Your Role

The Internal Audit Services team performs internal audits and advisory services to provide assurance on specific internal control objectives and emerging risk areas. The Internal Audit Principal will report to the Internal Audit Senior Director. In this role, you will be leading and managing financial, operational, and integrated audits and advisory engagements. You will also be assessing the design and effectiveness of internal controls for business processes, financial reporting and measurement activities, and related applications in accordance with laws, regulations, policies, standards, and procedures using established tools and techniques.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Execute the annual audit plan by performing audit procedures, including identifying and defining issues, developing criteria, reviewing, and analyzing evidence, and documenting management processes and procedures
• Provide expertise in internal controls including project management, business process analysis, financial control disciplines, and information technology
• Implement strategic goals established by Internal Audit Services leadership
• Support Internal Audit management is the annual risk assessment process to develop the annual audit plan
• Identify, develop, and document audit issues and recommendations using independent judgment concerning areas being reviewed
• Prepares and delivers reports and presentations to various levels of management
• Performs post-audit follow-up reviews to ensure management corrective action plans have been effectively implemented
• Provides measurable input into new products, processes, standards, and/or operational plans that impact Internal Audit Services, and proactively improves upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation
• Conducts extensive investigation and critical thinking to understand root causes of problems that span a wide range of difficult and unique issues across functions and/or businesses
• Manages large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams. May direct the work of other individual contributors and/or act as a cross-functional team lead

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Requires at least 7 years of prior related experience
• Ability to communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization
• Extensive understanding of internal controls and the ability to leverage this knowledge to make effective audit and advisory recommendations
• Internal audit and risk assessment practices and methodologies. IT general and automated technical controls concepts
• Application controls and end-user computing controls. Data analysis techniques preferable
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and/or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) preferred

Pay Range: The pay range for this role is $136,400.00 to $204,600.00 for California.

Note: Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

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