Senior Internal Auditor

Senior Internal Auditor

Requirements

• Ability to plan, organize, and communicate effectively
• Ability to collect and analyze data
• Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills and sound independent judgment
• Demonstrated effectiveness in collaboration and working with others
• Knowledge of audit standards, procedures, techniques, and internal controls
• Proficient in accounting and management principles
• Knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) internal controls testing and documentation requirements

Responsibilities

• Performs audits, using data analytics where applicable, to verify accuracy and ensure compliance with plans, policies, and procedures proscribed by management, develops the audit scope, evaluates risks, develops an effective audit program, and conducts interviews with personnel, performs the audit testing.
• Adequately explains and documents all audit testing, findings, and recommendations. Uses analogies, visuals etc. to effectively communicate complex ideas. Drives conversations and communicates in a clear and concise way.
• Demonstrates the ability to remain agile and understands their role in helping implement change within the organization. Takes responsibility for personal behavior and actions. Maintains a positive attitude towards change. Brainstorms solutions when faced with change.
• Delivers clear and sufficient evidence to support observations, testing, conclusions, and recommendations. Reviews workpapers and provides effective coaching to team members (when applicable) regarding such areas as pertinent information, logical order, and legibility and neatness of workpapers.
• Prepares the audit report summarizing the audit findings, exceptions, and recommendations for oral and written audit reports to management. Summarizes audit findings and preliminary recommendations, with appropriate indication of risk, for review by the Director/Manager of Internal Audit for clarification of facts.
• Encourages productivity and efficiency by having a strong focus on getting results and proactively identifying and implementing effective solutions while ensuring quality is a priority.
• Performs testing to evaluate design and operational effectiveness of SOX internal controls.
• Evaluates the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls and identifies control weaknesses, participates in developing the recommendations for cost-effective solutions in an effort to ensure that Avangrid’s assets are safeguarded, accounting records are accurate and in accordance with GAAP, Company policies, procedures, and legal and regulatory obligations are adhered to.
• Provides assistance to external auditors, when applicable, related to SOX internal control testing reliance.
• Conducts follow-up reviews on audit finding recommendations and management actions. Participates in ongoing reviews that track and appraise the implementation of the audit recommendations.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the principles of the identification, assessment and management of risk and uses this knowledge to assist in risk assessment exercises, including the identification of risk and assessment of the control design relative to risks.
• Identifies and uses appropriate methods to gain an understanding of the area or topic under review, its operations, and its processes, including any regulatory, compliance, or legal impacts. Leverages research to drive effective audit design, build complex test approaches, and build credibility with business areas by demonstrating sufficient knowledge of relevant subject matter.
• Demonstrates basic awareness about judgmental or statistical sampling techniques. Can analyze data trends, correlation, deviation, gaps, age, median, average etc.
• Demonstrates the ability to participate in several projects at once, while managing their individual workload and successfully delivering assignments to the expected quality within the agreed timeframes.
• Evaluates and communicates any known or potential weakness in company financial and accounting policies, systems, tools, processes, and controls uncovered during audits.
• Gathers and reports data for measurements of audit benchmarking capabilities and improvement effort priorities.
• Periodically works with a diverse global team on specific multi-national audits.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an auditor in a public accounting or industrial firm is preferred.
• 3+ more years of experience in an auditing, accounting or related field is preferred.
• Knowledge of engineering and relevant utility experience preferred.
• Experience with auditing public company SOX internal controls is preferred.
• Experience with Data Analytics tools is preferred.
• CPA, CIA and/or CFE certification is strongly desired but not required.