Staff Auditor

Gallo•Modesto, CA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Staff Auditor collaborates with colleagues on financial and operational audits and projects, evaluating internal controls, identifying opportunities for improvement, and supporting sound business practices. The role involves compiling, analyzing, and testing data; interviewing process owners; and preparing documentation for audit results and recommendations. Working with engagement leads and cross-functional partners, the Staff Auditor contributes throughout the engagement lifecycle, from planning and fieldwork through reporting and wrap-up. The role also provides exposure to winery departments and affiliated operating business units through audits, consulting projects, and development of audit programs for new areas. As knowledge grows, the employee may take on increased responsibility and contribute expertise to projects that improve processes and strengthen the organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree plus 2 years of accounting, finance, audit, economics, statistics, or mathematics experience with increasing responsibility; or a bachelor’s degree plus 1 year of relevant Gallo experience; or a bachelor’s degree plus 1 year of public audit or accounting experience.
Understanding and application of auditing and accounting concepts.
Intermediate proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.
Ability to travel 10 to 25 percent of the time annually.
Ability to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation; this may be additional to other travel requirements.
Must be 18 years or older.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree plus a combination of 4 years of internal audit, public accounting, or other applicable business experience involving financial statement integrity, internal and external audits, internal controls, financial statement analysis, and operational improvement in a manufacturing business environment, with increasing responsibility.
Experience learning data and process workflows, identifying key controls, designing tests of key controls, developing or testing SOX-related work, and interpreting business, professional, technical, legal, or regulatory materials.
Effective planning, organizational, and communication skills; analytical, problem-solving, judgment, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills; report-writing and presentation skills; and experience defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts, drawing conclusions, working independently or on a team, leading by example, and completing multiple assignments on time.
Experience with audit and project procedures, documentation standards, risk assessments, mathematical and statistical analysis, strategic process-improvement projects, major ERP applications such as JD Edwards or SAP, basic MS Access and ACL, intermediate MS Visio, and developing queries to extract, validate, and analyze data.
Professional certification or progress toward CPA, CIA, CMA, or CFE certification.

Responsibilities

Collaborate on financial and operational audits and projects.
Evaluate internal controls and identify opportunities for improvement.
Compile, analyze, and test data.
Interview process owners.
Prepare documentation supporting audit results and recommendations.
Contribute to audit engagements from planning and fieldwork through reporting and wrap-up.
Participate in audits, consulting projects, and development of audit programs for new areas.
Contribute to projects aimed at improving processes and strengthening the organization.