Senior Financial Auditor

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Job Title: Senior Financial Auditor
Job Type: Direct-Hire
Job Location: Doral, FL (Hybrid)
We are assisting our client in finding a highly motivated and skilled Senior Internal Auditor to join our team and take on a pivotal role in ensuring operational excellence through comprehensive audit processes and continuous improvement initiatives. As a senior internal Auditor, you will be responsible for assisting with operational audits, evaluating internal processes, identifying areas for enhancement, and driving positive change throughout the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Operational/Managerial/Strategic Audits:

• Plan, coordinate, and execute operational audits across various departments and functions in accordance with established audit standards and best practices.
• Develop risk-based audit plans that address key operational risks and provide actionable insights to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance.
• Conduct thorough assessments of internal controls, processes, and procedures to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and potential areas of risk.
• Daily interaction with business management.
• Analyze data, issue audit reports, establish and update corporate policies and procedure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate existing processes, procedures, and workflows to identify opportunities for streamlining, optimizing, and enhancing overall operational performance.
• Utilize data analytics tools and techniques to extract meaningful insights from audit data, identify trends, anomalies, and potential areas of concern.
• Translate data-driven insights into actionable recommendations for operational enhancements and risk mitigation.
• Lead and analyze complex projects and processes to drive change and improvement to the department and across the enterprise.
• Coordinate and facilitate special projects, or special knowledge areas and across multiple disciplines with senior and executive level management.
• Reviewing audit work papers prepared by the staff member(s) assigned to ensure satisfactory completion and initialing to evidence the review.
• Prepare comprehensive audit documentation, including detailed findings, recommendations, and action plans to address identified issues.
• Communicate audit results and recommendations effectively to various stakeholders, including senior management and process owners.
• Lead change initiatives by partnering with relevant stakeholders, senior and executive management to implement recommended improvements and monitor the progress of action plans.
• Keeping the audit manager informed regarding the status of audits in progress and contacting the audit manager regarding targeted audit completion and scheduling of the formal audit review meeting.
• Assist in the project of compliance of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
• Review and evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls in a variety of business areas.
• Develop solutions to strengthen controls, improve profitability and aid management decision-making capability.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement by promoting the importance of operational excellence and collaborating with teams to embed best practices.
• Build strong relationships with business unit leaders, department heads, and other key stakeholders to understand their needs, challenges, and priorities.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• 3 to 4 years related audit experience and/or training in public accounting and/or private industry experience with knowledge of accounting, finance and internal control areas.
• CPA preferred.
• Understanding of internal control concepts and experience in applying them to plan, perform, manage and report on the evaluation of various business processes/areas/functions.
• Working knowledge of Oracle R12 desired.
• Ability to work independently, with limited required direction and guidance, and provide appropriate direction to other internal audit project team members.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, to effectively present to peers and management.
• Exhibit the leadership skills needed to sell ideas and obtain management buy-in for constructive change.
• Understanding of internal auditing standards, COSO and risk assessment practices.
• Understanding of the technical aspects of accounting and financial reporting.
• Proven experience in conducting operational audits and evaluating internal processes to drive improvements.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex data to derive actionable insights.
• Excellent project management skills with a focus on managing multiple audits and improvement initiatives simultaneously.
• Effective communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Industry experience strongly preferred.

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