Senior Internal Auditor (CPA, CISA, CIA certs highly preferred) - HYBRID

Vanderbilt University Medical Center • Nashville, TN

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. Organization: IT Internal Audit Job Summary: Job Summary Performs assessments of the design and effectiveness of operational, compliance and financial internal controls independently. Performs project planning, risk assessment and time accounting efforts. Assesses compliance with policies and procedures and provides recommendations for improved controls. Implements large/multiple projects simultaneously. Functions as lead on certain projects and may lead teams. Coaches development of Auditors. . Key Responsibilities Leads project planning function, including risk assessment development, audit program development and time accounting. Leads entrance and exit conferences keeping internal client apprised of project status, engagement observations and potential recommendations. Assesses policies, procedures, and internal controls for adequacy of design and effectiveness and analyzes financial transactions and operations. Makes recommendations to improve controls. May participate in institutional task forces and other special committees related to the achievement of goals and objective. Promotes awareness of internal controls and provide a mechanism to heighten customer awareness of the internal audit function and assurance and advisory services performed. Our professional administrative functions include critical supporting roles in information technology and informatics, finance, administration, legal and community affairs, human resources, communications and marketing, development, facilities, and many more. At our growing health system, we support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt Health for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose. PEOPLE ARE AT THE HEART OF ALL WE DO. Our vision: The world leader in advancing personalized health. Our mission: personalizing the patient experience through our caring spirit and distinctive capabilities. Making Health Care Personal. We’re looking for like-minded individuals driven to make a difference. We invite you to explore careers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. At VUMC, we place a priority on designing with and for our patients and families. We value collaboration, embrace continuous learning and discovery, and seek to be a place where everyone has the chance to thrive. We’re the largest private employer in Middle Tennessee, with a growing team and expanding footprint in towns and communities across the region. We employ more than 28,000 people who work in inpatient and outpatient clinical care, research, and graduate medical education as well as critical supporting roles in administration, information technology and informatics, finance, legal and community affairs, communications and marketing, fund-raising, groundskeeping and facilities, and many more. Our growing health system has more than 1,700 licensed hospital beds at: Vanderbilt University Hospital Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital It’s also home to hundreds of outpatient clinic and surgical locations throughout the region. We serve our community with many unique and specialized services including the Level 1 Trauma Center, a highly experienced Transplant Center that does the most heart transplants in the world, a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lung Institute, Burn Center and many more. World-leading academic departments and centers make scientific discoveries, advance clinical care and train the next generation of health care professionals. Our robust research enterprise consistently ranks among the highest in the country as measured by peer-reviewed grant funding from the National Institutes of Health. We’re honored to be consistently considered among the nation’s best hospitals, including being nationally ranked in multiple medical specialties for treating the most complex conditions in adults and children by US News and World Report. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt ranked as the No. 1 children’s hospital in the southeast in 2024. We support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at VUMC for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose. Join us in Making Health Care Personal.

Requirements

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's
• Minimum Experience: 5 Year(s)
• Audit Planning (Advanced): Ability to anticipate resource needs and then arrange, prioritize and shape activities to meet objectives.
• Operational Auditing (Advanced): Ensuring compliance with established policy and procedures and to recommending any necessary changes. It will include the independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of the design and operational effectiveness of information technology or internal controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures.
• Variance Analysis (Advanced): Ability analyze of the factors that have caused the difference between the pre-determined standards and the actual results.
• Control Testing (Advanced): The activities performed by auditors in gathering evidence as to the effectiveness of operations of control procedures. Understands that tests of control include observation, inspection, testing and inquiry. Recognizes that where the information system is computerized, evidence may also be gathered using computer assisted audit techniques.
• Audit Best Practices (Advanced): The sets of refined policies, procedures, processes, techniques, tools and methodologies that have been optimized for efficiency and effectiveness, and adopted within the organization.

Nice To Haves

• CPA, CISA, CIA certs highly preferred
• Professional certification within 18-24 months of hire/promotion (CIA, CPA, CISA, CISSP, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Leads project planning function, including risk assessment development, audit program development and time accounting.
• Leads entrance and exit conferences keeping internal client apprised of project status, engagement observations and potential recommendations.
• Assesses policies, procedures, and internal controls for adequacy of design and effectiveness and analyzes financial transactions and operations.
• Makes recommendations to improve controls.
• May participate in institutional task forces and other special committees related to the achievement of goals and objective.
• Promotes awareness of internal controls and provide a mechanism to heighten customer awareness of the internal audit function and assurance and advisory services performed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees