Sr. Associate, Internal Audit

Responsibilities

• Participate in audit scoping discussions with cross-functional teams (e.g., Finance, Operations, IT) and Audit Leadership to understand relevant risk, controls, and associated data sources supporting audit areas
• Conduct research and reference available documentation to develop the risk and control matrix to inform the audit scope
• Manage the collection, review, and storage of all supporting audit documentation within the audit system
• Coordinate audit interviews and process walkthrough, including the agenda, leading the discussion, and memorializing the outcomes/notes
• Create the initial audit testing workbook detailing the key risks and controls in the process and the subsequent testing plan (and testing attributes) required to provide reasonable assurance over the design and operating effectiveness of management's controls or insights needed for decisionmakers
• Manage outreach to stakeholders to request relevant data / system reports, and or other to support detailed analysis of control effectiveness, including the collection and review for completeness
• Perform audit testing, analyzing available datasets to identify patterns, outliers, and potential issues related to internal policies and business processes
• Document conclusions from testing, including a summary of the control effectiveness, and any identified instances of non-compliance / exceptions
• Communicate results of audit testing with the Audit Leadership and respective auditees to validate the accuracy of findings by confirming no additional data /documents exist that would explain any exceptions identified
• Quality self-review for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to program and audit techniques employed
• Escalate any critical audit issues appropriate management

Reporting Results

• Communicate issues and root causes with Audit Leadership and management of the area under audit and gain consensus on the path forward
• Draft initial materials to socialize results with auditees and department leadership

Other

• Participate in enterprise risk assessment activities, and conduct other audit engagements, including advisory engagements
• Maintain existing certifications and seek further certification where appropriate
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to monitor operational & other metrics and key risk indicators and support the development of continuous auditing and monitoring tools to proactively detect non-compliance