Audit & Risk Management Auditors

Hamilton-Ryker; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 76,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Priority Personnel in San Antonio, TX is seeking an Audit & Risk Management Auditor to strengthen internal controls and ensure compliance with financial, operational, and regulatory standards.

You will assist in planning, interview business units, document tests, and execute audit programs, including SOX testing, with data analytics support to identify risks and improve control effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Perform Staff Auditor functions for financial, operational, compliance, and special audits.
• Assist in team planning efforts by conducting business unit interviews and preparing walkthroughs.
• Identify and rank risks in RACM, and ensure audits are scoped to relevant risks/controls.
• Design and document audit programs and test plans; perform testing and gather evidence.
• Document observations and test results to support conclusions; use data analytics where appropriate.
• Financial SOX testing specific is required.

Responsibilities

• Perform Staff Auditor functions for financial, operational, compliance, and special audits.
• Assist in team planning efforts by conducting business unit interviews and preparing walkthroughs.
• Identify and rank risks in RACM and ensure audits are scoped to relevant risks/controls.
• Assist with designing and documenting an audit program and test plan; complete testing and gather sufficient evidence.
• Document test results and observations; communicate with audit clients; participate in exit conferences.
• SOX testing is required.

Job description

Priority Personnel is seeking Audit & Risk Management Auditors for a company located in San Antonio, TX.
Pay Rate: $55-$70

Job Duties:

• Perform Staff Auditor functions for financial,operational, compliance, and special audits on MPC’s and MPLX’s business activities in accordance with International Standards forthe Professional Practice of Internal Auditingand enterprise methodology to identify risksand controls that may have an impact on theintegrity of the control environment, integrity offinancial information, or achievement ofbusiness objectives.
• Assists in team planning efforts by conductingbusiness unit interviews and preparingwalkthroughs. Keeps the audit lead andaudit manager informed of audit status andresponds accordingly to supervisor review andfeedback.
• Starts to ensure risks are appropriatelyidentified, ranked, and articulated in the Riskand Control Matrix (RACM), and the audit isappropriately scoped to include relevantrisks/controls for testing. Actively Participatesin advisory reviews for new processes andsystems design to provide an independentassessment of project management andcontrol effectiveness.
• Assist with designing and documenting anappropriate audit program and test plan toaddress all risks in assigned areas. Completestesting and gathers sufficient evidence ofcontrol execution and including use of dataanalytics to select the optimal samples fortesting. Validates potential exceptions withaudit clients and performs self-review of work.
• Logically and concisely documents work /testing performed to support observations andconclusions utilizing establisheddocumentation protocol.
• Document test of control results logically andconcisely in conformance with departmentmethodology; annotate workpapers sufficientlyto support Lead and Manager reviews; ensureconclusions reached on control effectivenessare sufficiently supported. Starts to identify opportunities to leverage dataanalytics to facilitate more meaningful auditscoping and test procedures (e.g., stratificationand selection of a high-risk audit sample, fullpopulation testing, etc.); engage with the DT&ITeam to retrieve the data needed for analysisand leverage the use of current analytics tools.
• Document complete and accurateobservations (on control design andeffectiveness), communicate controlobservations with audit clients prior to the exitmeeting and present audit observations inclosing conferences.
• Financial SOX testing specific is required!