Senior Auditor, Audit Programs (SOX Compliance)
Alaska Airlines · SeaTac, WA · 1 mo ago
On-siteAccounting$100k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes "Company Alaska Airlines The Team ..." maybe that's about the team. Role Summary is a paragraph. Key Duties list. Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills Required list. Preferred Experience list. Job-Specific Leadership Expectations paragraph. Salary Range. Total Rewards list. Also maybe "Regulatory Information" is boilerplate to remove. Also "Apply by ..." and other metadata to drop.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Use for section headings. Use
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need sections: About the Team? The first paragraph about team could be "About the Team" or "About the role"? The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose appropriate headings. We have content: Team description (maybe "About the Team" but not in list). Could use "About the role" for role summary. Responsibilities for Key Duties. Requirements/Qualifications/Skills for Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills Required. Preferred Experience could be under "Preferred Qualifications" but not in list; maybe we can include under "Requirements" or "Skills". Since we prefer few substantive sections, we could combine required and preferred into one "Requirements" section. But we need to preserve all info; we can list both required and preferred under same section with subheadings? But we cannot add extra headings not in list? The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we can use those headings; we could also use other headings if needed? It says use those as examples; but likely we should stick to those. We'll create sections: About the role (role summary), Responsibilities (key duties), Requirements (job-specific experience, education & skills required + preferred experience), Benefits (total rewards), Pay (salary range). No Schedule info.
We must not include placeholder like "commensurate with experience". Salary range is specific.
We need to strip boilerplate: Equal Employment Opportunity, Government Contractor, Apply by, etc.
Also need to drop duplicated lines.
Let's extract content:
Company Alaska Airlines The Team Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies... (the team paragraph). We'll treat as "About the Team" but we can put under "About the role"? Actually "About the role" should be role summary. The team paragraph is about the company/team. Could be "About the Team" but not in list. Maybe we can omit? The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot drop that. So we need a section for it. Could use "About the role" heading but that might be inaccurate. However we could use "About the team" as heading; not prohibited. The instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those examples. Safer to use one of those headings that fits: maybe "About the role" can include both team and role summary? But role summary is separate. Could combine team description into About the role section as introductory paragraph. That would preserve info.
Thus:
About the role
[Team paragraph] [Role summary paragraph]
Then Responsibilities: list of duties.
Then Requirements: combine required and preferred.
Then Benefits: list of total rewards.
Then Pay: salary range.
We must not include Schedule.
Now extract specifics.
Team paragraph: "Company Alaska Airlines The Team Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you."
Role Summary: "The Senior Auditor, Audit Programs is a subject matter expert in audit risk assessment and control identification at Alaska Airlines (AS), Hawaiian Airlines (HA), and Horizon Air (QX). As an individual contributor, this role exercises considerable judgement to provide an independent and objective assessment of internal controls governing business, operational, and safety processes for Alaska Air Group (AAG) and its subsidiaries."
Combine into one paragraph maybe two sentences.
Now Responsibilities (Key Duties) list:
- Demonstrates project management and operational analysis by significantly contributing to audit engagement teams ranging from one to three professionals on risk-based reviews of complex business, operational and safety processes requiring independent judgement and initiative.
- Manages execution of all audit engagements in accordance with the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.
- Collaborates with senior management to develop solutions to complex business risks by developing actionable plans to resolve audit findings.
- Promotes risk management awareness and operational safety assurance throughout the organization by facilitating the development of tools and techniques that strengthen risk management and internal controls.
- Manages projects to support the performance of special reviews including, but not limited to, system implementations, internal investigations, cost-benefit analyses, safety/regulatory and/or corporate compliance investigations.
- Supports external reviews of company operating divisions by supporting both business and aviation-specific projects such as: annual external audits, the Department of Defense (DOD) surveys, and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Operational Safety Audit (IOSA).
Now Requirements (Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills Required) list:
- 3 years of experience in "Big 4" type public accounting/internal audit firm, or 4 years of experience in corporate internal audit, public company internal audit, or related area.
- Bachelor’s degree, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
- Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR), and/or public company financial reporting environments.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
- Minimal travel, approximately 10-15% of the time.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Minimum age of 18.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Preferred Experience list:
- Experience evaluating technology-enabled business processes and applying artificial intelligence (AI), automation, or data analytics tools to support audit activities.
- A Master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Data Analytics, Risk Management or Aviation specific.
- Risk-based auditing, project management, quality assurance, or operations analysis experience.
- Advanced audit qualification, (e.g., Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or similar, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or similar), or actively pursuing such certification.
- Strong understanding of risk-based auditing techniques.
- Demonstrated affinity for integrated audit approaches (e.g., IT audit knowledge, and/or data analytics tool experience, specifically Alteryx).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Professional curiosity, personal accountability for results, strong credibility with peers, subordinates, and leaders.
- Proven track record of working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment on complex projects.
