Senior Auditor

Summary

Join ARC Group as a Senior Auditor for a Fortune 500 company in the Banking/Financial Industry. The ideal candidate will have an advanced degree, experience with Audit or risk control risk/controls, background in financial services, and 3+ years of relevant Audit and risk.

Requirements

• 3+ years Audit or risk control risk/controls background preferably in financial services
• Strong project management skills, proven organizational, coordination and action tracking skills
• Ability to plan, execute and evaluate audit test plans within a risk-based audit methodology
• Ability to work in a very detailed manner as well as to look broadly across a population and develop connections and themes identifying risk and concerns
• Ability to work as individual contributor remotely, attention to detail, ability to manage projects to completion
• Excellent organizational skills with keen ability to prioritize daily tasks with project work as well as ad hoc requests
• Ability to successfully communicate to influence management and lead change in both strategic and tactical initiatives
• Self-starter, desire to learn able to teach others, positive attitude, exhibits flexibility
• Strong team player skills and ability to work in a multicultural environment
• Proven verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and technical skills
• Solution oriented attitude
• Independent thinker

Responsibilities

• Understanding business processes, identifying material risks and mitigating controls
• Designing and executing audit tests to evaluate the control environment
• Assessing test exceptions (including related issues for business impact)
• Recommending issue severity ratings under the supervision of senior team members
• Executes audit strategy for the sound application of risk-based auditing by defining audit scope and audit program, and leverages automation and innovative methods in a timely and high- quality manner
• Develops skills to use innovative tools to complete audit activities more efficiently (e.g., testing)
• Validation of issue remediation by businesses
• Establishes business partner relationships, primarily with line management, to develop business knowledge
• Exercises sound judgment to effectively influence process and control owners to improve the control environment while developing knowledge of product, business, and technical expertise

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and/or Advanced degree
• Certified Internal Audit (CIA) certification
• Audit or risk control risk/controls background in financial services
• Prior Analytical / Automation Skills (SQL, SAS, Python. Alteryx, Advanced Excel)
• Certifications (CIA, CISA etc. – CPA)
• Strong Risk mindset (look beyond the form to focus on the substance)
• Financial services industry acumen
• Ability to process information and change audit focus quickly in line with risk assessments
• Ability to learn complex subject matter, understand regulatory requirements, and build testing programs to ensure compliance and mitigate risks
• Foundational knowledge of key Financial regulatory requirements applicable to APAC, EMEA & US
• Experience in performing end-to-end substantive testing. Understanding of statistical sampling testing approach is a plus