As a key member of the audit team, the Internal Audit Associate assists with Financial, Operational, IT audits or investigations. Reviews and tests the design and effectiveness of internal controls for a specific portion of the audit. Identifies the need for recommendations and improvements in internal control.

Responsibilities:

• Assists with a variety of audits in accordance with audit programs through the application of established policies and procedures.
• Attends kickoff and closing meetings. May assist in preparing the agenda for these meetings.
• Utilizes audit techniques to document and determine the effectiveness of internal controls (i.e. interviews, observation, flow charting, compliance and substantive testing). Able to independently identify risks in a given process.
• May participate in investigations being performed by the Internal Audit function.
• Based on changes or new information arising in the audit process, adjusts to changes made to audit programs to address these changes.
• Identifies audit concerns, and effectively communications, as identified, to audit team.
• Prepares draft audit findings including recommendations resulting from audit for formal report to immediate supervisor. Assists in preparing reports for reviews.
• Adheres to detailed project timelines.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in financial, accounting, business management, computer science, quantitative analysis or other business fields of study .OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 3 years of experience in financial/operational auditing or information technology auditing.
• Experience working with internal control concepts (risk and control).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• willing to travel up to 15% of the time for business purposes

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in finance, accounting, business management, computer science, quantitative analysis, or other business fields.
• Master’s degree or MBA.
• Internship experience in an analytical role.
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Information System’s Auditor (CISA).
• Experience in the Retail, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare or Distribution industry.
• Experience working with statistical sampling procedures.
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Access (for example: opening a table in datasheet view, entering data, filtering data, creating a form, modifying a form layout, applying themes, running, sorting and saving queries, creating and formatting a report, changing report test, adding an image, printing labels, navigating through records, and/or exporting to Excel).
• Experience evaluating information to determine compliance with standards, laws, or regulations.
• Experience working with Sarbanes Oxley requirements.