- Process driven and a strong safety advocate; experience contributing to cohesive, results-oriented teams, and to deliver high-quality results within time budgets and in accordance with audit methodology and standards.
- Ability to understand, audit, and document complex business and operational processes, including effectively scoping audit projects and contributing to all project phases (planning, fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up).
We could combine required and preferred under Requirements with subheadings? But we cannot add extra headings not in list; but we could just list all items together, maybe separate paragraphs: "Required:" and "Preferred:" as bold text within ? But we need to use
- for any list. Could have two lists: one for Required, one for Preferred, each preceded by a
heading? But we cannot add extra headings; we could use
Required:
then ... then Preferred:
then . That's acceptable as we are not adding new section headings, just paragraphs.
Now Benefits (Total Rewards) list:
- Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air
- Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
- Generous 401k match program
- Annual bonus plans
- Generous holiday and paid time off
Now Pay (Salary Range) paragraph: "$99,850 -- $149,800 / year" plus note: "Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range."
We should include that as prose under Pay section.
Now ensure we removed boilerplate: Regulatory Information, Equal Employment Opportunity, Government Contractor, Apply by, etc.
Also drop duplicated lines like "Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time on 9/22/2026 Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time". Also drop "Employment Type Full-Time FLSA Status Exempt Regular/Temporary Regular L: \".
Now produce HTML fragment.
Let's craft:
About the role
Company Alaska Airlines The Team Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you. The Senior Auditor, Audit Programs is a subject matter expert in audit risk assessment and control identification at Alaska Airlines (AS), Hawaiian Airlines (HA), and Horizon Air (QX). As an individual contributor, this role exercises considerable judgement to provide an independent and objective assessment of internal controls governing business, operational, and safety processes for Alaska Air Group (AAG) and its subsidiaries.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrates project management and operational analysis by significantly contributing to audit engagement teams ranging from one to three professionals on risk-based reviews of complex business, operational and safety processes requiring independent judgement and initiative.
- Manages execution of all audit engagements in accordance with the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.
- Collaborates with senior management to develop solutions to complex business risks by developing actionable plans to resolve audit findings.
- Promotes risk management awareness and operational safety assurance throughout the organization by facilitating the development of tools and techniques that strengthen risk management and internal controls.
- Manages projects to support the performance of special reviews including, but not limited to, system implementations, internal investigations, cost-benefit analyses, safety/regulatory and/or corporate compliance investigations.
- Supports external reviews of company operating divisions by supporting both business and aviation-specific projects such as: annual external audits, the Department of Defense (DOD) surveys, and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Operational Safety Audit (IOSA).
Requirements
Required:
- 3 years of experience in "Big 4" type public accounting/internal audit firm, or 4 years of experience in
for prose. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need sections: About the Team? The first paragraph about team could be "About the Team" or "About the role"? The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose appropriate headings. We have content: Team description (maybe "About the Team" but not in list). Could use "About the role" for role summary. Responsibilities for Key Duties. Requirements/Qualifications/Skills for Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills Required. Preferred Experience could be under "Preferred Qualifications" but not in list; maybe we can include under "Requirements" or "Skills". Since we prefer few substantive sections, we could combine required and preferred into one "Requirements" section. But we need to preserve all info; we can list both required and preferred under same section with subheadings? But we cannot add extra headings not in list? The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we can use those headings; we could also use other headings if needed? It says use those as examples; but likely we should stick to those. We'll create sections: About the role (role summary), Responsibilities (key duties), Requirements (job-specific experience, education & skills required + preferred experience), Benefits (total rewards), Pay (salary range). No Schedule info.
We must not include placeholder like "commensurate with experience". Salary range is specific.
We need to strip boilerplate: Equal Employment Opportunity, Government Contractor, Apply by, etc.
Also need to drop duplicated lines.
Let's extract content:
Company Alaska Airlines The Team Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies... (the team paragraph). We'll treat as "About the Team" but we can put under "About the role"? Actually "About the role" should be role summary. The team paragraph is about the company/team. Could be "About the Team" but not in list. Maybe we can omit? The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot drop that. So we need a section for it. Could use "About the role" heading but that might be inaccurate. However we could use "About the team" as heading; not prohibited. The instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those examples. Safer to use one of those headings that fits: maybe "About the role" can include both team and role summary? But role summary is separate. Could combine team description into About the role section as introductory paragraph. That would preserve info.
