA certification strongly preferred

• Internal or external audit experience preferred

• Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions
• The group of skills related to Information Retrieval including fact gathering, conducting focus groups and interviews, designing surveys, etc.
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
• The group of skills related to Risk Assessment and Management including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, remediating risk, etc.
• Experience evaluating businesses, projects, budgets, and other financial entities or instruments to determine viability, stability, and performance
• The group of skills related to Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.
• Skilled in creating visual concepts, creating content, and editing content by hand or with the help with computer software to communicate ideas
• Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
• Skilled in the graphical representation of information in the form of a charts, diagrams, pictures, and dashboards with programs and tools such as Excel, Tableau, or Power BI
• The group of skills related to Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
• The group of skills related to Communication including communicating in writing or verbally, copywriting, planning and distributing communication, etc.

• Skilled in the Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience with RPA technology and data analytic tools including: Blue Prism, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx and/or SQL, preferred

Additional Information

Requisition ID:REF6408Y

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