Job DescriptionJob SummaryResponsible for leading and developing teams of auditors in the execution of multiple complex IT, operational, compliance, and risk-based audits. Provides strategic direction, coaching, and oversight to ensure audit objectives, quality standards, timelines, and departmental methodology requirements are achieved. Ensures audit work is performed in accordance with professional auditing standards and internal audit methodologies, including appropriate planning, risk assessment, documentation, testing, and reporting. Evaluates the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls and assesses management's implementation of controls to mitigate business, technology, cybersecurity, and compliance risks. Reviews audit findings and recommendations to ensure they are practical, well-supported, risk-based, and aligned with organizational objectives. Communicates audit results, risk exposures, and improvement opportunities to operating management and senior leadership. Partners with stakeholders to strengthen governance, risk management, and internal control processes, while identifying, assessing, and monitoring emerging risks across the organization. Oversee remediation validation activities and monitor management action plans to ensure identified control deficiencies are effectively addressed.
Job Responsibilities- Plans, organizes, and implements audit programs. Simultaneously performs a wide variety of complex operational audits through the application of Company and professionally accepted auditing standards and accounting policies and procedures. Carries out the annual audit plan. Assists in developing this plan via a risk assessment exercise and mapping of ERM risks. Adjusts audit programs as needed.
- Ensures the quality of audit reports and other deliverables including planning documents, audit field work, and audit reporting. Ensures these practices and other administrative practices are consistent with established professional standards, company policies and procedures, and department objectives.
- Defines and utilizes audit techniques to document and determine the effectiveness of internal controls (i.e. interviews, observing, flow charting, compliance and substantive testing, and data analytics).
- Develops and fosters a cross-functional team approach, providing audit management support to all levels of the business team.
- Presents audit findings effectively to business division management and Senior Management. Assists and mentors audit teams with verbal and written communications. Monitors and reports to Senior Management regarding the disposition of the audit results (findings and recommendations); evaluates whether the corrective action taken by management is sufficient to resolve the issues that have been raised.
- Improves the efficiency and effectiveness of operations within the department. This includes eliminating non-value-added activities, initiating and implementing improvement efforts, and seeking out new value added opportunities.
- Leads teams independently while supervising the auditing procedures of the Auditor(s) assigned to project and reviews working papers and files for accuracy and completeness. Manages multiple complex audit projects as a project leader. Identifies developmental needs of members assigned to project teams and develops suggestions to address those needs. Acts as mentor to team members on projects and provides on the job training. Schedules work, assigns responsibility, and delegates authority for assigned projects.
- Demonstrates a commitment to core values.
External Basic Qualifications- Bachelor's Degree and at least 2 years of experience in accounting, finance, business management, information technology or auditing OR a High School Diploma/GED and at least 5 years of experience in accounting, finance, business management, information technology or auditing.
- Experience in analyzing and assessing risk in business or system processes, evaluating internal controls and developing recommendations.
- Experience articulating and communicating information and ideas to company management verbally and in multiple written styles (persuasive, informative, narrative) in order to.
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
- At least 1 year of cross-functional team leadership experience.
- Willing to travel up to 30% of the time for business purposes (domestically and/or internationally)
Preferred Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Computer Science, or Management Information Systems (MIS).
- Five or more years' experience in IT auditing, information security, risk management, or a related discipline.
- Experience performing business and IT process risk assessments and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls.
- Experience leading complex audits, reviewing workpapers, managing audit teams, and ensuring audit deliverables meet quality and timeline expectations.
- Experience leveraging data analytics, automation, or continuous monitoring techniques to improve audit efficiency, coverage, and risk identification.
- Experience identifying operational, compliance, and technology risks and recommending practical solutions to improve processes, strengthen controls, and mitigate risk.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty while adapting to and driving organizational change through process improvements and operational efficiencies.
- Experience auditing IT general controls (ITGCs), automated controls, application controls, cybersecurity programs, cloud technologies, data analytics, and ERP systems, including SAP.
- Experience assessing compliance with SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA, Privacy, HITRUST, and other regulatory or industry standards.
- Professional certifications such as Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), or equivalent.
- Strong project management, time management, prioritization, and organizational skills, with the ability to lead multiple concurrent projects and meet competing deadlines.
- Experience leading audits, managing stakeholder relationships, mentoring team members, and presenting observations and recommendations to senior leadership.
We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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