Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is a company that has been protecting families and their belongings for over 90 years. The Senior Internal Audit Consultant will lead risk-based audits across various operations, utilizing data analytics and AI tools to enhance audit quality and mentor junior auditors.
Responsibilities
- Lead assigned workstreams and moderately complex audit segments from scoping and planning through testing, issue development, and reporting, with leadership oversight
- Lead or contribute to scoping discussions, develop risk hypotheses, and help draft business stories or acceptance criteria for moderately complex audits and selected complex audit areas
- Perform or oversee walkthroughs with business and technology stakeholders to identify controls, process risks, automated processes or controls, and opportunities for improvement
- Apply audit procedures to complex business and technology controls with minimal guidance and evaluate results using fact-based conclusions
- Develop and refine control testing procedures that align to the acceptance criteria, business story, risk hypotheses, and audit scope
- Identify and evaluate alternative testing evidence and other relevant information (including data-driven sources) to support appropriate testing conclusions
- Draft, refine, and communicate audit observations and recommendations that clearly describe the issue, risk, impact, and supporting evidence, and present results to clients with oversight some audit leadership
- Use data analysis, automation, and generative AI tools to improve testing precision, increase efficiency, summarize results, and support issue development and insight generation
- Mentor junior staff on testing execution, documentation quality, stakeholder interaction, effective use of data/analytics tools, and agile ways of working, and help drive sprint progress and issue follow-up
Skills
- Lead assigned workstreams and moderately complex audit segments from scoping and planning through testing, issue development, and reporting, with leadership oversight
- Lead or contribute to scoping discussions, develop risk hypotheses, and help draft business stories or acceptance criteria for moderately complex audits and selected complex audit areas
- Perform or oversee walkthroughs with business and technology stakeholders to identify controls, process risks, automated processes or controls, and opportunities for improvement
- Apply audit procedures to complex business and technology controls with minimal guidance and evaluate results using fact-based conclusions
- Develop and refine control testing procedures that align to the acceptance criteria, business story, risk hypotheses, and audit scope
- Identify and evaluate alternative testing evidence and other relevant information (including data-driven sources) to support appropriate testing conclusions
- Draft, refine, and communicate audit observations and recommendations that clearly describe the issue, risk, impact, and supporting evidence, and present results to clients with oversight some audit leadership
- Use data analysis, automation, and generative AI tools to improve testing precision, increase efficiency, summarize results, and support issue development and insight generation
- Mentor junior staff on testing execution, documentation quality, stakeholder interaction, effective use of data/analytics tools, and agile ways of working, and help drive sprint progress and issue follow-up
- Proficiency in using data analytics tools and programming languages such as Python, SQL, Power BI, or similar technologies to perform data extraction, analysis, visualization, and risk-focused testing
- Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, to enhance audit planning, testing, reporting, research, and operational efficiency while maintaining appropriate governance and quality standards
- Knowledge of AI governance, responsible AI, and model risk management principles, including fairness, accountability, transparency, explainability, data privacy, and regulatory considerations
- Familiarity with evaluating risks and controls associated with AI-enabled technologies, automated decision-making processes, and emerging technology implementations
- Experience with one or more AI and data platforms (e.g., Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, AWS SageMaker, Google BigQuery, Google Vertex AI, or similar technologies) is preferred
Benefits
- Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
- Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
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