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The Audit Plan Oversight Lead Analyst will support the growth of Internal Audit’s planning process, building strong partnerships with key stakeholders across IA, and helping the Planning Team in driving IA’s approach in formulating assurance activities to focus on key high and emerging risk areas, data quality, and identifying efficiency opportunities within the plan.

This analytical role requires the establishment of strong working relationships across all levels of IA’s organization to enable smooth coordination of MI activities, drive insightful analysis and reporting around IA’s assurance plan, and ensure the plan helps achieve IA's strategic aims as well as meeting regulatory expectations.

The Global Planning Lead Analyst will partner with IA Product/Functions, Quality Assurance Directors, Resource Management Team and other Planning Team members to become a plan expert and support the development and maintenance of IA’s assurance plan. With this expertise, the Global Planning Lead Analyst will assist with the preparation of management, regulatory and board reporting.

This role will also support change initiatives as it relates to planning, with a focus on continuous improvement through the consideration/adoption of innovative solutions to drive process efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain good working knowledge of IA’s methodology, especially, including audit universe requirements for coverage of its entities; and IA’s systems in place to support the audit workflow.

• Build strong partnerships with IA Product/Functions and Quality Assurance teams to ensure assurance plan addresses areas of key risks becoming a plan expert for the team.

• Work closely with the Resource Management Team and the Product/Function in ensuring that the assurance plan is properly aligned with staff utilization.

• Act as a strong advocate for data quality across all IA MI data, promoting accuracy, completeness and consistency among users who interact with IA data in source systems.

• Provide plan-related information throughout the planning process, including but not limited to analysis of proposed assurance hours, auditable entity coverage, and exception reports identifying areas for remediation.

• Interact with production- and internally-developed applications/tools to verify information and data quality.

• Support the preparation of high-quality, board-level reporting that describes IA’s assurance plan and key coverage focus areas, including overview, executive narrative and necessary appendices, ensuring a succinct summary of the key items/themes for attention, supported by accurate, insightful analysis.

• Ensure that operational information related to plan execution is provided timely to key stakeholders; review Operational MI to ensure output and metrics are consistent with expected progression/development;

• Support the Planning Team in establishing and maintaining the annual planning and refresh timeline, consistent with Audit Committee reporting deadlines.

• Support the Planning Team in maintaining the “Planning Champion” network, including education of Planning Champions and key stakeholders on responsibilities throughout the planning process, including data cleansing and data quality.

• Ensure that the IA Product/Function’s planning approach is aligned with IA’s methodology and applicable regulatory requirements.

• Monitor changes in IA Product/Function’s organization (e.g. management appointments, regional re-orgs, etc.) and ensure that plan tracking and Operational MI is updated accordingly

Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience within Internal Audit, with expertise in IIA standards and risk and control.

• High level of proficiency with data analysis, including use of Excel, VBA, and SQL.

• Experience providing timely, high-quality and insightful data analytics and reporting for senior management under tight deadlines.

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.

• Excellent quantitative and qualitative analytical skills with a proven ability to operate in a manually intensive data environment, extracting large volumes of data from disparate sources, cleansing and validating it, and transforming it into high quality, insightful and succinct ‘Board-level’ and senior management reporting that includes focused analysis, trending, and strong summarization of results.

• Demonstrated ability to partner with and influence others and collaborate across global, cross functional teams.

• High level of proficiency with the MS Office Suite is essential, including Excel functions. VBA knowledge is a plus, as is experience working with datasets in an SQL environment. SharePoint knowledge (development/creation of lists, document libraries, etc.) preferred.

• Strong coordination and project management skills.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Job Family Group:

Decision Management

Job Family:

Business Analysis

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location:

Tampa Florida United States

Primary Location Salary Range:

$113,840.00 - $170,760.00

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