Are you an auditor or other business professional who wants to be a part of a high-performing team that strives to improve the company’s performance through assurance and advisory services designed to evaluate the company’s risk management, operations, and governance functions? Do you love working across geographies and business cultures to share best practices and advocate effective risk management and process excellence? If you want to make a difference and love a challenge, this is the position for you.
The ideal candidate for this job can work independantly and excel at learning new processes and business functions whilst being able to critically analyze controls systems to assess effectiveness, opportunities for improvements, and efficiency gains.
The candidate must be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and have strong problem solving and collaboration skills. This position involves a significant amount of exposure to senior management and requires the ability to communicate complex issues and recommendations, and the conviction to support them.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Although this is not a people manager role, you will drive results through Microsoft's leadership principles as an individual contributor.
Responsibilities
- You will coordinate, perform, and lead (internal and external) audits or areas of audits. You’ll also perform test work according to the professional standards of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and to regulations such as Sarbones-Oxley (SOX) testing and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- You will coordinate with stakeholders to identify and test controls and validate process documentations. You’ll also analyze financial and business information to identify improvement opportunities.
- To assist with project execution, you will evaluate risks and controls with limited oversight, ensuring compliance with IIA standards and guidelines for each assigned audit. You’ll also analyze the adequacy of control designs to validate their effectiveness.
- You’ll identify process deficiencies by testing project control performance against department standards and external requirements. You’ll also communicate audit information to stakeholders and the audit management team.
- You will develop draft audit issues by identifying and gathering support. You’ll also document the results of an audit for various audiences, including stakeholders, audit management, and senior leaders.
Qualifications
- Multiple years of demonstrated work experience in audit or a combination of auditing and other experience that includes audit, IT or another relevant field including privacy, sales and supply chain, control and compliance, or controllership
Effective communication skills and the ability to proficiently present recommendations to senior management
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally for a period of 1 week within each month (local and worldwide).
- Experienced in internal audit
Preferred qualifications:
- A BS/BA degree in the related field
- Professional certifications including CIA, CPA, Chartered Accountant, or CISA
- Specialized audit skills or industry experience such as financial statement auditing, privacy, sales and marketing, and operations.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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