Job Summary:
The Director of Financial Audits reports to the Chief Compliance Officer and is responsible for planning, organizing, and executing on multiple internal audit and advisory projects including process, operational and financial reviews. This role oversees testing of internal controls and fraud investigations. This role works with the leadership team and partners with others across the organization to identify process improvement opportunities and facilitating change. This position will sit in our Norcross, Georgia office with some travel to PruittHealth locations across the Southeast. Public Accounting highly preferred.
Major Tasks, Responsibilities, And Key Accountabilities:
• Partner with Corporate Accounting and process owners across the organization in the identification, documentation, and evaluation or finance, operational, regulatory, and IT risks, processes, and controls.
• Oversee all phases of the internal audit process including risk assessment, establishing objectives and scope of work, creating the work program, planning and execution of fieldwork, and preparation of audit reports.
• Develop risk-based test plans by selecting an appropriate audit approach, test procedures and sampling criteria based on professional judgment and internal audit methodology.
• Identify and research significant accounting, auditing and internal control issues during an audit and propose alternatives or solutions to reach acceptable resolutions.
• Prepare comprehensive audit reports detailing the results of the audit with a focus on providing insightful and value-added recommendations to all stakeholders.
• Partner with the Corporate Accounting Department and external auditors during quarterly reviews and the year-end financial audits.
• Work closely with process owners and external auditors to provide appropriate support in the performance of walkthroughs as well as internal control/substantive testing.
• Oversee remediation activities, including design and modification of controls.
• Provide coaching and guidance to control owners to help build a culture of compliance
• Build and maintain influential working relationships with management, peers, and other internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications:
Required Skills/Qualifications:
• Understanding of risk and control concepts and ability to apply these concepts to evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of business processes and controls to mitigate risk to tolerance levels defined by management.
• Accounting, Auditing, Financial Reporting, COSO Risk and Internal Control frameworks, and/or Sarbanes-Oxley
• Data analytic skills, utilizing data and transactions to identify errors and provide business insights, strong problem-solving skill
• Knowledge to plan, execute, review and analyze Control Design Assessments, Control Effectiveness Testing, and Outcomes Based Testing.
• Experience using Microsoft Copilot or other Artificial Intelligence tools to streamline Internal Audit activities, including content or workpaper generation and dataset analysis.
• Ability to maintain composure under pressure while meeting multiple deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively (both written and verbal) with all levels within the organization.
Preferred Qualifications:
• CPA or CPA candidate
• Public Accounting experience (Big 4 background is preferred)
