Senior Auditor

E. & J. Gallo Winery•Modesto, CA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Auditor, you’ll play a critical role in helping the organization operate with integrity, transparency, and confidence. You’ll lead audit engagements across winery departments and affiliated operating businesses, applying deep technical expertise and sound judgment to evaluate processes, identify risks, and assess the effectiveness of internal controls. Your work will help provide reasonable assurance that business operations are compliant, efficient, and aligned with company policies and standards. In this role, you’ll partner closely with management and Internal Audit leadership, contributing to advisory projects that go beyond compliance to drive meaningful process improvements. You’ll plan and execute audits from start to finish—researching, developing audit plans, performing testing, analyzing data, and clearly documenting results and recommendations. You’ll also leverage approved AI and machine-learning tools to enhance analytics and testing, while ensuring audit evidence integrity and adherence to information security and AI use policies. Just as important, you’ll serve as a leader and mentor within the audit team. You’ll provide guidance, training, and performance feedback to engagement staff, helping them grow their skills and confidence. Through interviews, presentations, and written reports, you’ll communicate audit results clearly and professionally, influencing stakeholders at multiple levels and supporting the successful completion of audit and advisory projects.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years of accounting, finance, audit, economics, statistics or mathematics experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility, OR Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of Gallo finance, accounting, audit, economics, statistics or mathematics experience to include 2 years business auditing experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of public audit or accounting experience to include 2 years of business auditing experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
Minimum 2 years of internal or external auditing experience.
Strong understanding of Internal Auditing methodologies and standards and adept at assessing complex processes to identify potential financial, operational, and compliance risks warranting audit attention.
Demonstrated knowledge of business processes, internal controls, and governance principles.
Strong critical thinking mentality, while demonstrating the initiative to learn new processes and business functions.
Intermediate MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint; skilled at typing 35-40 wpm.
Required to travel up to 20 percent of time annually.
Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Required to be 18 years or older.

Nice To Haves

Professional certification in one or more of the following: CPA, CIA, CFE, or CMA.
Master’s or MBA degree.
Experience working on projects that have strategic impact and improve the process efficiency of the Company.
Demonstrates strong facilitation, project management, communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Lead audit engagements across winery departments and affiliated operating businesses.
Apply deep technical expertise and sound judgment to evaluate processes, identify risks, and assess the effectiveness of internal controls.
Provide reasonable assurance that business operations are compliant, efficient, and aligned with company policies and standards.
Partner closely with management and Internal Audit leadership, contributing to advisory projects that go beyond compliance to drive meaningful process improvements.
Plan and execute audits from start to finish—researching, developing audit plans, performing testing, analyzing data, and clearly documenting results and recommendations.
Leverage approved AI and machine-learning tools to enhance analytics and testing, while ensuring audit evidence integrity and adherence to information security and AI use policies.
Serve as a leader and mentor within the audit team.
Provide guidance, training, and performance feedback to engagement staff.
Communicate audit results clearly and professionally through interviews, presentations, and written reports, influencing stakeholders at multiple levels and supporting the successful completion of audit and advisory projects.