Internal Auditor, Principal

Your Role

The Internal Audit Services team performs internal audits and advisory services to provide assurance on specific internal control objectives and emerging risk areas. The Internal Audit Principal will report to the Internal Audit Senior Director. In this role, you will be leading and managing financial, operational, and integrated audits and advisory engagements.

You will also be assessing the design and effectiveness of internal controls for business processes, financial reporting and measurement activities, and related applications in accordance with laws, regulations, policies, standards, and procedures using established tools and techniques.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor''s degree or equivalent experience
• Requires a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience
• Ability to communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization
• Extensive understanding of internal controls and the ability to leverage this knowledge to make effective audit and advisory recommendations
• Internal audit and risk assessment practices and methodologies
• IT general and automated technical controls concepts, application controls and end-user computing controls
• AI and data analysis techniques preferred
• Healthcare and pharmacy audit experience preferred
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and/or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) preferred

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

Your Work

In this role, you will

• Execute the annual audit plan by independently performing audit procedures, including identifying and defining issues, developing criteria, reviewing, and analyzing evidence, and documenting management processes and procedures. Audits entail end to end process reviews, can be cross functional and complex.
• Provide expertise in internal controls including project management, business process analysis, financial control disciplines, and information technology
• Implement strategic goals established by Internal Audit Services leadership
• Support Internal Audit management is the annual risk assessment process to develop the annual audit plan
• Identify, develop, and document audit issues and recommendations using independent judgment concerning areas being reviewed
• Prepares and delivers reports and presentations to various levels of management
• Performs post-audit follow-up reviews to ensure management corrective action plans have been effectively implemented
• Provides measurable input into new products, processes, standards, and/or operational plans that impact Internal Audit Services, and proactively improves upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation
• Conducts extensive investigation and critical thinking to understand root causes of problems that span a wide range of difficult and unique issues across functions and/or businesses
• Manages large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams. May direct the work of other individual contributors and/or act as a cross-functional team lead
• Leverages data analytics and technical expertise to analyze complex datasets, identify risk patterns and anomalies, and drive data-driven audit insights; actively utilizes and champions emerging technologies, including AI, to enhance audit efficiency, coverage, and quality

Your Work

In this role, you will

• Execute the annual audit plan by independently performing audit procedures, including identifying and defining issues, developing criteria, reviewing, and analyzing evidence, and documenting management processes and procedures. Audits entail end to end process reviews, can be cross functional and complex.
• Provide expertise in internal controls including project management, business process analysis, financial control disciplines, and information technology
• Implement strategic goals established by Internal Audit Services leadership
• Support Internal Audit management is the annual risk assessment process to develop the annual audit plan
• Identify, develop, and document audit issues and recommendations using independent judgment concerning areas being reviewed
• Prepares and delivers reports and presentations to various levels of management
• Performs post-audit follow-up reviews to ensure management corrective action plans have been effectively implemented
• Provides measurable input into new products, processes, standards, and/or operational plans that impact Internal Audit Services, and proactively improves upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation
• Conducts extensive investigation and critical thinking to understand root causes of problems that span a wide range of difficult and unique issues across functions and/or businesses
• Manages large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams. May direct the work of other individual contributors and/or act as a cross-functional team lead
• Leverages data analytics and technical expertise to analyze complex datasets, identify risk patterns and anomalies, and drive data-driven audit insights; actively utilizes and champions emerging technologies, including AI, to enhance audit efficiency, coverage, and quality

Skills

Analysis Skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Auditing, Business Process Management, Business Processes, Business Strategy, CISA - Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Communication Skills, Corrective Action, Cross-Functional, Data Analysis, Data Sets, Documentation, Emerging Technology, Financial Control, Financial Management, Financial Operations, Healthcare, Identify Issues, Information Technology & Information Systems, Internal Audit, Leadership, Operational Audit, Operations Management, Operations Planning, Pharmacy, Policy Development, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Procedure Development, Process Analysis, Process Improvement, Project/Program Management, Regulations, Risk, Risk Analysis, Team Lead/Manager

About the Company

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

At the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), we provide business strategy, technical support and consulting expertise to 36 Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies across the nation, employing more than 1,000 of the best strategic thinkers in the industry.

We are a Brand manager that sets quality control standards for the 36 independent companies that use the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Brands, and we serve as a trade association that represents these Blue companies. It is through our involvement that the Blues companies share a united vision and strategy while also benefiting from the local strength of all member companies.

Company Size

2,000 to 2,499 employees

Industry

Insurance

Founded

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Website

https://www.bcbs.com/about-us/careers