Senior Auditor
EDWARD JONES- Posted : 3 years ago
A typical branch office has one financial advisor who meets with clients face-to-face and one branch office administrator who enhances the team's ability to build deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis and Tempe provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. Edward Jones currently has more branch offices than any other financial services firm, and we continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.
Role is remote work eligible.
Developing leaders of tomorrow while helping reduce risks for a Fortune 500 company is what we do in Edward Jones Internal Audit. Would you like to work for an organization that values partnership in getting things accomplished? Do you want to learn what it takes to become a leader and gain a broad understanding of the firm at the same time? Internal Audit at Edward Jones is where tomorrow's leaders are developed to help to identify and reduce risks within the firm.
Yes, we have a process to evaluate risks but what sets us apart is not just auditing individual departments, we strive to ensure risks for our clients and 15,000 Financial Advisors are minimized.
Just as our business model supports a one financial advisor, one branch office administrator focus, our Audit department is one team, individually focused. We are all from diverse backgrounds (Public Accounting, Taxes, Advisory) with one goal in mind - to serve our clients and make an immediate impact to an organization and our community.
Noted multiple times as one of Fortune's Best Places to Work, Edward Jones is located in St. Louis, Missouri. The travel is minimal, which means more time with your friends and family. Edward Jones is also strongly focused on work life balance and making sure our associates are balanced, we are a partnership, we think that way too.
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for performing financial and operational audits and consulting projects timely throughout all divisions of the firm.
Audit work entails scoping the audit based on assessment of risk, gaining an understanding of processes (both automated and manual), identifying controls in place to mitigate risk and testing those controls to confirm they are functioning as designed.
Throughout the course of the audit, the senior auditor is responsible for providing status updates to all levels of leadership for the audit area and within Internal Audit, communicating observations timely and effectively assessing the risk/impact of observations. The senior auditor is also responsible for writing and presenting the final audit report.
The senior auditor typically works individually on audits, but can also lead staff auditors or newer senior auditors in performing this work.
The senior auditor is responsible for the execution and effective management of the audit work. When leading another auditor, the senior auditor is responsible for delegating the work, providing guidance / coaching to the other auditor, reviewing the other auditors work papers and providing feedback.
Collaboration with Leaders and Senior Leaders throughout the firm to establish relationships.
Continually strive to develop your skill set with cooperation from Internal Audit leadership.
Position Qualifications:
Undergraduate business degree is required, with an emphasis in accounting or finance preferred.
Graduate degree preferred
CPA/CIA or commitment to obtaining is strongly preferred.
A minimum of 3 years of Public Accounting and/or Internal Audit experience is required. The auditor should have measurable experience serving in a senior auditor role. Financial services industry or banking experience is a plus.
Demonstrable understanding of audit terminology, practices and documentation standards is required.
Experience evaluating risk to scope audit work, identifying controls and developing effective tests for those controls, and analyzing control design and effectiveness and evaluating findings required.
Understanding of GAAP, experience utilizing IDEA, ACL or other similar tools to perform audit work, flowcharting and writing and presenting audit reports preferred.
- FORTUNE 2020 Edward Jones was named No. 7 on the 2020 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list.
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- Edward Jones Ranked No. 6 of the 100 best workplaces for millennials by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE Magazine.
- 2020 Corporate Equality Index Edward Jones joins the ranks of 680 major U.S businesses that received top marks in the HRC Foundations 18th Annual Scorecard on LBGTQ Workplace Equality
- Edward Jones named a top company for training, ranking No. 25 on Training magazine's 2020 Training Top 125 list the highest ranking among the financial-services industry!
- Financial services firm Edward Jones has been named one of the 2019 Best Workplaces for Parents by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE magazine. The firm ranked No. 5 on the list of 50 companies, up two spots from last year.
- The Best Workplaces for Parents list is one of a series of rankings by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE based on employee feedback from Great Place to Work-Certified organizations. Edward Jones ranked No. 7 on the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work for in 2019 list, the firms 20th appearance on the list. The firm also was ranked the No. 1 Best Workplace in Financial Services & Insurance and the No. 6 Best Workplace for Millennials by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE.
Skills
- accounting
