Auditor

JOB PURPOSE/ROLE

The mission of the Internal Audit department is to provide AllianzAM entities with independent, risk oriented and objective review and consulting services to help improve business operations. The US Internal Audit team is based in New York City and Newport Beach and is part of the Global Internal Audit team with additional presence in Munich, Frankfurt, and Hong Kong. As a member of the US Internal Audit team, you will support and perform audits in various locations throughout the United States and also contribute to audit activities carried out by the Internal Audit teams in Europe and Asia. The position will focus on supporting operational and financial risk-based audits as well as contributing to data analytical, statistical and data management routines to support the review of business processes.

What you will do

As a member to the Internal Audit team, you will:

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with business area stakeholders to provide audit support and contribute internal controls expertise.
• Support and conduct business and integrated audits as well as selected consulting activities designed to assess and improve operations within the Asset Management business.
• Support various aspects of audit engagements, including audit planning, fieldwork preparation and escalation of potential weaknesses and risks to the Audit Lead.
• Contribute to audit work programs and conduct audit fieldwork, including documenting processes and procedures, performing testing, reviewing and analysing documentation, and identifying process and control issues.
• Draft clear and concise audit findings, reflect on deficiencies identified during audit fieldwork and contribute practical recommendations to mitigate risk.
• Support the annual audit risk assessment for selected areas within the operational entities and contribute input for the subsequent year’s annual audit plan.
• Perform follow-up activities to evaluate the sufficiency and timeliness of management responses and corrective action taken in response to audit recommendations.
• Implement computer-assisted audit techniques (CAATs) to support audit engagements.
• Build data analytic procedures to efficiently test complete populations and support the implementation of data visualization tools to understand the significance of data by placing it in a visual context and detect patterns, trends and correlations.
• Share data analytics best practices both horizontally and vertically throughout the organization and its various locations.
• Implement data visualization tools to understand the significance of data by placing it in a visual context and detect patterns, trends and correlations.