Become Part of Our Team

As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance 
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Paid Volunteer time
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

Summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking a Senior Auditor to join our team in Dallas, TX. This individual will be responsible for assisting the Internal Audit Manager/Director in providing internal audit coverage to two of our U.S. operating companies (Balfour Beatty Construction and Balfour Beatty Infrastructure) within the group. 

Essential Functions

• Train audit staff in methodology and technology.
• Supervise audit staff assigned to audits providing guidance and overall review of deliverables.
• Assist in developing an audit plan for each Operation Divisions/Company and create a schedule to perform audits on the plan throughout a given year.
• Perform a wide range of contract, division/region, and business process reviews, which will involve assessing key risks and identifying and reviewing those controls put in place by management.
• Perform financial reviews.
• Audit and evaluate accounting and operating policies and procedures, and recommend changes or further development to protect Company assets and/or improve operations.
• Discuss and agree findings with relevant management.
• Prepare reports on findings arising from those reviews.
• Make recommendations for the enhancement and improvement of control procedures.
• Managing the process of following up with Operation Divisions /Company management to ensure action plans have been implemented.
• Promotes and develops the use of IDEA in reviews
• In addition, the individual will assist the Internal Audit Manager and Internal Audit Director by conducting ad hoc assignments and special investigations as requested.

Promote Customer Relations

• Builds effective relationships with project teams, functional departments, customers, vendors, and user groups that reflect and support company core values and meets or exceeds the customer’s expectations.
• Actively participates in industry, client, and community relations to enhance company image.

Culture, Leadership and Employee Development

• Promotes our Creed. Communicates our vision and purpose through Service, Talent, and Choices.
• Serves as a role model and promotes professional behavior.
• Participates in personal career development through training, participates in software training and seminars as applicable for this position. 
• Perform miscellaneous duties as assigned.

Working Conditions

Working in an office type environment with intermittent sitting, standing and walking is required.

50% travel is required and will involve performing audit work at the Auditee’s site which can be located on a construction site.

Education, Experience, and Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree with major course work in accounting or related field.
• Two to five years of progressively responsible accounting and auditing experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience may be acceptable to the hiring authority.
• Ability to possess the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA).
• Knowledge of accounting principles (GAAP), auditing standards (GAAS), governmental accounting standards (GASB) and governmental accounting systems. Ability to understand and apply state laws, regulations and federal compliance requirements.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, reports, and legal documents.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, employees of organizations and/or administrators.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts as they relate to auditing and fiscal analysis to include accounting and the budget.
• Strong Engagement and Project Management skills, which include planning, organizing, managing and monitoring of audit engagements, a team of resources, and ensuring the overall achievement of prescribed timelines and budgets as outlined in the audit plan. This will also include the ability to multi-task and successfully delegate priority tasks.

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm®, we are challenging the construction industry’s assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation’s largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.