**Candidates can sit in the following locations: Charlotte, NC | Texas | Tampa, FL | Phoenix, AZ**
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the lead AIC and main contact for the business during audit engagements.
- Direct and execute complex audits, continuous monitoring, advisory activities, special reviews, and investigations.
- Conduct detailed audit testing, aligning key risks and controls with objectives, and assign issue severity.
- Manage tasks and assignments of the audit team, guiding members of varying expertise as the AIC.
- Independently update and maintain the risk and control matrix for each engagement.
- Verify the accuracy of audit reports and document continuous monitoring activities.
- Review team members' work, provide feedback, and complete end-of-engagement evaluations.
- Ensure audits are conducted objectively and professionally, adhering to standards, and recommend severity ratings to senior management; may communicate with regulators.
- Guide team members in using audit systems and tools to create queries and reports.
- Analyze data from multiple sources to ensure valid conclusions from audit testing.
- Identify control weaknesses and improvement opportunities, recommend corrective actions, and draft related audit issues and reports with oversight from leadership.
- Lead audit planning, scoping, risk assessment, and testing activities, demonstrating critical thinking.
- Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support strategic objectives and communicate risk and control issues effectively.
- Provide mentorship and on-the-job training to team members, ensuring their development and delivery of audit engagements.
- Share insights from audit results to help leadership update risk profiles and assessments for engagements.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business or related area of study such as Finance or Accounting
- 6+ years of experience executing internal/external audits or applying risk/compliance expertise in a highly regulated environment
- Strong audit methodology with proven experience executing full life-cycle audits
- Exceptional understanding risks & internal controls
- Experience in 2nd Line testing or regulatory examinations desired
- Professional certifications such as CIA, CRMA, CPA, or other related certifications is highly desired
