Internal Auditor

A fast-growing medical device company, located in the Glendale/Los Angeles area seeks an Internal Auditor to join their dynamic team. You will have the opportunity to partner with a dynamic business operations team, contributing your financial insights to enhance internal control processes and improve daily operations.  This role is starting out on a Temporary basis, and has the potential to be hired on, with a pay rate of $40 to $50 an hour DOE.

The Auditor position will be responsible for conducting operational, financial, and regulatory internal audits (no SOX testing). The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. 

Responsibilities include:

• Identify operational, compliance, financial, and reputational risks through risk assessment, audit and consulting activity;
• The ability to execute the planning, fieldwork and reporting stages of the internal audits;
• Leading interviews to understand current state systems, processes, and controls and assessing risk with minimal oversight and supervision;
• Performing walk-throughs of control processes and substantive testing, as necessary;
• Designing audit procedures for high-risk and complex audit areas;
• Designing and performing data analytic procedures to identify emerging risks and patterns;
• Identifying, developing and documenting audit findings and discussing the findings with the stakeholders;
• Drafting audit reports and communicating audit results via verbal and written presentations to management;
• Performing due date tracking, management follow-up, and validation testing for the remediation of audit findings;
• Drafting internal audit meeting materials;
• Performing validation testing for the remediation of audit findings;
• Helping to advise stakeholders on the strengths and weaknesses of controls;

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of internal audit experience;
• Some public audit would be a plus (i.e., internship experience works);
• Experience applying internal auditing standards, management principles and business practices;
• Experience collecting and analyzing complex data, evaluating information and drawing logical conclusions;
• Experience using data analytics to identify patterns and trends using data;
• Have a basic understanding of Accounting principles.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite applications, with a specific emphasis on Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint to prepare work papers, reports, memos and summaries.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline (Accounting, Finance, or Business-related field). A CPA or CIA is preferred.