Financial Operations Auditor II

At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work—one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment. As an energy industry leader, our career opportunities fuel personal and professional growth.

About the role

The Staff Auditor is responsible for executing financial, operational, compliance, and special audits across MPC and MPLX business activities in accordance with the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing and enterprise methodology. This role supports the full audit lifecycle—including planning, risk assessment, testing, and reporting—to evaluate the effectiveness of controls and identify risks that may impact the control environment, financial integrity, or achievement of business objectives. The position partners with audit leads, management, and business stakeholders to support audit scoping, perform testing, document workpapers, and communicate observations.

Responsibilities

• Perform Staff Auditor functions for financial, operational, compliance, and special audits on MPC’s and MPLX’s business activities in accordance with International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing and enterprise methodology to identify risks and controls that may impact the integrity of the control environment, financial information, or achievement of business objectives.
• Assist in team planning efforts by conducting business unit interviews and preparing walkthroughs. Participate in opening and closing conferences. Keep the audit lead and audit manager informed of audit status and respond to supervisor review and feedback.
• Ensure risks are appropriately identified, ranked, and articulated in the Risk and Control Matrix (RACM), and the audit is appropriately scoped to include relevant risks/controls for testing.
• Actively participate in advisory reviews for new processes and systems design to provide an independent assessment of project management and control effectiveness.
• Assist with designing and documenting an appropriate audit program and test plan to address all risks in assigned areas. Complete testing and gather sufficient evidence of control execution, including use of data analytics to select optimal samples for testing. Validate potential exceptions with audit clients and perform self-review of work.
• Logically and concisely document work/testing performed to support observations and conclusions utilizing established documentation protocol.
• Document test of control results in conformance with department methodology; annotate workpapers sufficiently to support Lead and Manager reviews; ensure conclusions reached on control effectiveness are sufficiently supported.
• Identify opportunities to leverage data analytics to facilitate more meaningful audit scoping and test procedures (e.g., stratification and selection of a high-risk audit sample, full population testing, etc.); engage with the DT&I Team to retrieve data needed for analysis and leverage current analytics tools.
• Document complete and accurate observations (on control design and effectiveness), communicate control observations with audit clients prior to the exit meeting, and present audit observations in closing conferences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Audit, or related field required.
• Two (2) years of audit, accounting, or business experience required.
• Professional Certifications preferred: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), or other related industry certifications.
• Large company experience may be preferred.

Travel

Up to 15%

Pay

$70,400.00 - $105,400.00 per year

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• Paid time off
• 401k matching program
• Paid parental leave
• Educational reimbursement
• Discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program

Schedule

Full time, regular employee subgroup

Locations

• San Antonio, Texas (19100 Ridgewood Pkwy)
• Denver, Colorado
• Findlay, Ohio (Main Bldg)
• Houston, Texas (One Allen Center)