Senior Internal Auditor

Senior Internal Auditor

The Senior Internal Auditor role involves executing financial, operational, and compliance audits to enhance risk management and internal controls. The ideal candidate should have strong analytical and critical thinking skills, effective project management skills, and a thorough understanding of GAAP, GAAS, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), banking, and financial services regulations.

Major duties and responsibilities include leading operational and compliance audits from planning through reporting and communication with senior management, applying Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) risk assessment standards and critical thinking for issue identification and root cause analysis, drafting audit reports and communicating issues with business process owners to ensure timely corrective actions, overseeing or performing follow-ups on audit findings to confirm effective implementation of management's corrective actions, developing productive relationships with management and stakeholders, mentoring audit staff in report preparation and documentation of findings and recommendations, managing multiple projects, and actively participating in fieldwork completion.

Qualifications include a bachelor's degree in accounting or finance required, a master's degree in accounting, finance, or business administration preferred, required audit certifications including CPA, CIA, CFE, or CISA, 3-5 years of experience in banking or financial services internal audit and/or public accounting, strong analytical and critical thinking skills for assessing complex compliance and operational processes, excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to interact at all management levels, effective project management skills, general understanding of AI and related technology-based techniques, proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Visio, and leadership skills to supervise, lead, and develop team members.