Director, Audit
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Job Location:
Salt Lake, UT - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Description
Responsibilities
Qualifications
The Audit Director:
- Oversees comprehensive audit functions for designated Church entities around the world.
- Leads and mentors audit teams ensuring high performance and professional growth.
- Develops strategic audit plans that align with Church objectives compliance requirements and risk profiles.
- Builds strong relationships with functional leaders providing useful insights and fostering collaborative improvement.
- Ensure regulatory compliance and effective risk management contributing to the Church more effectively achieving its mission through sound operational governance.
- Contribute to long-term planning and innovation establishing and carrying out priorities and improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
1. Leadership and Strategy
- Department Strategy: Contribute to long-term planning and innovation establishing and carrying out priorities and improvement initiatives.
- Audit Planning: Design and oversee risk-based audit plans aligned with Church objectives.
- Team Management: Lead and mentor audit teams ensuring high performance and professional development. Demonstrate strong project management abilities to handle simultaneous audit engagements maintain timelines and manage resources effectively.
- People Development: Coach and develop managers and direct reports.
- Trusted Advisor: Collaborate with Managing Directors Directors for Temporal Affairs and Affiliate Presidents to develop trusting collaborative relationships and provide strategic insights.
2. Risk Assessment and Control Evaluation
- Risk Oversight: Continuously assess risk frameworks and identify control weaknesses.
- Control Environment: Ensure robust internal controls across financial operational and compliance functions.
3. Project Execution and Reporting
- Audit Services: Oversee audits across financial IT operational and compliance areas. Demonstrate excellent analytical thinking attention to detail ethical judgment and adaptability in dynamic environments.
- Information Integrity: Ensure reliability of financial and operational data.
- Reporting: Demonstrate exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities to present complex issues clearly and advise executive leadership and the audit committee.
- Follow-up: Ensure timely implementation of corrective actions.
- Audit Standards: Uphold professional standards for quality and consistency.
4. Process Improvement and Efficiency
- Operational Efficiency: Identify opportunities for process improvements that enhance efficiency and improve the quality of Church and Audit Department operations.
- Technology Adoption: Leverage tools like generative AI data analytics and continuous monitoring.
5. Ethical Leadership
- Governance: Promote ethics and integrity in Church operations.
6. Audit Committee Engagement
- Presentations: Provide regular updates to the Audit Committee.
- Strategic Input: Provide strategic input on risk and governance issues to the Managing Director and advise on governance and risk management frameworks.
7. Regulatory Compliance
- Regulatory Awareness: Stay informed on legal and accounting changes.
- Global Compliance Services: Coordinate with compliance stewards and ensure appropriate audit coverage.
- Financial Reporting: Ensure controls over financial reporting are in place and functioning properly.
- External Audit Liaison: Facilitate external audits for affiliates.
Qualifications
- CPA CIA CISA CFE or an equivalent certification required; however candidates with extensive and progressive leadership experience directing compliance financial information systems or enterprise risk audit functions may also be considered.
- Bachelors degree in accounting finance or related field; masters degree preferred.
- Minimum 14 years of audit or accounting experience including multinational exposure.
- Extensive and progressive managerial experience in leadership roles with demonstrated strength in collaborating with functional leaders to address compliance financial internal control and operational challenges.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor audit teams manage complex and resource-intensive audit services and collaboratively develop strategic audit plans.
- Proven ability to support departmental staff through personnel and workplace matters.
- Deep understanding of internal controls risk management compliance business processes and project management.
- Demonstrate excellence in written and verbal communications.
- Perform work with integrity objectivity professionalism and competency.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Internal Audit
- Risk Management
- Information Technology
- Financial Controls
- Audit Methodology
- COSO
- GAAP
- COBIT
- SOX
- Special Investigations
- External Auditors
- Financial Statements
- Accounting and Finance
- CPA
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