Position Summary:
Develop audit programs and lead audits to identify risks and evaluate the effectiveness of operational, financial, compliance, and/or technology controls. Deliver the execution of objectives on audit engagements, performing reviews, and delivering feedback as needed and perform advisory services, SOX work, and/or continuous auditing in addition to risk-based audit work.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with multiple Teams within the Internal Audit Department and larger organization to provide thought leadership and Southwest specific insight to verify risks are mitigated appropriately
- Use data management techniques such as data queries, data editing, and data cleansing, to produce a valid and comprehensive data set to be analyzed
- Apply statistical models in audit procedures for items within a class of transactions to highlight audit weakness in the entire class of transactions, allowing Internal Audit to make confident conclusions about the larger population of transactions
- Provide coaching and guidance on the use of frameworks and methodologies to peers and staff
- Supervise, participate in, and ensure the quality of risk assessments, evaluation of controls, development of audit plans, testing strategies, audit findings and conclusions
- Lead the Internal Audit Days in the Field program, coordinating the experience including the materials, presentation, and follow-up questions.
- Lead the Internal Audit Intern program, recruiting efforts, onboarding, development of goals, and educational efforts on behalf of the Internal Audit Department
- Deliver plans, schedules, and timelines, and monitor reports/dashboards to Internal Audit Leadership in support of managing work efforts in the Department
- Provide data driven support for deficiencies identified and leverage strong business acumen to influence recommendations that introduce efficiencies or productivity
- May perform other job duties as directed by Employee’s Leaders
- Maintain practical knowledge of current/emerging technologies and risks, audit trends and best practices, and data analysis techniques
- Focus on the most significant risks in the audit universe, while performing ongoing risk assessment to determine scope of assigned audits and other special projects
Required Education & Experience:
- Required: High School Diploma or GED
- Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources
- Expert-level experience, expansive and far reaching knowledge in accounting, internal audit, data analytics, technology, and/or related business experience
- Ability to use a computer and other office productivity tools with sufficient speed and accuracy to meet the demands of the job
- Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events)
- Understand and apply information to contribute to the organization’s strategic plan
- Understand the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making
- Ability to communicate and interact with others in the English language to meet the demands of the job
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986
- Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines
- Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
- Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one
- Ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong, which does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem
- Understands and is able to communicate internal controls related to financial, operational, technology, and/or compliance risk
- Ability to perform work duties from limited space work station/desk/office area for extended periods of time
- Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Management Information Systems and/or a related business field