Senior Auditor

Senior Auditor

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or relevant field such as Finance, Accounting, Business, or Information Technology. Four additional years of related experience beyond minimum required may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• 4 years of audit, financial, insurance, banking, information technology or related business and/or leadership experience.
• Experience performing internal audits, external audits, or applying audit, risk, or compliance acumen in a complex operational and regulatory environment.
• Demonstrated experience effectively communicating and challenging Controls with business partners and leaders.
• Understanding of risks and internal controls and the ability to evaluate and determine adequacy and efficiency of controls.
• Demonstrated experience in highly dynamic environment undergoing change; ability to deal with competing priorities.
• Executes and may lead as Auditor in Charge (AIC) for audit engagements throughout the audit life cycle, to include understanding of horizontal and vertical business impacts, integrating audits with Information Technology (IT), analytics, and projects.
• Ensures engagements are completed objectively, professionally, timely and in accordance with corporate and industry audit standards, when AIC.
• Manages day to day engagement-related efforts including work delegation to audit team members with varying degrees of expertise and experience when conducting engagements, when AIC.
• Completes audit team end of engagement evaluations, when AIC.

Responsibilities

• Independently executes audit test work timely and with high quality.
• Assists in updating the risk & control matrix for each engagement with oversight from the Auditor-in-Charge and/or other Audit leadership.
• Identifies control weaknesses and opportunities for improvement in the current operating environment; develops recommendations for corrective action.
• Assists AIC in drafting related issues and audit reports for review by audit leadership.
• Participates and provides feedback during team audit activities on planning and scoping, business understanding/walkthroughs, and review of risk assessment and testing and demonstrates critical thinking ability.
• Executes on audit documentation techniques including key risks and controls alignment to audit test objectives and conclusions; is accountable for completing work paper documentation within quality standards.
• Utilizes analytical skills to conduct or assist team members with continuous monitoring activities, advisory activities, special reviews and/or investigations.
• Develops internal and business leader and partner relationships while also beginning to effectively challenge, communicate and deliver risk-based, difficult messages regarding issues and control weaknesses to ensure proper risk assurance coverage.
• Provide coaching and guidance to less experienced team members to ensure quality and timely completion of audit test work.

Preferred Qualifications

• AML experience within any line of defense. This includes but is not limited to experience related to Sanctions, Transaction Monitoring, Suspicious Activity Reporting, and Know Your Customer (KYC).
• Ability to complete CAMS certification upon 1 year of hire.