Senior Internal Auditor

Portland General Electric • Portland, OR

1d • $89,175 - $148,625 • Hybrid

About The Position

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all. At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all. Are you ready to apply your audit, risk, and governance expertise towards PGE’s exciting and sustainable future? To help enable this transformation, we are seeking an experienced Senior Internal Auditor to join our Internal Audit Services team. This is an opportunity to apply your financial and business knowledge and critical judgment to execute risk-driven and advisory engagements that provide visibility and value-driven results across the organization. In this role you can contribute to the future of PGE’s assurance and advisory practices across a variety of emerging risks, areas of growth, operational practices, compliance requirements, SOX/financial disciplines, and technology areas. To be a part of our integrated Internal Audit Services team encompassing technology, safety and financial/operations specialists, we are looking for a candidate with demonstrated, exceptional verbal and written skills, risk acumen, and passion for value-added results. Key Scope and Areas of Impact: Leads planning and fieldwork for assurance and advisory engagements, data review and analysis, performing complex research, efficiently and effectively documenting work in support of reporting, coordinating and reviewing the work of others, and drives ownership of their work to meet engagement quality and timelines. Drafts clear, concise, and progressive audit and consultation reports, making risk reduction and/or process improvement recommendations. Supports our clients by providing regular updates on risk mitigation activities and reporting as well as communicating conclusions to clients, including difficult and complex outcomes when necessary. Designs effective and efficient control test plans and performs control testing to enable management to assess the operating effectiveness of key controls. Effective project management skills to monitor their own progress to ensure work is completed within agreed upon timelines. Proactively engages with management on tracking and resolving remediations and other solutions to resolve previously identified risks through completed audit engagements. Performs a variety of individual and department administrative tasks and implements process improvement initiatives. Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial controls, including SOX audit planning, walkthroughs, testing, and control validations is preferred. Knowledge and understanding of the Institute of Internal Auditors’ Global Internal Audit Standards for planning, performing, and reporting on assurance and advisory engagements is preferred.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in finance, computer science, liberal arts or other related field or equivalent experience is required.
• Typically five or more years in business, internal auditing, public accounting or related functions.
• Professional licenses/certifications preferred and may be required within one year of obtaining position (CPA, CIA, CRMA, CFE, CISA, etc.).
• Experience conducting audit engagements from planning, to fieldwork through reporting – along with a basic understanding and application of project management techniques.
• Skilled at interacting with a variety of technical and non-technical functions and negotiating and resolving differences around simple to complex and sometimes challenging risks.
• A willingness to research and understand emerging regulatory topics that are complex or difficult to understand and incorporate them into audit processes.
• Proficient use of Microsoft applications.
• Data analysis tool knowledge is a plus.
• Effective communication skills to foster collaboration, build relationships, and drive results through constructive discussions.

Responsibilities

• Leads planning and fieldwork for assurance and advisory engagements, data review and analysis, performing complex research, efficiently and effectively documenting work in support of reporting, coordinating and reviewing the work of others, and drives ownership of their work to meet engagement quality and timelines.
• Drafts clear, concise, and progressive audit and consultation reports, making risk reduction and/or process improvement recommendations.
• Supports our clients by providing regular updates on risk mitigation activities and reporting as well as communicating conclusions to clients, including difficult and complex outcomes when necessary.
• Designs effective and efficient control test plans and performs control testing to enable management to assess the operating effectiveness of key controls.
• Effective project management skills to monitor their own progress to ensure work is completed within agreed upon timelines.
• Proactively engages with management on tracking and resolving remediations and other solutions to resolve previously identified risks through completed audit engagements.
• Performs a variety of individual and department administrative tasks and implements process improvement initiatives.
• Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial controls, including SOX audit planning, walkthroughs, testing, and control validations is preferred.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Institute of Internal Auditors’ Global Internal Audit Standards for planning, performing, and reporting on assurance and advisory engagements is preferred.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level