Staff Auditor

Description

Staff Auditor - Commercial Lending and Credit

Citizens is looking for a motivated, hardworking individual to join our Internal Audit team as a Staff Auditor! We're a team of more than 100 skilled professionals charged with consistently providing the Board, Audit Committee, Shareholders, and Executive Management with an independent and objective view of the effectiveness of the bank’s control environment, risk management practices, and culture. This role is a smart career move, as it offers the opportunity to learn new skills, get exposure, and advance your career. Or, you can use it to gain a strong understanding of risk and control on which you can build and expand your professional career. You will feel valued for who you are and supported to achieve what’s important to you, personally and professionally!

Primary responsibilities include

Along with other colleagues, the Staff Auditor will perform risk-based audits of Corporate Banking, Commercial Real Estate, Business Banking, Community Development, and supporting operational and credit functions, including Commercial Loan Operations and Allowance for Credit Losses. The Staff Auditor will: 

• Participate in the planning, fieldwork, and wrap-up of audits.
• Review and document business processes to ensure that controls are in place, effective, sustainable, and in compliance with bank standards and regulatory requirements.
• Perform testing to confirm control effectiveness, documenting work in Internal Audit’s system of record and verbally communicating results to Internal Audit and bank management. 
• Validate that management’s corrective action to resolve Internal Audit-raised issues is effective.
• Develop and use analytical skills to evaluate data, looking for patterns, trends, and exceptions, and build effective methods of testing controls.
• Participate in other audit activities with team members, including evaluating the control environment of a business unit through innovate methods. 

Qualifications, Education, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials

• 1-5 years of work experience, preferably in a lending or related support function in a financial institution
• Ability to work in a team environment, and independently when required
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to quickly understand, document and explain bank processes based on observations/interviews with bank colleagues.
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task and track progress of assigned work in support of large projects
• Experience using and analyzing data
• Experience with MS Office suite of applications including Word and Excel
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Understanding of bank regulations and industry practices is a plus
• Travel 5 – 10%

Hours & Work Schedule

Hours per Week: 40 (4-days in-office)

Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Some job boards have started using jobseeker-reported data to estimate salary ranges for roles. If you apply and qualify for this role, a recruiter will discuss accurate pay guidance.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.