Internal Audit Specialist III

## Internal Audit Specialist IIIApply:
Irving, Texas:
Full time:
Posted 2 Days Ago:
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** Job Summary
** Plans, directs, and completes complex assurance and advisory/consulting audits of business processes or units, with particular focus on financial, operational, and compliance risks. Adheres to department audit methodology and utilizes technology-based audit techniques to perform required duties where appropriate. Leverages data analytics tools and techniques on traditional and continuous audits. Serves as the Auditor-in-Charge role on the project and may lead an integrated audit team crossing multiple business units.

Partners with management to develop meaningful risk-mitigating action plans for issues identified. Performs follow-up audit procedures on management actions resulting from assigned audits. Assists with the risk assessment and audit plan development process.
** Job Description
**** Key Accountabilities*
* • Responsible for ownership of all audit lifecycle phases for the assigned Internal Audit risk-based audit and advisory engagements, including on-time completion of projects, the project’s management and documentation within the audit project management system, and the project’s adherence to Internal Audit methodology and quality assurance requirements.
• Plans the assurance or advisory audit, including the development of the audit objectives, scope, time-line, and team assignments when applicable.
• Conduct interviews to gain an understanding of the processes/activities being audited and communicate the objectives/scope to the audit customer.  Audits assigned to this role frequently must be developed from scratch without prior audit programs to use as reference and must be designed by the auditor.
• Identify and assess the risks associated with the area under audit.
• Identify and evaluate the controls designed to mitigate the identified risks.
• Determine testing strategy appropriate for risks and controls identified, considering sampling methodology and opportunities to leverage data analytics.
• Test the controls for operational effectiveness/compliance and provide recommendations to address identified control gaps.
• Summarize issues identified and prepare the audit report.
• Collaborate with audit customers to advise valuable risk-mitigating control enhancement recommendations and process improvement considerations through assurance, advisory, and management request projects.
• Continuous updates to key audit stakeholders, including updates up through EVP.
• Pro-actively monitors open issue follow-up activities including remediation testing and issue close-out within the audit project management system.
• Assists with the annual risk assessment and audit plan development process via analysis of relevant data, participation in Enterprise Risk Management workshops, socialization of emerging risks with key stakeholders, and analysis of prior audit findings.  Suggests audit plan adjustments as applicable.
• Participation in, and ownership of, recurrent stakeholder discussions, including discussions with executives throughout the business.  Often sought out by leaders in the business to perform management requests or join task forces because of their expertise.
** Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements*
* • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or other related business discipline.
• Minimum 8+ years of audit or other relevant experience.
• Certification such as CPA, CIA, CISA, CCSA, CIDA, or CFE preferred.
• Previous experience in electric power generation,…