The posting
Job Description
In an ever-changing world, it requires creativity and innovation to stay ahead.
We're seeking curious, collaborative professionals who share our commitment to solving complex challenges and creating lasting value.
Join a connected global team of talented people who bring diverse perspectives and work together to make a positive impact.
Who are we looking for?
GHD is seeking a Senior Internal Auditor to join our Global Internal Audit team.
This role is to be based in any of our offices the Mountain(MST) or Pacific Time Zone (PST) in either US or Canada.
In this role, you will lead assigned process and operational audit engagements from planning and scoping through fieldwork, reporting, and close-out. You will work with stakeholders across functions and geographies to evaluate business processes, risks, and controls, using both traditional audit techniques and modern data analytics.
This opportunity is well suited to a proactive, data-literate auditor who can work with a high degree of independence, navigate complex information, and translate analysis into clear, practical, and evidence-based insights.
Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:
- Lead assigned internal audit engagements, managing planning, fieldwork, stakeholder engagement, timelines, deliverables, reporting, and file close-out.
- Conduct pre-audit research and risk assessments and develop audit scopes, work programs, information requests, meeting agendas, and delivery plans.
- Facilitate process walkthroughs with process owners and management to understand business processes, systems, data flows, risks, and key controls.
- Assess the design and operating effectiveness of controls through sample-based testing, data analytics, and full-population analysis, where appropriate.
- Apply critical thinking, professional judgment, and professional skepticism to evaluate evidence, challenge assumptions, identify emerging risks, and determine root causes.
- Use data analytics to identify trends, anomalies, and higher-risk transactions and to generate insights beyond traditional sample-based testing.
- Use tools such as Microsoft Excel, Power Query, Power BI, SQL, and Microsoft Fabric to extract, transform, reconcile, analyze, and visualize data.
- Evaluate the completeness, accuracy, and reliability of data used for audit testing and clearly document analytical procedures, assumptions, and conclusions.
- Assess technology-enabled business processes, including the interaction between enterprise systems, data flows, automated controls, and manual controls.
- Prepare clear, complete, and reviewable audit workpapers in accordance with the Internal Audit team’s methodology and templates.
- Develop concise and balanced audit observations and reports that describe the issue, root cause, risk, potential consequence, and practical recommendations.
- Work constructively with management to validate findings and support the development of appropriate action plans, accountable owners, and target completion dates.
- Present audit results to management and other key stakeholders and respond objectively to questions, challenges, and additional evidence.
- Follow up on management actions and assess whether the agreed actions and underlying risks have been appropriately addressed.
- Support quarterly Internal Audit reporting for senior leadership and the Board Audit Committee.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of Internal Audit methodologies, templates, analytics capabilities, and ways of working, including the responsible use of AI-enabled tools.
- Support special projects, including confidential integrity- and fraud-related investigations, as required.
What you will bring to the team:
- Demonstrated experience delivering process and/or operational audits from planning and scoping through fieldwork, reporting, and close-out.
- Strong understanding of internal audit methodologies, internal controls, risk management, and evidence-based assurance practices.
- Strong critical-thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work through complex or ambiguous information and develop well-supported conclusions.
- Ability to identify patterns and root causes, challenge assumptions, and distinguish isolated exceptions from broader process or control weaknesses.
- Strong stakeholder-management skills and the ability to challenge constructively while maintaining effective working relationships.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex issues clearly and concisely to management and executive audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to plan, prioritize, and manage multiple activities, dependencies, and deadlines with limited supervision.
- Strong data literacy and experience applying data analytics within audit, risk, assurance, or business analysis activities.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and Power Query skills.
- Working knowledge of SQL, including the ability to query, filter, join, and analyze structured datasets.
- Experience using Power BI to analyze data, visualize results, and communicate meaningful insights.
- Ability to understand technology-enabled processes and the relationship between systems, data, automated controls, and manual controls.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.
- At least three years of relevant experience in internal audit, risk, assurance, professional services, or a related discipline.
- A completed or in-progress CA, CPA, CIA, CISA, CFE, CRMP, or other relevant professional designation will be highly regarded.
- Ability to accommodate a moderate level of domestic and international travel.
The following experience will also be highly regarded:
- Experience using Microsoft Fabric or comparable enterprise data platforms.
- Experience with data modeling and combining large datasets from multiple enterprise systems.
- Experience analyzing data from ERP, payroll, financial, project-management, or similar enterprise platforms.
- Experience applying analytics to full data populations to supplement or replace traditional sample-based testing.
- Experience with AI-enabled analytical or productivity tools, including responsible use, confidentiality, and validation of AI-assisted outputs.
- Experience assessing automated controls, ERP systems, and technology-dependent business processes.
- Forensic accounting or confidential investigations experience.
- Experience in a professional services, multidisciplinary consulting, or Big Four environment.
What success looks like
- Take ownership of assigned engagements and anticipate next steps, dependencies, and potential delivery constraints.
- Look beyond individual exceptions to identify root causes and broader risk and control implications.
- Produce concise, balanced, executive-ready workpapers, observations, and reports supported by appropriate evidence.
- Use data and technology effectively to improve audit coverage, targeting, and insight.
- Build trusted stakeholder relationships while maintaining independence, objectivity, and professional skepticism.
- Deliver complete, accurate, and reviewable audit files in accordance with established methodology.
- Demonstrate sound judgment, discretion, confidentiality, and integrity, particularly when handling sensitive information.
Take on some of the world’s toughest challenges, with everyone at GHD backing you every step of the way.
At GHD, we are committed to creating opportunity for all. We value the diverse experiences, perspectives, and contributions our people bring and encourage qualified candidates to apply.
As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status or veteran status.
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