Staff Auditor - Data Analytics

Job Description

Ameriprise Financial has an exciting opportunity for Staff Auditor in Data Analytics role! The individual would be responsible to apply data analytics and business intelligence solutions to meet Internal Audit objectives. Implement repeatable data analytics processes to provide audit assurance and improve audit efficiency and effectiveness. Help evolve the analytics program for Internal Audit throughout the implementation and execution process.

Responsibilities

Support the Internal Audit data analytics program throughout all phases of the audit process, including risk assessment, planning & prioritizing, fieldwork and reporting. Responsible for developing and completing data analysis procedure during audit engagements, under the direct supervision of audit project leads. Includes extracting business information from IT systems and databases, evaluating it and using it to develop strategies to attain audit objectives.

Apply Power BI capabilities (i.e., DAX, Power Query) to build visual dashboards for audit reporting and continuous auditing. These dashboards will provide insight into transactional records and improve decision making capacity during audits.

Leverage Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATs) such as robotic process automation (RPA), process mining, and other computer programming skills (e.g., Python) to automate audit data collection and audit testing practices for operational improvements.

Leverage analytical procedures to implement continuous audit engagements and continuous risk assessments.

Stay ahead of new industry tools and emerging technologies which may offer improved functionality or a more efficient and effective ability to deliver audit analytics solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent

• 0-1 years of experience

• Experience or strong academic knowledge with data manipulation programming languages (i.e.,SQL, Python,R, Power BI DAX)

• Strong understanding of or experience with relational databases

• Experience with Excel data manipulation

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Ability to thrive in a team environment or work independently

• Ability to collaborate with a team through open communication and sharing of ideas in a clear and concise manner

• Adaptability to work and communicate with various business units

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Data Science, IT, Economics, Finance, Accounting

• Masters degree

• CIDA, ACDA, MCSA, Cert Internal Auditor, Cert Bank Auditor, Cert Public Accountant, Cert Internal Systems

• Professional work experience

• Accounting Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Computer Sciences or Data Analytics degree

• Machine Learning tools and techniques

About Our Company

At Ameriprise Financial, we’re not just in the business of helping clients with their financial goals – we also help our advisors and employees reach their true potential by embracing an inclusive and collaborative culture. We celebrate the unique qualities and reward the contributions of our talented, passionate employees. If you’re motivated and want to work for a strong, ethical company that cares about you and your community, take the next step with Ameriprise Financial.

Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.