Staff Auditor

E. & J. Gallo Winery•Modesto, CA

14h•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re a family-owned company with a 90+ year legacy, that’s consistently recognized as a Glassdoor “Best Places to Work.” We have 130+ brands in our total alcohol beverage portfolio including wine, malt, spirits, and ready-to-drink beverages. We’re home to the #1 wine and spirits brands in the U.S. - Barefoot Wine & High Noon and are the official sponsors of the NFL, NHL, UFC, and PGA of America. Are you ready to make an impact, build your career, and help shape the future of GALLO? As a Staff Auditor, you’ll step into a dynamic environment where innovation, collaboration, and development are at the heart of what we do. You’ll leverage cutting-edge analytics, AI, and hands-on experiences to provide real value—while growing your skills and making connections across our business. You’ll gain exposure to all facets of our business, work alongside top talent, and grow your career with mentorship, training, and development opportunities. You’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team that values your ideas and invests in your success.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree plus 2 years of accounting, finance, audit, economics, statistics or mathematics experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 1 year of Gallo accounting, finance, audit, economics, statistics or mathematics experience; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 1 year of public audit or accounting experience.
Demonstrates understanding and application of auditing and accounting concepts.
Intermediate MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
Required to travel between 10 to 25 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

Bachelor’s degree plus a combination of 4 years of internal audit, public accounting or other applicable business experience ensuring the integrity of financial statements during internal and external audits; improving and testing of internal controls, analyzing financial statements, and recommending operational efficiency and effective improvements that are applicable to a manufacturing business environment reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
Experience learning and understanding data and process workflows, identifying key controls, designing tests of key controls.
Experience developing/testing SOX related work.
Experience reading, analyzing and interpreting relevant information from general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, legal documents or government regulations.
Demonstrates effective planning, organizational and communication skills.
Experience applying mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory and factor analysis.
Experience defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts, and drawing valid conclusions.
Experience working effectively individually or in a team environment and leading by example.
Demonstrates report writing and presentation skills.
Experience working on projects that have strategic impact and that improve the process efficiency of the Company.
Experience helping drive the resolution of business issues in a team environment.
Experience simultaneously working and completing multiple assignments on a timely basis.
Demonstrates strong analytical, problem solving, judgment, critical thinking and decision-making skills.
Knowledge of audit/project procedures, documentation standards and risk assessments and applies knowledge under supervision of others.
Knowledge and working experience with a major ERP application such as JD Edwards or SAP.
Computer skills requirements include: basic MS Access and ACL; intermediate MS Visio.
Experience developing queries to extract, validate and analyze data.
Experience with ACL desirable.
Professional certification or working towards obtaining certification in one of the following: CPA, CIA, CMA or CFE

Responsibilities

Conduct financial and operational audits and projects to assess compliance with internal policies and identify control gaps.
Compile, analyze, and test data to evaluate process effectiveness and support audit conclusions.
Support engagement leads through planning, fieldwork, report preparation, and timely wrap-up of engagements.
Interview process owners and stakeholders to understand workflows and document findings.
Prepare clear documentation and recommendations to support audit results.
Participate in operational/consulting projects to identify process improvement opportunities.
Help develop audit programs for new areas and contribute to college recruiting efforts as needed.