Internal Auditor - Chicago, United States - Gilder Search Group

Description

Our client, a top-ranked Fortune 500 company looking to hire an Internal Auditor. Everyone knows this company's name globally in the retail space and they show no signs of slowing down

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 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
• Experience evaluating information to determine compliance with standards, laws, or regulations.
• Experience working with Sarbanes Oxley requirements.