Staff Auditor

Texas Children's Hospital; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Children’s Hospital is hiring a Staff Auditor to perform independent assurance and advisory activities within a fast-paced healthcare setting. The role emphasizes risk-based auditing, control evaluation, and governance improvements to provide leadership with transparency on key risks.

Responsibilities include executing audits, documenting interviews, analyzing evidence, and delivering clear work papers and reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field required.
• CPA certification from the state of Texas preferred.
• CIA issued by The Institute of Internal Auditors preferred.
• 2 years’ experience in an internal audit and/or accounting environment required.
• Experience in auditing within the healthcare industry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Executes operational, financial, and compliance audits, investigations, and other projects in accordance with professional auditing standards.
• Performs audit procedures, including conducting and documenting interviews and analyzing evidence; defines issues and root causes.
• Completes assignments by deadlines and budgets; informs Director/Audit Manager of variances.
• Monitors work papers for completeness and compliance with IIA standards.
• Prepares work papers, reports, and correspondence that are accurate and timely.
• Prepares documents for meetings to inform auditees about objectives, scope, and results.
• Documents work performed to ensure results are supported.
• Builds and maintains productive client relationships through professionalism and responsive communication.

Skills

Audit procedures

Interviews & documentation

Risk assessment

Client interaction

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business

CPA Texas

CIA – IIA

Job description

Job Description

We are searching for a Staff Auditor -- someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will execute independent, objective assurance, and consulting activities designed to add value and improve the operations of the organization. This will be done using a systematic, risk based disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes while providing organizational leadership with transparency to key risks.

Job Description

We are searching for a Staff Auditor -- someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will execute independent, objective assurance, and consulting activities designed to add value and improve the operations of the organization. This will be done using a systematic, risk based disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes while providing organizational leadership with transparency to key risks.

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Responsibilities

• Executes operational, financial, and compliance audits, investigations, and other projects in accordance with professional auditing standards and departmental policies and procedures
• Performs audit procedures, including conducting and documenting interviews via process flows, narratives, etc., reviewing and analyzing evidence, identifying, and defining issues, identifying root cause of issues, developing criteria, documenting client processes and procedures, and composing summary memos
• Completes assignments such as audits, investigations, and other projects efficiently and effectively by the agreed-upon deadlines and within established budgets and informs Director/Audit Manager of potential variances in project completion dates
• Monitors and reviews work products to ensure that working papers are complete and compliant with department and IIA standards, work is reviewed by the preliminary and final reviewer, and reviewer’s notes have been resolved and cleared
• Prepares work papers, reports, and correspondence for assigned projects that are accurate, objective, clear, concise, constructive, complete, and timely
• Helps to prepare documents for meetings such as kick-off meetings, status meetings and exit conferences to discuss audit objectives, scope and methodologies as well as to inform the auditee about audit results and conclusions, opportunities for improvement, areas of risk, problems identified and proposed recommendations for change
• Documents work performed such as interviews, meetings, etc. in accordance with professional internal auditing standards and departmental policies and procedures to ensure that results and conclusions are adequately supported
• Builds and maintains productive client relationships through professionalism, interactive communications and constructive responses to client needs

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field required
• CPA certification from the state of Texas preferred
• CIA issued by The Institute of Internal Auditors preferred
• 2 years’ experience in an internal audit and/or accounting environment required
• Experience in auditing within the healthcare industry preferred

Position does require being onsite several days of the week; remaining days will be work from home; this is not a fully remote opportunity.

About Us

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children ’ s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children ’ s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; Texas Children ’ s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children ’ s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children ’ s Health Plan, the nation ’ s first HMO focused on children; Texas Children ’ s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country; Texas Children ’ s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children ’ s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.