Staff Operations and Compliance Auditor

Staff Operations and Compliance Auditor

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or Economics from an accredited school.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create efficient and realistic individual work plans, which provide a reasonable means for meeting the objectives of assigned work.
• Develop and maintain a baseline understanding of the relationship between specific assignments with that of other team members.
• Manage competing priorities pertaining to assigned work and proactively coordinate with other audit team members to resolve priority conflicts.
• Complete assigned work timely and in accordance with established standards and budgets to achieve quality results.
• Make decisions on issues within appropriate authority.
• Pursue audit work with enthusiasm and a drive to meet or exceed expectations.
• Coordinate the work of the team by appropriately managing responsibility, sharing credit, demonstrating initiative, and being committed to Internal Audit team goals.
• Exhibit openness and professionalism in receiving feedback from supervisors and customers.
• Demonstrate commitment to client satisfaction and the services of Internal Audit.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement within each audit or project.
• Promptly present suggestions or concerns to the audit team lead and propose recommendations to establish an effective control structure.
• Schedule and prepare for client meetings.
• Take initiative to develop business and organizational knowledge during each audit or project.
• Develop an adequate understanding of relevant business unit/function principles and standards to assess how these factors would impact audit work.
• Build an awareness of industry issues and trends to apply this understanding to audit decisions.
• Obtain and analyze data as a basis to develop an objective opinion on the adequacy and effectiveness of the system of activities being reviewed.
• Analyze and recognize issues that should be communicated to audit team lead.
• Survey functions and activities to determine the nature of operations and adequacy of the system of control to achieve established objectives.
• Demonstrate basic understanding of Internal Audit systems applications and tools (e.g. Microsoft Office Products, Tableau, ACL, and Archer).
• Coordinate with IT team members pertaining to technology-based risks present in audited area.
• Make effective use of available technology and software in streamlining audit projects and enhancing the quality of outputs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Pursuit of a professional certification such as CIA, CISA, CFE or CPA desirable.
• Up to 3 years audit related experience preferred, but not required.
• Insurance industry experience is desirable.