• Manage the day-to-day conduct and completion of the audit and the audit report. Works independently under limited supervision, with considerable latitude for initiative and independent judgment.
• Conducting performance, financial, and compliance audit projects; providing consulting services to the organization’s management and staff; providing key input to development of the annual audit plan; and providing training and coaching to internal audit staff. Maintaining professional ethical standards with considerable latitude for initiative and independent judgment.
• Assigning audit guide sections or program steps to be performed by the staff member(s), along with providing or assisting in providing training, coaching, and guidance to internal audit junior staff in conducting audits and on other audit-related issues.
• Reviewing audit work papers prepared by the staff member(s) to ensure satisfactory completion and initialing to evidence the review, whilst preparing to-do lists, or counseling the junior staff member(s) as to additional testing, editing, further documentation judged necessary, or how unnecessary work can be eliminated in the future.
• Evaluating the efforts of the staff member(s), complimenting good work performed, and constructively criticizing work needing improvement and preparing personnel evaluation forms as required/requested.
• Reporting audit findings to senior management throughout the audit, along with presenting and communicating audit findings at the audit review meeting and drafting management responses in the audit report.
• Assembling the draft audit report, seeing that all point sheets have a disposition, and determining those findings to be included in the report or those to be handled as minor findings.
• Keeping the audit director informed regarding the status of audits in progress and contacting the audit director regarding targeted audit completion and scheduling of the formal audit review meeting.
• Pursuing professional development opportunities, including external and internal training and professional association memberships, and sharing information gained with co-workers and making recommendations on ways to improve the audit work process.