Staff Auditor

With more than 225 branch offices across North America, Associa is building the future of community for nearly five million residents worldwide. Our 11,000+ team members lead the industry with unrivaled education, expertise, and trailblazing innovation. For more than 43 years, Associa has brought positive impact and meaningful value to communities. To learn more, visit www.associaonline.com.

Job Description

Internal Audit’s mission is to provide independent assessment, objective assurance and consulting services designed to add value and improve the organization’s operations. This is accomplished by internal audits, consulting, data analytics, process workflows and special projects. A Staff Internal Auditor will participate in objective reviews of business processes, evaluate the efficiency of management’s ability to manage risk, ensure that company is complying with internal policy, relevant laws and statutes and make recommendations to improve the control environment and governance processes.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyze data to identify risks, process breakdowns and trends that reduce quality and accuracy. Gather and review evidence to assess internal controls and electronically document audit work papers with Microsoft tools and pdf annotation
• Participate in audit planning, understand business processes, identify risks, execute control testing, write control effectiveness conclusions, document and communicate recommendations, draft reports and follow-up on outstanding remediation for both corporate and client control environments
• Develop and maintain working relationships with internal and external business partners while offering unsurpassed customer service
• Effectively communicate with all levels of responsibility in departments and entities of Associa. Convey written and verbal information and obtain information in a clear and concise way that allows objectives to be understood and completed timely
• Act as a risk and control subject matter expert and provide support to operations as necessary. Offer insight and advice and promote ethical behavior throughout the company
• Participate in continuous improvement for the internal audit function. Identify opportunities to further automate information and data gathering, use data analysis to focus testing on known outliers, improve audit cycle time and reporting
• Demonstrate project management abilities by individual time management, deliverable understanding and tracking, proactively identify risks and barriers, effective communication and delivery of quality results on time
• Some travel, both Domestic and International

Requirements

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Knowledge of accounting principles, practices, and procedures (US GAAP)
• Understanding of COSO framework, entity level controls, risk and control matrices and standard business processes
• Data analytic skills; advanced Excel user, ability to retrieve data, summarize, classify, identify trends and outliers, interpret, present, and report. Experience with ACL and Power BI is a plus.
• Self-motivated, detail oriented, and inquisitive with a high level of initiative. Ability to manage time, negotiate, meet deadlines and remain flexible
• Demonstrate integrity, accountability, innovation and the desire to constantly improve
• Ability to improve business acumen, further communication skills, increase critical thinking and decision making abilities and promote partnerships and teamwork

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
• 1 to 3 years of public accounting and/or industry experience with solid accounting or internal control knowledge
• Professional certification (CPA, CIA or CFE) or working towards certification with commitment to complete certification within 1 year of hire

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.