Senior Internal Auditor

Senior Internal Auditor with a privately-held industry leader.
 

Summary

The Senior Internal Auditor will report directly to the Head of Internal Audit.  

Responsibilities

• Actively lead engagements from start to completion, including, planning, executing, and reporting.
• Serve as an end-to-end process, risk and controls expert in the development and maintenance of business processes (e.g., flowcharts), risk and control matrix, and advising process and control owners on internal control requirements, risk assessment, control design, and optimization strategies.
• Evaluate operational and financial processes to assess risk, internal control effectiveness, overall process efficiency, and provide clear actionable cost-effective recommendations.
• Lead and document process walkthroughs to identify and assess controls design / operating effectiveness to ensure alignment with internal control requirements.
• Develop and review testing procedures to ensure control evidence is sufficient and appropriately aligned to identified risks.
• Coordinate with process and control owners to drive awareness and understanding of control protocols, design standards, and enterprise control strategy.
• Lead with a transformational and forward-looking mindset to promote operational excellence, and to enhance governance, risk management, and internal control processes and practices across the organization by adopting best practice methodologies (e.g., risk-based, data analytics, quality assurance, etc.).
• Apply knowledge of risk and control trends to assess the significance of findings and develop communications with practical risk-aligned recommendations, and root-cause solutions for process improvements.
• Lead cost-sharing audits in relations to Company joint owner relationships, and gather evidence to support any amounts incorrectly billed.
• Participate in reviewing Company’s bond offering documentation, and performing quality reviews of financial information prior to release to the public.
• Participate in the annual risk assessment process to proactively identify risks and their impacts on objectives and goals to enable the required risk management /audit response.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in accounting or related field from an accredited college or university. 
• Relevant professional certification, e.g., CPA, CA, CIA, CFE, or equivalent professional certification.
• 5 – 8 years’ experience in internal audit, external audit, accounting, finance, risk advisory is required to successfully perform this role. Also, experience performing testing of design and operating effectiveness of controls.
• Deep knowledge and practical application of US GAAP, GAAS, COSO 2013, SOX 404 compliance, ITGCs, entity-level controls, SOC reports, and the IIA’s International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF).
• Strong technical foundation in internal auditing principles, risk assessment methodologies, and control evaluation across operational and IT domains.