Internal Audit Specialist

7 hours ago


Deerfield, Illinois, United States Discover Full time

At Discover, we're committed to delivering on our promises to our customers. To achieve this, we're seeking a skilled Internal Audit Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our Internal Audit department, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting.

As an Internal Audit Specialist, you'll be responsible for advancing more technical concepts unique to the role, problem-solving, and analysis. You'll require a moderate degree of judgement for the appropriate application of Corporate Policy, GAAP, Regulation, or established framework. You'll regularly make evaluations of facts and circumstances and effectively communicate conclusions and recommendations for remediation or process improvements.

You'll actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. Additionally, you'll work and communicate with internal stakeholders and external auditors on SOX matters, including coordination of quarterly and annual certifications, scoping and testing efforts, and issue identification, isolation, and remediation for the audit of the company's internal controls over financial reporting.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Participating in the annual planning of the company's SOX compliance efforts (e.g., risk assessment, materiality, significant accounts disclosures, establish milestones of key SOX activities, etc.).
  • Working with functional business areas to analyze and evaluate control deficiencies, develops remediation plans, and quickly analyzes the impact to the financial statements and the internal controls over financial reporting.
  • Preparing documentation supporting conclusions on the operating effectiveness of the company's internal controls over financial reporting, ensuring that the work papers meet internal and professional standards, are aligned with the COSO 2013 framework, and is available to key stakeholders as appropriate.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, or related field
  • 2 years of experience in Public Accounting, Internal Audit

Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.



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