Senior Internal Auditor (m/w/d)

Job Description

The Avangrid Senior Internal Auditor is a self-motivated, adaptive, quick learner who can manage and prioritize an evolving workload in a fast-paced environment. This person will be an individual contributor who must be able to develop relationships throughout the company to facilitate the audit programs that he/she will execute and accomplish the mission set forth by the Audit & Compliance Committee of the Board of Directors. Excellent communication skills are a must in this position. The Senior Internal Auditor is responsible for performing audits from the annual Internal Audit Plan, which includes operational, financial, regulatory, and compliance audits. This role reports to a Director or Manager of Avangrid Internal Audit.

Employee has access to Avangrid’s company records, properties, and personnel; freedom to appraise policies, plans, procedures and records relevant to the subjects under audit; makes recommendations to strengthen controls, improve operating effectiveness, and increase efficiency.

Major Roles and Responsibilities

• Performs audits, using data analytics where applicable, to verify accuracy and ensure compliance with plans, policies, and procedures proscribed by management, develops the audit scope, evaluates risks, develops an effective audit program, and conducts interviews with personnel, performs the audit testing.
• Adequately explains and documents all audit testing, findings, and recommendations. Uses analogies, visuals etc. to effectively communicate complex ideas. Drives conversations and communicates in a clear and concise way.
• Demonstrates the ability to remain agile and understands their role in helping implement change within the organization. Takes responsibility for personal behavior and actions. Maintains a positive attitude towards change. Brainstorms solutions when faced with change.
• Delivers clear and sufficient evidence to support observations, testing, conclusions, and recommendations. Reviews workpapers and provides effective coaching to team members (when applicable) regarding such areas as pertinent information, logical order, and legibility and neatness of workpapers.
• Understands the reasons for change and the potential impacts, as well as acts upon solutions to address issues experienced during change. Engages with team members and provides support during times of change. Helps maintain a positive tone towards change across the organization.
• Prepares the audit report summarizing the audit findings, exceptions, and recommendations for oral and written audit reports to management. Summarizes audit findings and preliminary recommendations, with appropriate indication of risk, for review by the Director/Manager of Internal Audit for clarification of facts. Demonstrates awareness that there is always room for improvement by identifying and communicating opportunities for improving based on experiences, and tangible recommendations and solutions.
• Encourages productivity and efficiency by having a strong focus on getting results and proactively identifying and implementing effective solutions while ensuring quality is a priority.
• Performs testing to evaluate design and operational effectiveness of SOX internal controls.
• Evaluates the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls and identifies control weaknesses, participates in developing the recommendations for cost-effective solutions in an effort to ensure that Avangrid’s assets are safeguarded, accounting records are accurate and in accordance with GAAP, Company policies, procedures, and legal and regulatory obligations are adhered to.
• Provides assistance to external auditors, when applicable, related to SOX internal control testing reliance.
• Conducts follow-up reviews on audit finding recommendations and management actions. Participates in ongoing reviews that track and appraise the implementation of the audit recommendations.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the principles of the identification, assessment and management of risk and uses this knowledge to assist in risk assessment exercises, including the identification of risk and assessment of the control design relative to risks.
• Identifies and uses appropriate methods to gain an understanding of the area or topic under review, its operations, and its processes, including any regulatory, compliance, or legal impacts. Leverages research to drive effective audit design, build complex test approaches, and build credibility with business areas by demonstrating sufficient knowledge of relevant subject matter.
• Demonstrates basic awareness about judgmental or statistical sampling techniques. Can analyze data trends, correlation, deviation, gaps, age, median, average etc.
• Demonstrates the ability to participate in several projects at once, while managing their individual workload and successfully delivering assignments to the expected quality within the agreed timeframes.
• Evaluates and communicates any known or potential weakness in company financial and accounting policies, systems, tools, processes, and controls uncovered during audits.
• Gathers and reports data for measurements of audit benchmarking capabilities and improvement effort priorities.
• Periodically works with a diverse global team on specific multi-national audits.

Skills/Abilities

• Ability to plan, organize, and communicate effectively

• Ability to collect and analyze data

• Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills and sound independent judgment

• Demonstrated effectiveness in collaboration and working with others

• Experience as an auditor in a public accounting or industrial firm is preferred. Knowledge of audit standards, procedures, techniques, and internal controls. Proficient in accounting and management principles

• Knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) internal controls testing and documentation requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 3+ more years of experience in an auditing, accounting or related field is preferred
• Knowledge of engineering and relevant utility experience preferred
• Experience with auditing public company SOX internal controls is preferred
• Experience with Data Analytics tools is preferred

Certifications

• CPA, CIA and/or CFE certification is strongly desired but not required

Benefits

• Award winning student loan debt repayment program
• 12% 401(k) Match
• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• Comprehensive benefits - including medical, dental, vision and variety of well-being programs
• Tuition Assistance
• Opportunities for professional development, career advancement, and internal mobility
• Supportive and inclusive work environment
• Generous PTO policy

At Avangrid we provide fair and equal employment and advancement opportunities for all employees and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.