Thus:
About the role
About the role
[Team paragraph] [Role summary paragraph]
Then Responsibilities: list of duties. Then Requirements: combine required and preferred. Then Benefits: list of total rewards. Then Pay: salary range. We must not include Schedule. Now extract specifics. Team paragraph: "Company Alaska Airlines The Team Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you." Role Summary: "The Senior Auditor, Audit Programs is a subject matter expert in audit risk assessment and control identification at Alaska Airlines (AS), Hawaiian Airlines (HA), and Horizon Air (QX). As an individual contributor, this role exercises considerable judgement to provide an independent and objective assessment of internal controls governing business, operational, and safety processes for Alaska Air Group (AAG) and its subsidiaries." Combine into one paragraph maybe two sentences. Now Responsibilities (Key Duties) list: - Demonstrates project management and operational analysis by significantly contributing to audit engagement teams ranging from one to three professionals on risk-based reviews of complex business, operational and safety processes requiring independent judgement and initiative. - Manages execution of all audit engagements in accordance with the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing. - Collaborates with senior management to develop solutions to complex business risks by developing actionable plans to resolve audit findings. - Promotes risk management awareness and operational safety assurance throughout the organization by facilitating the development of tools and techniques that strengthen risk management and internal controls. - Manages projects to support the performance of special reviews including, but not limited to, system implementations, internal investigations, cost-benefit analyses, safety/regulatory and/or corporate compliance investigations. - Supports external reviews of company operating divisions by supporting both business and aviation-specific projects such as: annual external audits, the Department of Defense (DOD) surveys, and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Operational Safety Audit (IOSA). Now Requirements (Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills Required) list: - 3 years of experience in "Big 4" type public accounting/internal audit firm, or 4 years of experience in corporate internal audit, public company internal audit, or related area. - Bachelor’s degree, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree. - Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR), and/or public company financial reporting environments. - Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook). - Minimal travel, approximately 10-15% of the time. - High school diploma or equivalent. - Minimum age of 18. - Must be authorized to work in the U.S. Preferred Experience list: - Experience evaluating technology-enabled business processes and applying artificial intelligence (AI), automation, or data analytics tools to support audit activities. - A Master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Data Analytics, Risk Management or Aviation specific. - Risk-based auditing, project management, quality assurance, or operations analysis experience. - Advanced audit qualification, (e.g., Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or similar, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or similar), or actively pursuing such certification. - Strong understanding of risk-based auditing techniques. - Demonstrated affinity for integrated audit approaches (e.g., IT audit knowledge, and/or data analytics tool experience, specifically Alteryx). - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Strong analytical skills. - Professional curiosity, personal accountability for results, strong credibility with peers, subordinates, and leaders. - Proven track record of working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment on complex projects. - Process driven and a strong safety advocate; experience contributing to cohesive, results-oriented teams, and to deliver high-quality results within time budgets and in accordance with audit methodology and standards. - Ability to understand, audit, and document complex business and operational processes, including effectively scoping audit projects and contributing to all project phases (planning, fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up). We could combine required and preferred under Requirements with subheadings? But we cannot add extra headings not in list; but we could just list all items together, maybe separate paragraphs: "Required:" and "Preferred:" as bold text within? But we need to use
- for any list. Could have two lists: one for Required, one for Preferred, each preceded by a
heading? But we cannot add extra headings; we could use
Required:
then- ... then
- Demonstrates project management and operational analysis by significantly contributing to audit engagement teams ranging from one to three professionals on risk-based reviews of complex business, operational and safety processes requiring independent judgement and initiative.
- Manages execution of all audit engagements in accordance with the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.
- Collaborates with senior management to develop solutions to complex business risks by developing actionable plans to resolve audit findings.
- Promotes risk management awareness and operational safety assurance throughout the organization by facilitating the development of tools and techniques that strengthen risk management and internal controls.
- Manages projects to support the performance of special reviews including, but not limited to, system implementations, internal investigations, cost-benefit analyses, safety/regulatory and/or corporate compliance investigations.
- Supports external reviews of company operating divisions by supporting both business and aviation-specific projects such as: annual external audits, the Department of Defense (DOD) surveys, and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Operational Safety Audit (IOSA).
- 3 years of experience in "Big 4" type public accounting/internal audit firm, or 4 years of experience in
Preferred:
then- . That's acceptable as we are not adding new section headings, just paragraphs.
Now Benefits (Total Rewards) list:
- Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air
- Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
- Generous 401k match program
- Annual bonus plans
- Generous holiday and paid time off
Now Pay (Salary Range) paragraph: "$99,850 -- $149,800 / year" plus note: "Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range."
We should include that as prose under Pay section.
Now ensure we removed boilerplate: Regulatory Information, Equal Employment Opportunity, Government Contractor, Apply by, etc.
Also drop duplicated lines like "Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time on 9/22/2026 Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time". Also drop "Employment Type Full-Time FLSA Status Exempt Regular/Temporary Regular L: \".
Now produce HTML fragment.
Let's craft:
About the role
Company Alaska Airlines The Team Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you. The Senior Auditor, Audit Programs is a subject matter expert in audit risk assessment and control identification at Alaska Airlines (AS), Hawaiian Airlines (HA), and Horizon Air (QX). As an individual contributor, this role exercises considerable judgement to provide an independent and objective assessment of internal controls governing business, operational, and safety processes for Alaska Air Group (AAG) and its subsidiaries.
Responsibilities
Requirements
Required: