As a key member of the audit team the Internal Audit Associate assists with Financial Operational IT audits or investigations. Reviews and tests the design and effectiveness of internal controls for a specific portion of the audit. Identifies the need for recommendations and improvements in internal control.
Responsibilities:
- Assists with a variety of audits in accordance with audit programs through the application of established policies and procedures.
- Attends kickoff and closing meetings. May assist in preparing the agenda for these meetings.
- Utilizes audit techniques to document and determine the effectiveness of internal controls (i.e. interviews observation flow charting compliance and substantive testing). Able to independently identify risks in a given process.
- May participate in investigations being performed by the Internal Audit function.
- Based on changes or new information arising in the audit process adjusts to changes made to audit programs to address these changes.
- Identifies audit concerns and effectively communications as identified to audit team.
- Prepares draft audit findings including recommendations resulting from audit for formal report to immediate supervisor. Assists in preparing reports for reviews.
- Adheres to detailed project timelines.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in financial accounting business management computer science quantitative analysis or other business fields of study .OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 3 years of experience in financial/operational auditing or information technology auditing.
- Experience working with internal control concepts (risk and control).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function setting borders setting column width inserting charts using text wrap sorting setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme formatting character spacing inserting a picture changing slide layout and theme colors adding transitions customizing slide numbers changing chart style and/or formatting font).
- Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers page breaks page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
- willing to travel up to 15 of the time for business purposes
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in finance accounting business management computer science quantitative analysis or other business fields.
- Masters degree or MBA.
- Internship experience in an analytical role.
- Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
- Experience in the Retail Pharmaceutical Healthcare or Distribution industry.
- Experience working with statistical sampling procedures.
- Basic level skill in Microsoft Access (for example: opening a table in datasheet view entering data filtering data creating a form modifying a form layout applying themes running sorting and saving queries creating and formatting a report changing report test adding an image printing labels navigating through records and/or exporting to Excel).
- Experience evaluating information to determine compliance with standards laws or regulations.
- Experience working with Sarbanes Oxley requirements.