Senior Internal Auditor / Internal Auditor

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

Are you ready to apply your audit, risk, and governance expertise towards PGE’s exciting and sustainable future? To help enable this transformation, we are seeking an experienced Internal Auditor or Senior Internal Auditor to join our Internal Audit Services team. This is an opportunity to apply your financial and business knowledge and critical judgment to execute risk-driven and advisory engagements that provide visibility and value-driven results across the organization. In this role you can contribute to the future of PGE’s assurance and advisory practices across a variety of emerging risks, areas of growth, operational practices, compliance requirements, SOX/financial disciplines, technology areas, and emerging activities in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting.

To be a part of our integrated Internal Audit Services team encompassing technology, safety and financial/operations specialists, we are looking for a candidate with demonstrated, exceptional verbal and written skills, risk acumen, and passion for value-added results.

PGE supports career progression, and this role will be filled at the level commensurate with the successful candidate’s applicable skills and experience at either the Internal Auditor or Senior Internal Auditor levels.

Key Scope and Areas of Impact: 

Senior Internal Auditor

Leads planning and fieldwork for audit and advisory engagements, data review and analysis, performing complex research, efficiently and effectively documenting work in support of reporting, coordinating and reviewing the work of others, and drives ownership of their work to meet engagement quality and timelines.
Drafts clear, concise, and progressive audit and consultation reports, making risk reduction and/or process improvement recommendations.

Internal Auditor

Supports audit and advisory engagements by performing prescribed assignments, including interviewing clients, developing process flows, workpaper documentation, and data review and analysis.
Performs control testing according to fieldwork procedures, including completing workpaper documentation, identifying exceptions, and communicating results to team members.

For Both Levels

Supports our clients by providing regular updates on risk mitigation activities and reporting as well as communicating conclusions to clients, including difficult and complex outcomes when necessary. 
Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial controls, including SOX audit planning, walkthroughs, control testing, and deficiency remediation testing.
Designs effective and efficient control test plans and performs control testing to enable management to assess the operating effectiveness of key controls.
Effective project management skills to monitor their own progress to ensure work is completed within agreed upon timelines.
Proactively engages with management on tracking and resolving remediations and other solutions to resolve previously identified risks through completed audit engagements.
Performs a variety of individual and department administrative tasks and implements process improvement initiatives.
Knowledge and understanding of the Institute of Internal Auditor’s IPPF framework for developing, conducting and reporting on audit engagements and consultations is preferred.

What you will bring to this role: 

For both the Internal Auditor and Senior Internal Auditor roles, a Bachelor’s degree in finance, computer science, liberal arts or other related field or equivalent experience is required