Audit Data Analyst - Senior Auditor (I)

USAA•San Antonio, TX

1d•$85,040 - $162,550•Hybrid

About The Position

As a dedicated Audit Data Analyst- Senior Auditor you will independently develop and execute advanced audit analytics for complex business and control questions. You will combine strong data, business, and risk acumen to design analytical tests and reusable solutions, interpret results, and communicate actionable insights. You will collaborate across Audit, business, data, and technology teams and contribute to continuous auditing, automation, and modernization of Audit Analytics practices. We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: Charlotte, NC, Plano, TX and San Antonio, TX.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Quantitative Analytics, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Data and/or Business Analysis, Data Science, or quantitative field; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
4 years experience with analytic coding techniques and visualization tools.
2 years experience in SAS, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, SQL, RPA, Power BI or other data analysis tools.
2 years’ experience working on data and analytics in an audit, risk, or controls environment.
1 year experience creating reporting dashboards and summarizing actionable results.
Experience developing data technology specific to auditing activities.
Ability to break down a complex problem into components, solve them using data analysis, process knowledge and risk/control knowledge, and communicate data analysis, issues and control recommendations with transparency and integrity.
Strong written and verbal communication skills that deliver quality, actionable and beneficial feedback to audit teams on potential control issues and solutions to close gaps.
Effectively works within a team and across teams to drive business results, employing creative thinking and the ability to work on competing priorities.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of audit, control, regulatory, or risk management requirements.
Working knowledge of financial services and/or insurance business processes.

Responsibilities

Applies data driven continuous auditing on business audits for the Audit Services team.
Participates and makes recommendations in the ideation and development of impactful and high-quality analytic control tests.
Participates and makes recommendations in the execution of audit analytics, analytic methodology, and/or adoption of analytic approaches.
Partners with audit teams to understand the data behind key processes, risks, and controls to develop analytic control tests. Analyzes and interprets results in a meaningful, clear, and concise manner.
Tracks and monitors progress against analytic control tests and projects and escalates results as needed to Audit leadership.
Prepares presentation communications of audit data analytics results and makes recommendations to Audit teams and leadership.
Develops data literacy skills through ongoing professional development. Champion of executing data analytics stratify and transformation.