Financial Services Internal Audit Senior Consultant

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Financial Services Internal Audit Senior Consultant

As a Financial Services Internal Audit Senior Consultant, you will assist our clients with transforming their governance, embedding risk in their decision-making, and maintaining efficient compliance. We will enable an entrepreneurial and innovative environment for you to deliver transformative consulting services and to develop deeply specialized skill sets demanded in today's market.

You will be responsible for:

• Providing risk management and operational internal audit services to clients primarily in the banking and financial services industry.
• Assisting in planning and managing staff on engagements, including reviewing staff workpapers and providing feedback and guidance to staff.
• Conducting fieldwork, preparing workpapers to support conclusions, discussing findings and observations with management, and preparing written reports of various types and formats.
• Advising clients on how to improve and optimize internal controls, best practices, and helping clients deal with routine issues within the scope of the engagement.
• Providing other value-added recommendations both to our clients and to help improve the firm.
• Communicating audit scope, engagement status, issues, emerging risks, and recommendations through written reports and presentations to appropriate audiences.
• Maintaining consistency and quality in Internal Audit work across the organization, providing guidance and feedback to staff.
• Meeting quality guidelines within the established turnaround time or budget for assigned tasks, ensuring high standards of work.
• Applying solution-based approaches to problem-solving during client engagements, documenting working papers to support conclusions.
• Developing positive relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate open communication regarding pending due dates and questions.
• Balancing competing priorities and managing time effectively to maintain the audit deliverable schedules.

Educational and professional credentials:

• Bachelor's Degree is required; major in Accountancy, Finance or Information Technology is preferred.
• Professional Certification or working toward CPA, or CIA is strongly preferred.

Preferred knowledge and skills:

• 3-5 years of experience in the areas of operational internal audit, internal controls assessment, and/or SOX 404 evaluation and testing.
• Prior experience should include progressive responsibilities, including supervising and reviewing the work of others, and project management, including self-management of simultaneous work-streams and responsibilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication and comprehension both formally and informally to our clients and our teams, in a variety of formats and settings, including in interviews, meetings, calls, e-mails, reports, process narratives, presentations, etc.
• Internal operational and technology audit planning and execution, including risk assessment experience.
• Internal control design and effectiveness understanding.
• Business process flow and flowcharting.
• Strong understanding of PCAOB requirements and industry best practices.
• GAAP financial accounting and SEC Reporting.
• Willingness to travel 60% annually.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Crowe, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $74,100.00 - $147,800.00 per year.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Crowe, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $74,100.00 - $147,800.00 per year.

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe's values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.