Senior Auditor, Internal Audit

Location: Hyderabad Block A

Why Ryan?

Global Award-Winning Culture

Flexible Work Environment

Generous Paid Time Off

World-Class Benefits and Compensation

Rapid Growth Opportunities

Company Sponsored Two-Way Transportation

Exponential Career Growth

The Senior Auditor is responsible for helping execute the Company’s internal audit plan, which includes financial, operational, compliance, and information technology audits and consulting activities. The Senior is also a key stakeholder of the Company’s Sarbanes-Oxley program. The Senior Auditor will be responsible for reviewing work of the internal audit staff as well as 3rd party service providers to ensure quality control and compliance with the Institute of Internal Auditors Standards and company-approved policies and procedures. Additionally, the Senior Auditor works extensively with multiple internal functions and the independent auditor.

Duties and responsibilities, as they align to Ryan’s Key Results

People

Create a positive team member experience.

Supervise, mentor, and develop staff auditors.

Client

• Actively support department management in building the internal audit department from the ground up.
• Assist in the development of complex audit procedures, review staff-level audit work papers, and communicate audit results to process owners, control owners, and management.
• Ensure high quality deliverables, value added recommendations and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor your own and project team’s work load, prioritize activities, and achieve deadlines.
• Build strong working relationships throughout the company and within the internal audit team, including managing relationships with various levels of management, setting expectations and meeting/exceeding expectations.
• Regularly educate direct management on governance, risks, controls, and changes in the audit requirements.

Value

• Execute duties as a high energy, performance-oriented and empowered team member.
• Execute against department policies and procedures, suggest improvements to department operations.
• Key contributor in developing and maintaining the Company’s Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) program.
• Develop Internal Audit/SOX project-level strategies, risk assessments, and project plans.
• Lead multiple and complex audits/projects simultaneously, including scope, resources, results, and reporting to management.
• Analytically review critical business processes, evaluating design and operational effectiveness of internal controls and identifying potential process improvement opportunities.
• Assess various risks and exposures of key business processes in the preparation of audit plans and programs.
• Create process maps of significant and complex financial, compliance and operational processes to identify potential internal control weaknesses and recommend opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare high-quality draft audit reports and present conclusions/recommendations to management.
• Oversee issue remediation follow-up to ensure issues are communicated to management and realistic action plans are in place to resolve the root cause of the issue.
• Partner extensively with the independent auditors to ensure risk/control coverage, issue remediation, and delivery of IA work to reduce effort for process and control owners
• Stay current with business/industry changes and new accounting and auditing pronouncements and apply that knowledge within processes and control environment.
• Provides innovative solutions, business insight and guidance to improve processes, controls and/or reduce cost.
• Other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related field.
• Minimum three years of overall related experience; at least two years with a Big 4 accounting firm preferred.
• Minimum two years of experience reviewing the work product of others.
• Significant exposure to large, public company environments preferred.
• Active Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license or candidate (parts passed) preferred; CIA or CISA certification a plus.
• Hands on, deep knowledge of, and experience with, internal controls and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements, including the 2013 COSO Internal Control Integrated Framework.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both oral and written.
• Trusted advisor and confidant with a high level of professionalism.
• Strong initiative and independent judgment.
• Flexible in a growing and evolving environment.
• Ability to work effectively across functional areas and with different levels of management.
• Passion for identifying and assessing risks, building relationships and making recommendations for process improvements.
• Proven capabilities in collaboration and producing results.
• Prior direct experience in an IPO environment a plus.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 15%

Computer Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have Workday or similar ERP system experience, and intermediate-to-advanced skills using Microsoft® Office. Experience using audit software, such as ACL, IDEA, or TeamMate Analytics, a plus.

Certificates and Licenses

Active Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license or candidate (parts passed) preferred; CIA or CISA certification a plus.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Review staff employee work papers, as well as 3rd party service providers.

Work Environment

• Standard indoor working environment.
• Occasional long periods of sitting while working at computer.
• Occasional long periods of standing while copying.
• Position requires regular interaction with employees both in person and via e-mail and telephone.
• Domestic and international travel up to 15%.
• Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran