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 compliance enhancement, 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 may provide 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 compliance, evaluates and suggests best audit practices to mitigate risk.
• Coordinates and escalates unresolved matters to the audit team and management for prompt resolution.
• 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 Management Information Systems, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 7-12 years of audit experience, preferably in IT Audit, financial Audit or a related field.

• Big Four experience preferred.

Preferred Certifications
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Knowledge & Skills
• IT General Controls

• Systems Development Lifecycle

• IT Application Controls

• SOC Reports

• Systems Development Lifecycle

• Data centers, databases, reporting tools, key reports testing, interface testing, code reviews, IPE procedures, operating systems, network
• Audit Engagements
• Audit Planning
• Auditing
• Auditor's Report
• Business Process
• Data Analysis
• External Auditing
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Internal Auditing
• Internal Controls
• Project Management
• Public Accounting
• Risk Analysis
• Risk Management
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Compliance

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.

Disclaimer
• This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.