Audit Manager

Join the American Heart Association and take your career on a Mission - to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. What's your motivation? Want satisfying work that makes a real difference in people's lives? At the American Heart Association we're working to prevent, treat and defeat our nation's No. 1 killer, cardiovascular disease. We have an excellent opportunity for an Audit Manager located in our National Headquarters, Dallas, TX.

The Audit Manager, with assistance from the Audit and Consulting Services (ACS) Director, provides expertise in planning and conducting audit and consulting projects for National Center and Affiliates to assess risk exposure and the efficiency and effectiveness of the control environment for safeguarding the Association's assets, including technology general controls.

This position will develop strategic audit and consulting plans to ensure accurate reporting of business operations and General Ledger transactions; provide consultation to National Center and Affiliates as a resource on a wide variety of topics (e.g. enterprise risk management, systems implementations, fraud, etc.); provide management with timely and meaningful feedback concerning the strategic, financial, compliance, technology and operational risks present and the overall effectiveness of the control environment and supervises audit staff.

Additional Responsibilities Will Include:

• Provides independent assessment and assurance that controls are functioning as intended. Leads and supervises audit projects at the National Center, Affiliates and supporting locations that assess efficiency and effectiveness of systems in compliance with Board policies, management decisions and legal/regulatory requirements, as well as reviewing for evidence of fraud. Schedules audits with auditees. Supervises audits to evaluate key controls, process efficiencies, safeguarding of assets, reporting accuracy, achievement of management objectives, compliance with legal/regulatory/internal requirements for various types of audits, including operational, financial, IT general controls, fraud investigation audits, and assisting external auditors to ensure accomplishment of annual Audit Plan, as approved by the Audit Committee. Each audit requires monitoring and coaching to ensure an understanding of the auditable unit, data analysis, risk assessment, audit program development, sample selection, workpaper documentation, root cause analysis, summarization of testing, value-added recommendations, clear reporting of results and strong verbal/written communication throughout the process.
• Provides consultation as a resource to management in systems implementations, enterprise risk management, fraud investigations, as well as serving as a sounding board for ideas, concerns, questions. Promotes risks intelligence across the association by facilitating risk workshops/discussions with management to help them identify key risks, controls and monitoring steps. Develops risk assessment tools to assist Audit Committee and auditee management in risk oversight. Provides information to clients at National Center and the Affiliates on a regular basis, detailing common problems found, finding solutions within the organization and identifying best practices
• Trains and advises ACS staff on audit methodologies to ensure consistent application and documentation of audit processes and to ensure compliance with Internal Audit Professional Practice Standards. Also, includes training for specific types of audits (e.g. business process reviews, information system general controls assessment, fraud investigations, vendor audits, etc). Develops data retrieval and computer audit techniques that expand audit coverage and focus on anomalies.

Qualified candidates will have the following experience and background:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting required
• CPA ,CIA, or CISA certification required. (Must be actively pursuing CPA or CIA certification.)
• 8+ years experience in Internal Audit and compliance with Institute of Internal Auditors Professional Standards
• 5+ years experience in supervising audit staff
• Excellent analytical, written and oral communication skills
• Ability to conceptualize, reason through problems, make effective decisions, develop alternative solutions and provide excellent customer service
• Skill in consulting, risk assessment, re-engineering and training
• Data extraction/analytics experience
• Proficient in Windows, Word, Excel, audit software, data analytics software
• Ability to travel approximately 25% of the time when necessary

Attracting talented, committed employees means offering a competitive benefits package, ongoing professional development and training, and a diverse and inclusive environment in which to work and grow. And we do.

To apply for this position or to see other opportunities with the American Heart Association please visit www.heart.org/careers. We no longer accept mailed, faxed or e-mailed resumes. Please apply for positions directly through our website. Only those candidates deemed most qualified by the hiring manager will be contacted to interview.

The American Heart Association is an Equal Opportunity Employer and works to prohibit discrimination and to assure fair and uniform treatment of applicants and employees in all aspects of Human Resources administration without regard to political or religious opinions or affiliations, membership or non-membership in employee organizations, age, sex, disability, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, marital status or any other non-merit factor.