Why Ryan?

• Global Award-Winning Culture

• Flexible Work Environment

• Generous Paid Time Off

• World-Class Benefits and Compensation

• Rapid Growth Opportunities

• Company Sponsored Two-Way Transportation

• Exponential Career Growth

Duties and responsibilities, as they align to Ryan’s Key Results

People:

• Create a positive team member experience.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop staff auditors.

Client:

• Actively support department management in building the internal audit department from the ground up.
• Assist in the development of complex audit procedures, review staff-level audit work papers, and communicate audit results to process owners, control owners, and management.
• Ensure high quality deliverables, value added recommendations and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor your own and project team’s work load, prioritize activities, and achieve deadlines.
• Build strong working relationships throughout the company and within the internal audit team, including managing relationships with various levels of management, setting expectations and meeting/exceeding expectations.
• Regularly educate direct management on governance, risks, controls, and changes in the audit requirements. 

Value:

• Execute duties as a high energy, performance-oriented and empowered team member.
• Execute against department policies and procedures, suggest improvements to department operations.
• Key contributor in developing and maintaining the Company’s Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) program.
• Develop Internal Audit/SOX project-level strategies, risk assessments, and project plans.
• Lead multiple and complex audits/projects simultaneously, including scope, resources, results, and reporting to management.
• Analytically review critical business processes, evaluating design and operational effectiveness of internal controls and identifying potential process improvement opportunities.
• Assess various risks and exposures of key business processes in the preparation of audit plans and programs.
• Create process maps of significant and complex financial, compliance and operational processes to identify potential internal control weaknesses and recommend opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare high-quality draft audit reports and present conclusions/recommendations to management.
• Oversee issue remediation follow-up to ensure issues are communicated to management and realistic action plans are in place to resolve the root cause of the issue. 
• Partner extensively with the independent auditors to ensure risk/control coverage, issue remediation, and delivery of IA work to reduce effort for process and control owners
• Stay current with business/industry changes and new accounting and auditing pronouncements and apply that knowledge within processes and control environment.
• Provides innovative solutions, business insight and guidance to improve processes, controls and/or reduce cost. 
• Other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related field.
• Minimum three years of overall related experience; at least two years with a Big 4 accounting firm preferred.
• Minimum two years of experience reviewing the work product of others.
• Significant exposure to large, public company environments preferred.
• Active Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license or candidate (parts passed) preferred; CIA or CISA certification a plus.
• Hands on, deep knowledge of, and experience with, internal controls and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements, including the 2013 COSO Internal Control Integrated Framework.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both oral and written.
• Trusted advisor and confidant with a high level of professionalism.
• Strong initiative and independent judgment.
• Flexible in a growing and evolving environment.
• Ability to work effectively across functional areas and with different levels of management.
• Passion for identifying and assessing risks, building relationships and making recommendations for process improvements.
• Proven capabilities in collaboration and producing results.
• Prior direct experience in an IPO environment a plus.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 15%

Computer Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have Workday or similar ERP system experience, and intermediate-to-advanced skills using Microsoft® Office.  Experience using audit software, such as ACL, IDEA, or TeamMate Analytics, a plus. 

Certificates and Licenses:

Active Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license or candidate (parts passed) preferred; CIA or CISA certification a plus.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Review staff employee work papers, as well as 3rd party service providers.

Work Environment:

• Standard indoor working environment.
• Occasional long periods of sitting while working at computer.
• Occasional long periods of standing while copying.
• Position requires regular interaction with employees both in person and via e-mail and telephone.
• Domestic and international travel up to 15%.

Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran