Internal Auditor

What You'll Do:

We’re looking for an Internal Auditor to join our Internal Audit & Risk Consulting team. In this role, you’ll support the execution of internal audits in accordance with established IIA standards. You’ll develop and maintain strong business relationships within Internal Audit and the global Principal community. If you enjoy digging into varied and complex environments, looking for key risks, controls, and working across business areas to provide assurance on the most important things that help Principal meet its objectives – this role is for you.

You'll Also Have The Opportunity To:

• Examine and evaluate Principal’s operational and financial processes against recognized Principal standards or established policies.
• Evaluate controls to protect customers, investors, employees, and assets to ensure integrity and alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
• Identify and assess key risks, controls, and test plans for assurance activities and present audit results in an objective and unbiased manner to stakeholders.
• Quickly assess which objectives are most impactful to company strategy, leverage professional judgement to align audit work to reflect on those objectives, and effectively escalate significant issues and risk exposures to appropriate levels of management.
• Evaluate and negotiate appropriate solutions to complex problems identified by assurance activities and leverage data and analytics to drive additional insight and efficiency in the analysis of audit subjects.
• Collaborate on multiple concurrent projects that have moderate to high complexity.

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years!

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, or business-related field, or equivalent experience required.
• 3 years of related experience - auditing experience or business process knowledge preferred.
• CIA, CPA or equivalent preferred (or desire to obtain in future).
• Ability to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding in how they enable Principal’s global business in an ever-changing operational, technical, and regulatory environment.
• Ability to be a continuous learner, where you can develop understanding in other critical subject areas subject to audit reviews.
• Informal leadership skills with the ability to influence and challenge with internal team members and external audit customers.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to reflect relevant facts from audit execution with domestic and globally oriented teams.
• Financial services experience is preferred.
• PC and/or system skills required (intermediate Excel/Access/Microsoft BI) preferred.

Salary Range Information: Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salary Range: $71250 - $116850 / year Time Off Program: Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided. Pension Eligible: Yes Additional Information:

Work Environments

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants

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Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Posting Window: We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline. Date First Posted (TTF): 4/9/2025 Latest Post Date: Careers - US: 4/9/2025

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