Controls Testing & Data Analytics Specialist

Randstad is looking for a Controls Testing & Data Analytics Lead Specialist to join an Enterprise Fraud Risk Management team for a prominent Washington DC-based client. This fully remote 12-month contract role bridges the gap between traditional internal audit and modern data analytics. You will be responsible for evaluating testing and continuous monitoring of control environments across the enterprise to mitigate a vast landscape of financial operational and cyber fraud risks. Operating in a newly established program you will have a direct hand in shaping the control testing framework making this a perfect fit for a vocal detail-oriented audit professional who leverages data to build stronger safeguards.

• Design execute and manage data-driven control testing procedures to identify gaps and vulnerabilities across enterprise-wide risk vectors.
• Develop and implement continuous monitoring scripts and analytical models to track control effectiveness in real-time.
• Collaborate with finance internal stakeholders and technology teams to help management build and optimize robust fraud control activities.
• Evaluate anomalous data flags and compile comprehensive structured insights to facilitate clean handoffs to investigators when control failures occur.
• Provide proactive recommendations to leadership to mature and better define the overarching fraud risk management framework.

• Strong core background in Internal Audit Control Testing or SOX compliance is highly required.
• Proven technical capability to leverage data analytics (e.g. SQL ACL IDEA or similar data tools) to automate and scale control testing rather than relying solely on manual auditing.
• Thrives in an unstructured evolving environment and possesses the problem-solving mindset necessary to establish processes from the ground up.
• Exceptional collaborative and vocal communication skills to actively influence control owners and make strategic process suggestions.
• Experience auditing within the construction industry infrastructure or project-heavy environments is a significant plus.

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Drug Screen : No