University System of Maryland

Internal Auditor

University System of Maryland

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $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.