Senior Auditor - Banking Products

U.S. Bank; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Disability and parental leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Corporate Audit Services Senior Auditor to support centralized audit activities, including planning, testing controls, and reporting on audits. The role emphasizes risk identification and effective, cost-conscious remediation.

The Senior Auditor will lead engagements as needed, supervise staff, and contribute to standards and continuous improvement across the audit function.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Typically more than five years of applicable experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan audits and assess risk and control design.
• Supervise staff auditors in testing controls and gathering evidence.
• Draft audit issues, root causes, and actionable recommendations.
• Assist in reporting and wrap-up phases of audits.
• Collaborate with management and learn from coaching.

Skills

Risk management

Regulatory knowledge

Audit planning

Data analysis

Communication

Project management

Stakeholder management

Certifications

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Audit software

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

The Corporate Audit Services (CAS) Senior Auditor role will work with limited oversight to support centralized audit team activities, including continuous monitoring, management reporting, quality initiatives, and departmental projects. The role will support execution of audit engagements and other projects in a contributor or lead role depending on complexity. The Senior Auditor is expected to understand risk and risk management techniques, identify and analyze business processes, and key risks and controls. The position involves planning, executing, and reporting on a range of audit assignments.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assisting the audit team management in planning audit engagements. Includes understanding risk and risk management techniques; identifying and analyzing business processes, and key risks and controls; interviewing auditees; and evaluating control design adequacy.
• Performing or supervising staff auditors in the testing of controls based on audit program directions. Includes using appropriate sampling and control testing techniques; identifying and assessing the relevancy of possible issues; and documenting work performed to support audit scope/conclusions, to facilitate an efficient review, and to meet internal audit policies and procedures.
• Drafting audit issues under the supervision of the audit team management. Includes drafting potential exposures and significance, identifying appropriate root causes, and developing recommendations that are operationally effective and cost-effective actions to address those causes.
• Assisting the audit team management in the reporting and wrap-up phases of audits. Includes assisting with drafting audit reports.
• Learning from and applying coaching received.
• Performing other duties as requested by management.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Typically more than five years of applicable experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Advanced knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, financial services, and regulatory trends that impact their assigned line of business
• Advanced understanding of the business line’s operations, products/services, systems, and associated risks/controls
• Thorough knowledge of Risk/Compliance/Audit competencies
• Strong analytical, process facilitation and project management skills
• Effective presentation, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient computer navigation skills using a variety of software packages, including Microsoft Office applications and word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations
• Applicable professional certifications
• This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan