Internal Auditor

Job Title: Internal Auditor
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid - Monday/Tuesday onsite required; Subject to change)
Duration: 9+ Months (Extension possible)
Pay Range: $38/hr. - $42/hr.

Description:
Job Description:
Staff is responsible for assisting with planning and conducting audit fieldwork and special projects, traveling domestically and internationally as necessary. Staff will perform internal control testing, detailed analysis of business data, and Product an understanding of business models and strategic goals to identify opportunities to streamline and improve business operations, Product company assets, enhance revenue, reduce costs, and promote best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in individual audit planning, including leading/documenting walkthroughs and assisting in developing project-level risk assessments.
• Actively participate in meetings and documents the discussions.
• Performs audit fieldwork activities under the direction of the audit manager and director, including reporting and audit wrap-up.
• Prepares workpapers in support of work performed and drafts findings (based on testing results) for audit reports.
• Communicates audit findings to internal audit manager and senior business process owners.
• Assists in special project assignments as needed.
• This individual must be an action-oriented professional who needs minimal supervision to conduct risk-based operational audits.
• This individual is a team player primarily responsible for carrying out specific audit assignments and special projects as needed.
• Responsibilities include performing data analysis on assigned areas, participating in assessing project-level audit risk, conducting detailed audit testing, and documenting audit issues and recommendations to improve weak or lacking internal controls.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 2-3 years experience at a big four CPA firm and/or large public company internal audit department (preferably in the media & entertainment industry) or a consulting firm with business process evaluation experience.
• BS or MS in Accounting from a competitive university is required. A CPA or CIA is preferred.
• Extensive experience with analyzing unstructured and large data sets and the ability to develop an approach and methodology for deriving insights
• Strong administrative skills, including the ability to handle multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Individual must possess strong organizational and analytical skills, knowledge, and aptitude, as well as a positive attitude.
• Ability to properly execute the fundamentals of auditing
• Ability to understand the company's operational policies and procedures
• Strong administrative skills, including the ability to handle multiple assignments simultaneously
• Ability to see a project through to completion and take job ownership
• This individual must be adaptable, persuasive, and perceptive with exceptional communication skills.
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and analytics tools such as Excel, ACL, Tableau etc. Python or coding is preferred but not required.
• Willingness to travel if needed.

What are the main 3-5 responsibilities of this resource?
Internal audit experience to help with reports and testing. Establish relationships with process owners and team, form planning decisions, field work will involve testing/documentation and derive results and findings to be issued in a final audit report. CPA background with big four experience. Should have experience working with large data sets, prefer some python encoding experience (such as be able to run codes, run data tests such as duplicate matches). This is a collaborative environment, will work with testing individually but will also present findings as a team, and not necessarily rely on managers to share the results. Should be proactive and take initiative, and be able to work as a team, should want to establish relationships and network to become a liaison between departments and the audit team. We would like them to have strong analytical skills. Potential domestic travel, up to 20%.

Nice to Have:
A CPA or CIA is preferred.

Deal Breakers:
Should have history in finance in their work history, prefer audit related background