Citizens Financial Group, Inc

Sr Auditor

Citizens Financial Group, Inc$95K — $124K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years' experience in internal audit, risk management, or consumer banking.
  • Ability to work collaboratively and independently as needed.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills for multitasking.
  • Critical thinking skills to navigate tight deadlines.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and adherence to structured methodologies.
  • Strong verbal and written communication abilities.
  • Skilled in stakeholder relationship management.
  • Experience in training and developing junior team members.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel.
  • Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare for audits by reviewing relevant data and past findings.
  • Identify key risks and controls; design test plans to evaluate their effectiveness.
  • Conduct thorough testing using bank, industry, and regulatory standards.
  • Draft clear, comprehensive workpapers that adhere to audit methodology.
  • Communicate findings and issues to audit and management teams effectively.
  • Ensure effective remediation of identified risks.
  • Lead audit sections or smaller engagements while supervising junior auditors.
  • Execute routine auditing responsibilities like team scheduling and continual monitoring.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Robust retirement benefits.
  • Generous maternity/paternity leave policies.
  • Flexible work arrangements.
  • Education reimbursement programs.
  • Wellness initiatives and resources available.
  • Paid time off surpasses local and state requirements.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Senior Auditor - Consumer Lending

The Senior Auditor will participate in audit activities primarily relating to the Consumer Lending products, including credit cards, student loans, home equity lines of credit, and unsecured loans. The audits will cover the full product life cycle, including marketing, underwriting, account opening, servicing, collections, and recovery.

As part of our team, you're made ready for a fulfilling career with exciting new challenges and opportunities to stretch yourself. As the Senior Auditor, you will deliver a defined, typically high-risk aspect of audit engagement, through operational delivery of audit work under supervision, across Citizens' various business lines, in line with methodology, standards, and procedures. You will be responsible for executing audits to ensure that bank policies, processes, and procedures are being followed, and that internal controls are in place, adequate, effective, sustainable, and efficient. Most importantly, you will feel valued for who you are and supported to achieve what's important to you, personally and professionally!

Primary responsibilities include
  • Prepare for upcoming assigned audits by reading relevant background material and/or review prior audit work.
  • Identify risks and controls in key businesses and design test plans to assess the effectiveness of controls.
  • Perform detailed test work, applying bank, industry, and regulatory guidance.
  • Produce clear, complete, concise, and well-organized workpapers in accordance with Internal Audit's Methodology.
  • Present potential issue(s) and/or other relevant information to Internal Audit and business line management, effectively communicating key information.
  • Validate the remediation of issues to ensure risk is sufficiently mitigated.
  • Act as lead auditor on sections of large audit engagements or lead auditor on small audit engagements, with responsibility for supervision of Staff Auditors.
  • Execute certain routine team responsibilities, such as performance of continuous monitoring activities, team scheduling, or representing the Internal Audit team at meetings with business line management.

Qualifications, Education, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials
  • 3-5 years of experience in the field of internal audit, risk management, and/or consumer banking.
  • Ability to work in a team environment, and independently when required.
  • Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously using planning and organizational skills.
  • Ability to exercise critical thinking and work under tight deadlines.
  • A high level of accuracy and attention to detail and ability to follow structured methodology.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to effectively build and manage relationships with stakeholders.
  • Ability to train and develop junior team members.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel.
  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • Prior audit experience preferred.
  • Intermediate understanding of bank regulations and industry practices is a plus.
  • Travel 5 - 10%

Hours & Work Schedule
  • Hours per Week: 40
  • Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Pay Transparency
  • The salary range for this position is $95,000 - $124,000 per year, plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. Actual pay is based on various factors including but not limited to the work location, and relevant skills and experience.
  • We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens' paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of every local and state jurisdiction in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits.

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About Citizens Financial Group, Inc

Citizens Bank is a financial service company. It provides outstanding local and personalized service. It offers a full range of commercial, real estate, and consumer lending. It is specialized in personal and small business deposit services, electronic services.

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Learn more about Citizens Financial Group, Inc
Size
17,463 employees
Market Cap
$19.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1 billion
Founded
1828
5 Year Trend
+2.6%
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