Internal Audit - Operational Project Lead

Internal Audit - Operational Project Lead

Description -

Job Summary
• This role is responsible for independently executing the entire audit process, from initiation to conclusion, with efficiency and autonomy. The role ensures project completion by prioritizing tasks, coordinating tasks, and delegating efficiently. The role contributes to audit planning; identifies opportunities for assurance, risk management, compliance and optimization enhancements; leads projects; delivers audit reports to senior management and stays updated on industry trends. The role also applies advanced subject matter knowledge, builds relationships, and provides mentoring to junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates and performs the entire spectrum of audit activities from inception to culmination, executing autonomously and proficiently with minimal assistance and guidance.
• Ensures project completion by prioritizing tasks, effectively delegating, monitoring progress, and foreseeing conflicts or dependencies within a complex framework characterized by demanding schedules.
• Contributes to the formulation of audit plans, evaluates the optimal timing for audit planning, and ensures meticulous audit engagement and coordination.
• Identifies avenues for enhancing assurance, process optimization, and compliance, and evaluates and suggests best practices to mitigate risk.

• Seeks opportunities to increase efficiency in business and audit processes, leveraging data analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI).
• Coordinates and escalates unresolved matters to the audit team and management for prompt resolution, utilizing fact-based analysis with defined risk exposure.
• Leads certain projects, scrutinizes audit data, and delivers formally documented audit results reports and recommendations to senior management.
• Reviews documentation, work papers, findings, and recommendations for concerned audits, offering constructive feedback on projects, and also conducts post-audit assessments.
• Stays up to date in industry insights, emerging audit methodologies, policies, and standards, utilized systems and applications, benchmarks, evolving risks and trends, and the organization’s Internal Audit (IA) landscape.
• Applies advanced subject matter knowledge, leads, and contributes to complex projects, and exercises independent judgment in resolving business issues and establishing policies.
• Develops and builds productive internal/external working relationships and may provide mentoring and guidance to lower-level employees.

Education & Experience Recommended

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 7-10 years of work experience, preferably in audit policies, operating principles, or a related field.

• Experience with risk management for large, complex, and dynamic organizations, including internal audit and/or "Big 4"-type advisory projects supporting internal audit functions.

• Experience with print, personal systems/computes, services business, supply chain, software, artificial intelligence application preferred.

Preferred Certifications
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
• Certified Public/Chartered Accountant (CPA/CA)
• Certification in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA)
 

Knowledge & Skills
• Accounting

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and application
• Audit Engagements
• Audit Planning
• Auditing
• Auditor's Report

• Automation
• Business Processes
• Data Analysis
• Economics
• External Auditing
• Finance
• Financial Services
• Financial Statements
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Internal Auditing
• Internal Controls
• Project Management
• Public Accounting
• Risk Analysis
• Risk Management
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Compliance

• Supply Chain

Cross-Org Skills
• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity

Impact & Scope
• Impacts function and leads and/or provides expertise to functional project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives.

Complexity
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.

The pay range for this role is $93,400 to $143,800 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related
knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

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