Audit Professional 4

About the role

This position performs audits, investigations and advisory services that encompass financial, compliance, functional and operational reviews of complex and diverse areas as a service to management in accordance with professional auditing standards, including those in specialized areas as health sciences for which there may be no existing precedent or structure.

Responsibilities

• Composes reports to auditee management which include audit observations and recommended changes.
• Composes and presents reports to promote recommended changes.
• Conducts the most complex audits with a high degree of autonomy including those in specialized areas such as health sciences and assist management in developing applicable policies, procedures and internal controls including the health sciences area.
• Provides advisory services to management, including School of Medicine and executive campus management.
• Performs various full scope examinations (including surveys, reviews and consultations).
• Performs data analytic procedures using general audit software (i.e. Microsoft Excel and TeamMate Data Analytics).
• Participates in assigned workgroups and committees.
• Conducts any other assigned projects.
• Plans and conducts investigations, including any related to health sciences and communicates results of investigative work.

Requirements

Advanced knowledge of the audit profession, theories and systems of internal control, and professional auditing standards.
Broad and thorough knowledge of finance, accounting, business and systems operations.
Skills to determine and apply appropriate policies and practices in the completion of audit assignments.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work independently with all levels of University personnel, including management and faculty, and to facilitate agreement on issues and corrective actions.
May require specialized expertise in enterprise software and relational databases.
Superior communication skills to effectively and professionally communicate using tact and diplomacy with internal and external campus community personnel.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training.
• Experience: 6 - 10 years of related experience, including substantial and progressive experience performing audits, advisory services and investigations.
• Experience: Experience in conducting internal financial, operational, functional and compliance audits in accordance with IIA and UC standards.
• Experience: Experience in performing Investigations.
• Experience: Experience in performing data analytics.
• Experience with automated TeamMate working papers.

Skills

• Advanced knowledge of Accounting Principles and IIA Standards.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Skill in editing and formatting documents in word processing applications and creating spreadsheets and reports using appropriate software application.
• Skill in entering data into databases or spreadsheets.
• Experience using e-mail messaging and automated calendaring systems.
• Professional integrity, independence of attitude and objectivity.
• Advanced skill in analyzing policy issues, policies and procedures and other directives and form solid recommendations.
• Advanced skill in independently researching questions and making appropriate contacts for problem solving.
• Advanced skill in analyzing information, problems, situations, practices, or procedures to identify relevant concerns, identify patterns or tendencies, formulate logical and objective conclusions.
• Skill in working independently and following through on assignments with minimal direction.
• Skill in setting priorities that accurately reflects the relative importance of job responsibilities.
• Skill in performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature.
• Skill in translating observations, findings, and recommendations from analytical studies into a concise and logical written report.
• Skill to independently compose letters, memos, reports, and other written communication materials, for a variety of audiences, using correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, composition, text editing and proofreading skills including knowledge of correct English grammar.