Principal Internal Auditor, Audit Business Risk Office

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Job Description:

What You’ll Do

• The Principal, Internal Auditor, plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of Internal Audit as a function and ensuring value is provided to the company. This role will support the Internal Audit Business Risk Office, in addition to assisting in various regulatory commitments. Additionally, this role will support the function with various Audit Excellence initiatives throughout the department to continually enhance the quality of the Internal Audit function.

• Uses operational and technical skills to support department objectives. Assigned to a schedule of audit reviews where they will follow the DFS Internal Audit methodology providing strategic direction on the audit, supervise and oversee the completion of the entire audit for assigned audit staff as clients' interviews, review of business processes, controls identification and assessment, testing of key controls, findings development and communication with clients to develop and follow up on action plans.

• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

• Provides support and thought leadership for various activities such as Audit Excellence initiatives, effective challenge of change management efforts and additional adhoc efforts as they arise.

• Stay informed of emerging risks throughout the organization, advising leadership and the broader Internal audit team on necessary adjustments.

• Collaborate with leadership to define project goals, scope, and deliverables.

• Ensure alignment of action plans with organizational objectives and requirements.

• Facilitate post-project evaluations to identify successes and improvement areas.

• Maintain documentation of project activities, ensuring transparency and accountability.

How You’ll Do It

• Manages assigned audits and audit tasks pursuant to department guidelines and within established timetables with high quality results. Oversees the follow-up on actions from the audit. Demonstrates knowledge of Internal Audit Methodology. 

• Provides oversight, direction and feedback to the audit team 

• Participates in completion of the quarterly risk assessment 

• Participation in special projects 

Qualifications You’ll Need

The Basics

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences, Engineering, Business Administration or Management, Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Analytics or related field.

• 4+ years of Applied Sciences, Engineering, Operations, Accounting , Finance, Business or related field, Computer Science, Data Science, or related experience.

Physical and Cognitive Requirements

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.

• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job. 

• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

• Travel up to 10% of the time.

Bonus Points If You Have

• 2+ years in a Leading public accounting or consulting firm, highly regulated environment, payment network and related technology services, Six Sigma or related experience

• Business, Six Sigma, Risk, STEM or related certifications preferred

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-t