Director of Audits

11 hours ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Maserati of San Diego Full time
Job Summary

As the Director of Audits, you will oversee the audit function for the Chicago campus and related satellite locations, Wolcott, Wood and Taylor, LLC, and the System Offices in coordination with the Director of Audits at Urbana-Champaign and Director of IT Audits. Your primary responsibility will be to manage the performance of professional auditors while ensuring their compliance with the Institute of Internal Auditors International Professional Practices Framework (IIA Standards), the State of Illinois Fiscal Control and Internal Auditing Act (FCIAA), and the University Audit Office (Office) standards.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop, document, disseminate, and implement a two-year audit plan for each of the audit function responsibility areas.
  • Assist in the development, coordination, and implementation of the two-year audit plan for audits that would be conducted on a University-wide or multi-campus basis.
  • Manage the performance of professional auditors while ensuring their compliance with IIA Standards, FCIAA, and Office standards.
  • Identify and advise University, campus, URO management on ways to improve the effectiveness of governance, risk management, and internal control processes.
  • Work closely with senior leadership, management, and staff to monitor management's elimination of significant identified risks and weaknesses and communicate with senior University, campus, and URO management regarding the status of recommendations issued or risks noted.
  • On an appropriate risk basis, work closely with the Board members and committees of the UROs to develop and communicate the audit plans and disseminate audit results and to provide information related to the audit function that they request in order to carry out their duties.
  • Keep abreast of changes in the University, State, and Federal environment that relate to governance, risk management, and internal controls in a university setting and engage with University and campus management, and other compliance/risk function managers to ensure the University is aware of and is addressing those changes.
  • Work with the Director of Audits at Urbana-Champaign and the Director of IT Audits to exchange information on risks, University or Office policies and procedures, laws and regulations, and other issues that might impact the University or UROs.
  • Ensure coverage of the two-year audit plan, along with the objectives and scope of each audit, are in conformance with IIA Standards and compliance with FCIAA, and are consistent with the Office's mission.
  • Assist in the gathering of information for, and review of the Office's Annual Audit Report.
  • Oversee the utilization of resources devoted to investigations.
  • Manage and support auditors in developing procedures, performing investigation fieldwork, conducting interviews, documenting work performed, communicating findings and obtaining agreement for any internal control or process recommendations, and developing reports, as needed.
  • Develop relationships and work closely with location-specific University Police and State's Attorneys to provide and present investigation results in a manner that will facilitate successful decisions, charging, and prosecution, as determined by the Police and the State's Attorneys.
  • Work may involve coordination with these offices and witness or expert testimony.
  • Provide consulting services, in conformance with The IIA Standards, as requested and necessary for the optimal outcome of a particular need.
  • Hire, evaluate, mentor, promote, discipline, and terminate staff.
  • Ensure staff obtain training, through in-house or externally provided agencies, sufficient to provide the requisite knowledge, skills, and competencies to carry-out the audit plan, including those that are specifically required by certifications, state regulation, and campus organizational memberships.
  • This may include developing campus-specific in-house training.
  • Authorize expenditures and oversee the use of allocated funds to conduct the previously assigned activities.
  • Assist in the development of and compliance with Office policies and procedures.
  • Assist in the development, maintenance, and monitoring of the Office's Quality Assurance and Improvement Program.
  • Perform special assignments.

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