Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TALENT SHIFT is a marketplace connecting professionals with project-based opportunities at dynamic companies. The Finance Audit Consultant will support a banking client by executing risk-based audits, evaluating internal controls, conducting end-to-end audit engagements, and advising senior leaders on governance, risk, and controls.
Responsibilities
- Execute risk-based audits of financial reporting, regulatory capital, liquidity, and treasury activities, assessing control effectiveness and key risk exposures across complex banking processes
- Evaluate the design and execution of internal controls over critical finance functions, identifying thematic issues and recommending practical, risk-focused improvements
- Conduct end-to-end audit engagements, including planning, fieldwork, stakeholder discussions, and executive-level reporting, while ensuring adherence to audit methodology and regulatory expectations
- Provide independent challenge to senior finance and business leaders on governance, risk management, and control matters, leveraging data analysis and industry knowledge to assess emerging risks and trends
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in accounting, finance, or other related fields
- 5+ years of relevant internal audit experience with a large global bank
- Qualified applicants must reside in the continental U.S
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States now and in the future
Benefits
- This contract role is fully-remote.
- Total compensation and benefits consist of salary, group health plan benefits, 401(K), profit-sharing contributions, flexible time off, and parental leave.
- For positions that are non-exempt, eligibility for overtime pay at a rate of one and a half times the hourly rate for hours worked over 40 in a work week.
- Benefits are eligibility-based and could include group health plan benefits, 401(K), profit-sharing contributions, flexible time off, and parental leave.
- For Illinois positions, non-exempt/hourly employees are eligible for time and a half pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.
- For Washington positions, eligibility-based benefits could include medical, dental, vision, tax-savings plans, 401(K), profit-sharing contributions, flexible time off, holidays, and parental leave.
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