What are the responsibilities and job description for the Audit Team Lead position at Northwest Bank?
Job Description
The Audit Team Lead is responsible for gathering, reviewing, and analyzing internally and externally generated guidance/documentation to assist Audit Management while ensuring that all key risks and critical policies are identified and considered for business audits. This position will review, trace, and summarize results against samples for proper evidence and present results to department manager and auditors. The Audit Team Lead will ensure comprehensive coverage of audit engagements, from start to finish, inclusive of scoping and follow up activities.
Essential Functions
- Knowledge of BancAudit/Nautilus/CBS/Data Analysis Tool/Audit Management Software
- Timekeeping/updating schedule of whereabouts during audits
- Meet departmental continuing education requirements and proactively seeking relevant education and training opportunities
- Familiar with Northwest documentation/processes/procedures
- Develop scope, audit objectives, and program based on assessed risk of subject matter
- Determine staffing requirements for Audit
- Produce plan for completing field work
- Plan audit approaches under the direction of the audit supervisor
- Oversee/collect of specific samples/data
- Oversee/record detailed information/data from samples
- Ensure document and data integrity
- Check results (findings) against samples for proper evidence
- Oversee/compile working papers as appropriate
- Summarize results/findings
- Analyze results as related to Northwest
- Prepare meeting materials (soft, and final exits)
- Present relevant findings appropriately to department manager and auditors
- Produce various audit reports/management letters
- Perform special reviews at the request of management
- Appraise adequacy of the corrective action taken to improve deficient conditions
- Obtain and analyze evidence, ensure audit conclusions are well-documented
- Identify and communicate issues raised, recommend solutions relevant to business units and risk management
- Research and interpret relevance of specific regulations along with assessing document and data integrity
- Determine required audits for relevant segment/special projects
- Self-learn/maintain extensive knowledge of Northwest’s Risk Appetite Policy, Board of Director Reports, Board of Director and Bank-Level Committee packages, SOX internal control narratives and test scripts, Call Reports and supporting schedules, Business Unit Risk Assessments
Additional Essential Functions
- Ensure compliance with Northwest’s policies and procedures, and Federal/State regulations
- Navigate Microsoft Office Software, computer applications, and software specific to the department in order to maximize technology tools and gain efficiency
- Work as part of a team
- Work with on-site equipment
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance preferred
Work Experience
5 - 6 years Bank auditing experience & General business-related experience preferred
General Employee Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Ability to establish effective working relationships among team members and participate in solving problems and making decisions
- Ability to present and express ideas and information clearly and concisely in a manner appropriate to the audience, whether oral or written
- Ability to actively listen to what others are saying to achieve understanding, sharing information with others and facilitating the open exchange of ideas and information
- Ability to establish courses of action for self to accomplish specific goals, develop and use tracking systems for monitoring own work progress, and effectively use resources such as time and information
- Ability to make right decisions based on perceptive and analytical processes, practicing good judgment in gray areas
Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Candidate must possess extensive knowledge of and be fluent in the review of, but not limited to regulatory exam reports, compliance reports, third party risk associated with various business units
Northwest is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
