Description & Requirements
Ready to Accelerate Your Career? Join our rapidly expanding advisory team!
Our Financial Services Internal Audit Advisory practice brings our global footprint, clients, industry expertise, and innovative solutions together to help global companies exceed their strategic objectives and needs. We have a national and global footprint with a significant portfolio of financial services clients spanning across banking, insurance, global markets, asset and wealth management, and payments. Our clients range from the largest, premier global banks, insurers, and financial institutions to super-regional and community banking clients, asset managers, and Fintech start-ups. This role specifically focuses on leaders interested in working closely with the largest banks globally across the third line of defense.
Who Makes A Highly Successful Advisor?
We are looking for team members to join our global, inclusive community of passionate financial services advisors. These diverse professionals should be highly skilled, entrepreneurial, and future focused – they are self-starters with curiosity and a passion for continuous learning. They possess a strong growth mindset that propels themselves and others forward, driving innovation through delivery, and helping clients succeed beyond their expectations.
Your New Career Challenge
Daily, you will have the opportunity to learn and work alongside a broad mix of highly talented subject matter leaders and team members both at Forvis Mazars and at our clients within Internal Audit. You will have an environment to explore and experience emerging, and relevant topics based on your interests and alignment to your short and long-term career goals.
As part of our growing Internal Audit Advisory team, you will work with our clients, including some of the most iconic banks globally, in Internal Audit. You will be leading teams and supporting the client across critical audits in emerging areas of risk, banking operations, and issues management and validation.
How you will contribute:
- Assisting in the planning and scoping of assigned projects
- Interviewing client personnel to understand and document business processes, risks, and controls in narratives and flowcharts
- Testing for compliance with policies, regulations, and contract provisions and providing recommendations to minimize deficiencies
- Performing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance engagements including documentation, testing, evaluation, and reporting
- Identifying and evaluating control deficiencies for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance engagements
- Coordinating and reviewing remediation efforts with client management
- Assisting in the development and creation of test plans and performing walk-throughs
- Preparing work papers including proper documentation of work performed, findings, and exceptions
- Supporting management in special projects as required
- Preparing reports based upon audit results, audit documentation, and client responses
- Conducting business process reviews to evaluate the design and operational effectiveness of internal controls and assess the efficiency of operations
- Participating in client meetings and executive presentations
- Highly skilled, entrepreneurial, and future focused
- Self-starters with curiosity and a passion for continuous learning
- A strong growth mindset that propels themselves and others forward
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field required
- 2 years of relevant work experience
- Proficiency in MS Office: Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook