Lead Internal Auditor - Finance

At Fannie Mae, the inspiring work we do helps make a home a possibility for millions of homeowners and renters. Every day offers compelling opportunities to impact the future of the housing industry while being part of a collaborative team thriving in an energizing environment. Here, you will grow your career and help create access to affordable housing finance.

Job Description

As a valued colleague on our team, you will provide expert advice on, and guide the team in, assessing the design adequacy and operating effectiveness of controls within the Finance division. Your work will help strengthen and improve the risk and control environment of the Finance division. Specifically, this role will provide day-to-day leadership to Finance audits, including audits of key operational processes such as accounting, treasury and capital management and financial reporting.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE

The Lead Internal Auditor - Finance role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day project leadership ensuring projects are completed on-time and within scope and budget. Monitor team progress, manage project budgets, and provide technical guidance and informal coaching to other Auditors.
• Apply technical knowledge and expertise to lead internal audits and reviews across Fannie Mae’s Finance division. Use a risk-based approach to develop and adjust audit plans as appropriate and determine areas requiring additional analysis.
• Conduct first-level review of work and documentation, leveraging Audit Manager/Director guidance as needed. Review and finalize staff work papers and deliverables with Audit Manager/Director. Develop audit reports with Audit Manager/Director. 
• Inspire and motivate team members to achieve results.
• Engage in continuous risk assessments and monitoring of emerging and existing risks confronting Fannie Mae’s Finance division.
• Build and maintain relationships with business partners. Provide advice and share Internal Audit knowledge with business partner managers and staff to strengthen governance, risk, and control environments.

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experience

• 4 years of related professional experience

Desired Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Finance, Accounting, and/or Information Systems.
• One or more of the following certifications is strongly desired:  CPA, CISA, CIA
• 6 years of audit, risk management, or regulatory experience in a large and complex organization desired
• Ability to be flexible with changing priorities and able to manage multiple projects concurrently with minimal direction. Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion
• Experience with process, risk and control assessments, including evaluating the design adequacy and operating effectiveness of controls and identifying and assessing the risk impact of control gaps of operational and financial reporting processes.
• Experience providing credible challenge, both written and verbal, to management and stakeholder/customers.
• Experience communicating audit or risk assessment results, both written and verbal, to management and stakeholder/customers. Superior problem solving, critical thinking, and data analysis skills
• Influencing skills including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
• Relationship management skills including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, vendors, and building relationship networks.
• Skilled in information retrieval including fact gathering, conducting focus groups and interviews, and designing surveys
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
• Skilled in Microsoft Product Suite: MS Teams, Excel, SharePoint, Visio, Word
• Skilled in TeamMate for audit solutions
• Skilled in Alteryx for data analytics applications
• Experience using RiskWorks (MetricStream)
• Experience using Adobe Acrobat, SQL

Qualifications

Audit Internal Controls, Business Process Management Skills, Collaborating Cross-Functionally, Communicating Technical Information, Communication, Documentations, Influencing Skills, Internal Audit Controls, Internal Auditing, Internal Financial Audit

Education:

Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)

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