What are the responsibilities and job description for the Audit Assistant position at Talent Groups?
Hybrid Details: Onsite 3 days/week Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
Duration: 6 months to start (with potential for extension)
Job Description
The client is looking for a Junior Internal Auditor or Audit Associate to support audit planning, testing, documentation, and reporting activities across a variety of business processes and control environments. This role involves assisting with risk assessments, internal control reviews, walkthroughs, audit testing, and maintaining accurate workpapers while ensuring compliance with audit standards and governance frameworks.
The ideal candidate has 0 2 years of experience, strong analytical and documentation skills, and a foundational understanding of internal audit, risk management, and control frameworks such as COSO, IIA, ISACA, or NIST. They should be detail-oriented, collaborative, and eager to learn within a professional audit and governance environment.
Core Responsibilities
Audit Planning and Engagement (Project) Support
Basic Understanding Of
Duration: 6 months to start (with potential for extension)
Job Description
The client is looking for a Junior Internal Auditor or Audit Associate to support audit planning, testing, documentation, and reporting activities across a variety of business processes and control environments. This role involves assisting with risk assessments, internal control reviews, walkthroughs, audit testing, and maintaining accurate workpapers while ensuring compliance with audit standards and governance frameworks.
The ideal candidate has 0 2 years of experience, strong analytical and documentation skills, and a foundational understanding of internal audit, risk management, and control frameworks such as COSO, IIA, ISACA, or NIST. They should be detail-oriented, collaborative, and eager to learn within a professional audit and governance environment.
Core Responsibilities
Audit Planning and Engagement (Project) Support
- Assist with the following:
- Assist in understanding the audit objectives, scope, and criteria
- Review background documentation (policies, procedures, regulations)
- Help prepare risk and control matrices (RCMs) or similar tools
- Gather preliminary information for process understanding and walkthroughs
- Assist with the following:
- Perform basic audit test procedures (design and operating effectiveness testing)
- Conducting walkthroughs with process owners
- Collect, analyze, and validate audit evidence
- Data entry and use of audit tools (e.g., GRC platforms like RSA Archer, SharePoint, etc.)
- Apply professional skepticism while following defined audit steps
- Assist with the following:
- Prepare clear, accurate, and complete audit engagement, workpapers, and reports
- Ensure documentation supports conclusions reached
- Follow internal audit methodology and quality standards
- Maintain evidence in accordance with retention and confidentiality requirements
- Drafting instructions and guidelines
- Assist with the following:
- Assist in drafting audit observations and findings
- Validate factual accuracy of issues with audit clients
- Support management and auditors in preparing engagement results
- Assist with the development and/or refinement of:
- Internal controls objectives and activities
- Risk management criteria
- Audit and GRC concepts
- Regulatory and operational environments compliance
- Adhere to the IIA Code of Ethics (Integrity, Objectivity, Confidentiality, Competency)
Basic Understanding Of
- Internal control concepts (e.g., COSO, IIA, ISACA, NIST, etc.)
- Audit techniques and sampling
- Business processes
- Risk assessment principles
- Analytical thinking
- Attention to detail
- Clear written documentation
- Professional communication
- Time management
- Proficiency with Office productivity and collaboration tools (MS Office 365, SharePoint, Outlook, Collaboration
- Tools/Solutions)
- Office Computer Skills:
- Understanding how to navigate the internet, use word processing software, and manage spreadsheets, etc., i.e., MS Office 365 and collaboration tools
- Familiarity with tools for remote work, such as video conferencing and team collaboration software
- Willingness to learn
- Professional skepticism
- Ethical judgment
- Collaboration and adaptability
- Patience and Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- Associate or bachelor s degree from a nationally or regionally accredited college or university in
- Accounting
- Finance
- Business
- Information Systems
- In lieu of formal education, a professional certification is desired at least one certification:
- ISACA Certificate or Certification, e.g., CISA, CISM, CRISC, etc.
- IIA Certification, e.g., IAP or CIA
- PMI Certificate or Certification, e.g., PMP, PMI-ACP, etc.
- Accounting Certificate or Certification
- 0 2 years of relevant experience