Sr. Auditor

Key responsibilities include independently designing and executing audit tests, assessing issues for business impact and recommending severity ratings, and establishing business partner relationships. Job expectations include evaluating the control environment, fostering an inclusive work environment, applying product, business, and technical expertise, and supporting team members with development.

Responsibilities:

1. Executes audit strategy for the sound application of risk-based auditing by defining audit scope and audit programs, and leverages automation and innovative methods in a timely and high quality manner.
2. Exercises sound knowledge of product, business, and technical expertise to effectively challenge management to improve the control environment.
3. Assesses impacts to business processes, controls, and strategies to provide recommendations on severity ratings.
4. Provides input on draft audit reports and shares audit results with business leaders.
5. Supports the development of peers and teams through on-the-job training and fosters an inclusive work environment.
6. Establishes business partner relationships, primarily with line management, to develop business knowledge.
7. Uses innovative tools to complete audit activities more efficiently (e.g., testing).

Skills:

1. Self-starter, desire to learn, able to teach others, positive attitude, exhibits flexibility.
2. Strong critical thinking, problem solving, analytical mindset required.
3. Must be able to plan, execute, and evaluate audit test plans within a risk-based audit methodology.
4. Ability to think critically and apply audit and data expertise.
5. Ability to work independently.
6. Sound organizational, analytical, oral, and written communication skills.
7. Demonstrate the ability to juggle multiple work efforts and to quickly change direction.
8. Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with multiple concurrent priorities.
9. Strong written and verbal communications at all levels of management – must be able to make recommendations and articulate conclusions supported by data.

Required Qualifications:

Desired Qualifications:

1. Knowledge of Bank of America business processes and front-end application systems.
2. Audit or risk control risk/controls background in financial services.