**Responsibilities:** • Lead and support audit activities such as risk assessments, audit testing, control evaluation, work paper documentation, follow-up and issue closure verification. • Partner with colleagues, clients and control community members to evaluate the control environment. Make recommendations to strengthen internal controls. • Stay up-to-date with evolving regulatory changes and market events that impact the business. • Perform ongoing analysis of risk trends through business monitoring and audit coverage execution. • Partner with other groups within Audit to ensure complete coverage to deliver an integrated audit program. • Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of business areas, financial products, and supporting functions. • Perform continuous monitoring of various business groups. • Perform data collection and analysis in compliance with audit program requirements to identify, analyze and recommend changes to core business processes. • Assist in performing design reviews over assigned audit areas to identify key controls. • Independently perform tests of operational effectiveness to validate controls. • Identify, review, assess and document risk management and control issues of assigned business processes. • Assist with the preparation of written recommendations regarding the effectiveness of assigned business processes. Prepare follow-up plans to ensure aforementioned recommendations are addressed. • Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned. **Knowledge and Skills:** • Fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of auditing and risk assessment. • Fundamental concepts of financial markets and products. • Fundamental concepts of finance and accounting. • Understanding of operational risks and related controls of regulations. • Works well individually and in a team. Shares information supports colleagues and encourages participation. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex and sensitive issues to Senior Management. • Strong analytical skills, particularly in regard to assessing the probability and impact of an internal control weakness. • Proven ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, learn quickly, be flexible and think strategically. • Proven ability to multi task, complete projects on time and within a budget, and adapt to changing priorities. • Enthusiastic, self-motivated, and effective under pressure. • Planning, organizing and conducting audits. • Identifying key business processes. • Identifying and documenting risk management issues. • Testing key controls within business processes. • Preparing written reports and delivering oral presentations. **Educational/Previous Experience Requirements:** • Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Accounting and a minimum of two (2) years of experience in the financial services industry. ~or~ • Any equivalent combination of education, training or experience approved by Human Resources.