Senior Internal Auditor

Saint Louis, MO Full Time
POSTED ON 12/6/2023
At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 15,000 branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.
The Internal Audit division partners to provide vital insights, identifies risk and reviews processes, systems, and technology. Immersed in all aspects of our business, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and experience for career growth. As part of this dynamic team, you’ll drive business outcomes in alignment with the firm’s priorities. From assessing internal controls to leading key cross-divisional projects, your work will be critical in today’s prevailing corporate environment.
Developing leaders of tomorrow while helping reduce risks for a Fortune 500 company is what we do in Edward Jones Internal Audit. Yes, we have a process to evaluate risks but what sets us apart is not just auditing individual departments, we strive to ensure risks for our clients and 18,000 Financial Advisors are minimized.
The travel is minimal, work-life balance is a priority, and our spirit of partnership inspires our culture. Our division is one team, and we value different backgrounds and perspectives as we collectively focus on making a difference in the lives of our clients.

As a Senior Internal Auditor, you will be responsible for performing financial and operational audits and consulting projects timely throughout all divisions of the firm. Audit work entails scoping the audit based on assessment of risk, gaining an understanding of processes (both automated and manual), identifying controls in place to mitigate risk and testing those controls to confirm they are functioning as designed.
  • Provide status updates to all levels of leadership for the audit area and within Internal Audit
  • Communicate observations timely and effectively by assessing risks and impacts.
  • Responsible for creating, writing, and presenting final audit reports.
  • Mentor newly hired and staff level audit associates.
  • When partnering with other auditors, the Senior will delegate work, provide guidance and coaching, and review work in order to provide feedback.
What Experience You Need:
  • Bachelor's degree in business or related field.
  • 3 or more years of public accounting and/or Internal Audit experience.
  • Demonstrable understanding of audit terminology, practices and documentation standards is required.
  • Experience evaluating risk to scope audit work, identifying controls and developing effective tests for those controls, and analyzing control design and effectiveness and evaluating findings.
What Could Set You Apart:
  • Background in banking, trust, or fiduciary industries.
  • Holding a CPA or a CIA.
  • Graduate degree in accounting or finance.
  • Understanding of GAAP, experience utilizing IDEA, ACL or other similar tools to perform audit work, flowcharting and writing and presenting audit reports preferred.
Candidates that live within in a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office three days per week, with preference for Tuesday through Thursday.
  • 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials in 2022, published Fortune July 2022, Great Places to Work® data as of March 2022. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
    • Edward Jones was recognized as one of the Best Workplaces for Millennials by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine. The privately held firm ranked No. 2 overall, in its fourth appearance on the list.
  • 2022 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women, published September 2022, research by Great Places to Work®, data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
    • Edward Jones has been named to the 2022 Best Workplaces for Women list by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine, ranking No. 45.
  • 2022 Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, published April 2022, research by Great Place to Work®, data as of August 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
    • For the 23rd time, Edward Jones has earned a spot on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® ranking by Great Places to Work® and Fortune® magazine. Edward Jones ranked No. 35 on the prestigious 2022 list.
    • 2022 Best Places to Work For LGBTQ Equality, Great Place to Work® in partnership with Human Rights Campaign Foundation, published Equity Magazine January 2022, data as of July 2021. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.
      • Edward Jones scored 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality. The ranking designated Jones as one of the best places to work for LGBTQ Equality.
Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
At Edward Jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being. Visit our career site to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharing. The salary range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential new associate:

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