East Berlin, CT, 06023, USA
23 days ago
Senior Internal Auditor (Hybrid)
**Our Team** We have an exciting opportunity to join our amazing internal audit team\. Our Senior Internal Auditor supervises or performs all aspects of internal audit work\. Responsibilities include planning, coordinating, and performing several audits or other assigned tasks concurrently throughout all areas of the Eversource system\. The types of audits include financial, operational, and environmental\. Other job duties may include consulting and investigative assignments\. This position also interfaces with many levels of Eversource management\. **The role is based in Berlin, CT\.** **Essential Functions** + Under the guidance of the Manager\-Internal Audit or Vice President of Internal Audit & Security, the Senior Internal Auditor carries out the following primary duties, with a minimum of supervision\. + Financial, operational, and information system audits\. + Consulting assignments to assist management in developing solutions to various business problems\. + Investigations of potentially fraudulent activities\. + Appraisals of systems, functions, policies, procedures, and activities, to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of operations and the adequacy of internal control\. + Assists with directing, counseling, and training other staff assigned to audits, and assists in reviewing their work for quality, and accuracy \(including review and approve workpapers and other supporting documentation which supports audit conclusions\)\. + Develops documentation of existing internal controls over the financial, operational, and information systems activities of the department or areas under audit\. Identifies and evaluates key control points\. + Determines audit scope and objectives\. Discusses scope, objectives, timing, and reporting process with Internal Audit and client management\. + Develops and documents the audit program and associated audit testing techniques, including interviews with all levels of management and performing compliance and substantive audit tests as detailed in the audit program\. + Evaluates the adequacy and effectiveness of procedures and internal controls \(both manual and electronic\) over the area under audit\. Also, comments, where appropriate, on the quality of performance relating to the activities under audit\. + Develops audit findings and presents such findings and recommendations for corrective action to appropriate management personnel at closing conference meetings\. + Conducts meetings and presentations with operating management to update progress, communicate audit results, and obtain concurrence with audit recommendations\. + Prepares the audit report to senior management on assigned projects, with few revisions by Internal Audit management\. + Assists in the preparation of the Internal Audit Department 's comprehensive corporate risk analysis and annual audit plan of the Eversource system\. + Appraises the adequacy of management responses to audit recommendations and follows up to evaluate the corrective action taken\. + Participates on various Company or key departmental task forces, committees, special studies, or projects as assigned\. + Coordinates activities with external auditors, consultants, regulatory authorities, and various Eversource departments\. + Trains staff auditors in audit techniques and tools and provides feedback regarding auditor performance\. + Performs more complex and confidential internal audit/consulting assignments, studies, and investigations\. + Assists in preparation of materials required for Senior Management and/or Audit Committee meetings\. + All work is conducted in accordance with The Institute of Internal Auditors International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing, the Internal Audit Department Charter, and the Internal Audit Department Manual\. + Auditors are expected to demonstrate high ethical standards, maintain an appropriate degree of objectivity, and protect the confidentiality of persons and information\. **Technical Knowledge/Skills** + Advanced knowledge of internal control systems and auditing/ consulting concepts, techniques, and principles\. + Advanced knowledge of fraud concepts\. + Advanced knowledge of data analytic concepts and the ability to implement the concepts in assigned work\. + Experience working with Microsoft Office products, specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint\. + Understanding of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Treadway Commission Report, Sarbanes\-Oxley Act, and other laws and regulations and industry standards affecting internal auditing\. + Demonstrated ability to independently appraise and analyze complex information, determine facts, assess risk, and make decisions and recommendations accordingly\. + Demonstrated ability to conduct and/or supervise concurrent audits/assignments and to arrive at sound conclusions while under the pressure of time constraints or sensitive situations\. + Advanced knowledge of accounting, business management, and regulated and unregulated utility industry concepts\. + Demonstrated ability to communicate and work effectively with all levels of the company and with counterparts in outside organizations\. + Ability to make presentations based on written studies or to present ideas not currently documented\. + Understanding of Eversource's functional responsibilities, business systems, internal controls, pertinent policies, practices, and procedures\. + Proficiently write clearly, concisely, and effectively to a variety of audiences and dealing with difficult subject matter \(technical and/or sensitive to the reader\)\. + Ability to understand and apply personnel management concepts\. + Demonstrated ability to document audit work in a clear and organized manner\. **Experience** + Minimum of six \(6\) years of relevant auditing and/or accounting experience is required\. + Team leadership experience in the areas of Internal Auditing and/or Accounting is preferred\. + Prefer experience that includes a combination of auditing for an accounting firm and within private industry\. + A highly credible individual with unquestionable ethics and integrityrequired\. **Licenses & Certifications** + Must hold a valid motor vehicle driver’s license\. + Certification in an auditing\-related discipline \(Certified Internal Auditor \- CIA, Certified Public Accounting \- CPA, Certified Professional Environmental Auditor – CPEA\) is required\. **Education** + Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university\. A business\-related degree is preferred; however, nonbusiness degrees \(environmental studies, engineering, liberal arts, computer science, environmental science, data science\) may be considered to provide the Internal Audit department with a mix of perspective\. + An advanced degree \(i\.e\., Master of Business Administration \- MBA\) or certification in an auditing\-related discipline \(Certified Internal Auditor \- CIA, Certified Public Accounting \- CPA, Certified Professional Environmental Auditor – CPEA\)\. **Working Conditions** + Work is performed primarily in an office environment which requires sitting, standing, and general movement throughout the office area\. + Flexibility to travel within our service territory to perform assignments\. + Must be able to work emergency storm assignments as required\. + Our hybrid schedule is 90 days in the office and then move to hybrid flexible schedule\. **Compensation and Benefits** Eversource offers a competitive total rewards program\. The annual salary range for this position starts at $103,870\.00 to $115,410\.00, plus incentive\. Salary is commensurate with your experience\. Check out the career site for an overview of our benefits\. \#corpajd \#LI\-ES3 **Worker Type:** Regular **Number of Openings:** 1 **EEO Statement** Eversource Energy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer\. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability status, or protected veteran status\. VEVRRA Federal Contractor **Emergency Response:** Responding to emergency situations to meet customers’ needs is part of every employee’s role\. If employed, you will be given an Emergency Restoration assignment\. This means you may be called to assist during an emergency outside of your normal responsibilities, work hours and location\.
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