Senior Auditor – Audit Programs
Steel Point Solutions
Internal Auditor
University System of Maryland
full-time
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Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $95,900 - $100,900 per year
Job Level
Entry Level
About the role
- Lead and manage audit engagements ranging from straightforward reviews to complex, multi-faceted audits.
- Develop tailored audit programs, oversee all phases of the audit process, and collaborate with other lead auditors to ensure high-quality outcomes.
- Perform operational and financial audits pertaining to all aspects of USM activities: planning, researching, interviewing, conducting field-work, and reporting.
- Ascertain whether university organizational units perform planning, accounting, custodial, or control activities consistent with university objectives and policies.
- Perform audits in accord with approved audit programs consistent with IIA's International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.
- Recommend methods of obtaining, analyzing, and evaluating evidentiary data to form opinions on adequacy and effectiveness of controls and efficiency of activities under review.
- Suggest methods for implementing new or revised procedures to provide effective internal control and improve audit trails.
- Evaluate accounting and reporting systems' ability to generate reliable and timely data and analyze cost accounting systems.
- Discuss observed conditions with operating personnel to verify facts and obtain explanations; apply automated auditing techniques when reviewing computerized data.
- Function as lead auditor in charge of other auditors on certain engagements and orient new auditors into the Internal Audit Department.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university.
- Candidate for a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or CPA certification.
- 3 years of professional full-time audit experience.
- Proficiency in technical writing.
- Proficient in selecting and administering appropriate accounting and auditing theories, principles, techniques, and practices.
- Capable of applying applicable precedents and understanding auditing trends, developments, procedures, and legislation controlling the activity or function audited.
- Ability to clearly, concisely, and effectively prepare and present both written and oral reports.
- Able to gain the cooperation of and cooperate with others and to visualize the effects of recommended changes.
- Must possess tact, persuasiveness, sound judgment, and integrity.
- Preferred: CIA or CPA certification.
- Preferred: Professional auditing experience with a large public accounting firm or a government or educational audit organization.
