Internal Audit Lead

PowerGrid Services; Hartselle (AL); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

PowerGrid Services is seeking an Audit and Controls professional to support a remote-centric team with periodic travel to Hartselle, AL. You will assess key processes, test controls, and build risk-based audit methodologies to enhance financial integrity.

Collaborating with finance, operations, and IT, you will implement automated controls, perform data analytics, and prepare actionable audit reports with root-cause analysis and practical recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or information systems.
• 4 to 5 years of experience in internal or external audit, or controls and compliance.
• Hands-on experience testing controls, building work papers, and writing audit reports.
• Working knowledge of COSO and revenue, payroll, and procure-to-pay processes.
• Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel and ability to analyze large data sets for anomalies.
• Ability to deliver difficult findings with tact to leaders at all levels.
• Integrity, discretion, and sound judgment with sensitive matters.
• Self-starter comfortable working independently in a fast-growing environment.

Responsibilities

• Review key business processes and systems for control gaps, errors, and access issues.
• Evaluate user access, segregation of duties, and change management in core systems.
• Document risks and controls in narratives and risk/control matrices.
• Replace manual processes with automated, system-enforced controls.
• Use data analytics to move toward continuous monitoring.
• Write clear audit reports with root causes and recommendations; present to leadership.
• Track management action plans through remediation and report status.
• Coordinate with external auditors and outside specialists when needed.
• Reconcile contracts, orders, billing, and cash receipts to identify revenue issues.
• Test pricing, discounts, credits, and write-offs against policy; investigate anomalies.
• Test timesheets and labor records against receipts and schedules.
• Recommend controls and system settings to improve accuracy.

Skills

Analytical skills

Advanced Excel

SQL

BI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or information systems

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Audit analytics tools

ERP systems

Job description

Location: Remote Centric with travel to Hartselle, AL periodically

Key Responsibilities

Systems and process controls

• Review key business processes and systems (order to cash, procure to pay, payroll, financial close) for control gaps, errors, and access issues.
• Evaluate user access, segregation of duties, and change management in core systems.
• Document risks and controls in process narratives and risk and control matrices.

Automation and process improvement

• Partner with finance, operations, and IT to replace manual processes with automated, system-enforced controls.
• Use data analytics, such as Excel, SQL, or BI tools, to move from sample testing toward continuous monitoring.
• Advise on controls and audit trails when new systems and processes are selected and implemented.

Audit program and public-readiness

• Build a risk-based annual audit plan and an audit methodology, including work papers, templates, and reporting standards.
• Write clear audit reports with root causes and practical recommendations, and present them to leadership.
• Track management action plans through remediation and report status on a regular schedule.
• Coordinate with external auditors and, when needed, outside specialists on IT or testing.

Revenue assurance

• Reconcile contracts, orders, billing, and cash receipts to find unbilled, under-billed, mispriced, or uncollected revenue.
• Test pricing, discounts, credits, and write-offs against approved policy, and investigate unusual patterns.
• Quantify leakage, recommend fixes, and track recovery to closure.

Time-keeping and labor integrity

• Test timesheets and billable-hour records against supporting evidence such as schedules, project records, system logs, and approvals.
• Identify patterns of time padding, unapproved overtime, and policy violations, and handle findings fairly and discreetly.
• Recommend controls and system settings that improve accuracy, such as approval workflows, edit locks, and exception reports.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or information systems.
• 4 to 5 years of experience in internal audit, external audit, or controls and compliance, ideally across financial and operational areas.
• Hands-on experience testing controls, building work papers, and writing audit reports.
• Working knowledge of internal control frameworks, such as COSO, and of revenue, payroll, and procure-to-pay processes.
• Strong analytical skills, with advanced Excel and the ability to analyze large data sets to find anomalies.
• Ability to deliver difficult findings with tact, and to work with leaders and employees at all levels.
• Integrity, discretion, and sound judgment, including with sensitive matters such as time-keeping and employee conduct.
• Self-starter comfortable working independently and setting priorities in a fast-growing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or actively pursuing one.
• Big 4 or public accounting background, or experience at a high-growth or pre-IPO company.
• Experience with SOX 404 documentation and testing, or with a company preparing for an audit or IPO.
• Experience with SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or audit analytics tools.
• Experience with ERP, billing, and timekeeping or payroll systems, and with process automation.