Are you ready to apply your audit, risk, and governance expertise towards Portland General Electric's exciting and sustainable future? As Oregon's largest electric utility, Portland General Electric is leading an energy transformation harnessing the power of clean and renewable resources. Our strategy is centered on three long-term imperatives: de-carbonize through investments in clean and reliable energy; electrify to capture the benefits of new technologies while building an increasingly clean, flexible, and reliable grid; and perform to improve efficiency, safety, and system and equipment reliability while maintaining affordable energy service.
To help enable this transformation, we are seeking an experienced Internal Auditor or Senior Internal Auditor to join our Internal Audit Services team. This is an opportunity to apply your financial and business knowledge and critical judgment to execute risk-driven and advisory engagements that provide visibility and value-driven results across the organization. In this role you can contribute to the future of PGE's assurance and advisory practices across a variety of emerging risks, areas of growth, operational practices, compliance requirements, SOX/financial disciplines, technology areas, and emerging activities in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting.
To be a part of our integrated Internal Audit Services team encompassing technology, safety and financial/operations specialists, we are looking for a candidate with demonstrated, exceptional verbal and written skills, risk acumen, and passion for value-added results.
PGE supports career progression, and this role will be filled at the level commensurate with the successful candidate's applicable skills and experience at either the Internal Auditor or Senior Internal Auditor levels.
We will consider a fully remote individual in the following states only: Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Key Scope and Areas of Impact:
For Senior Internal Auditor
Leads planning and fieldwork for audit and advisory engagements, data review and analysis, performing complex research, efficiently and effectively documenting work in support of reporting, coordinating and reviewing the work of others, and drives ownership of their work to meet engagement quality and timelines.
Drafts clear, concise, and progressive audit and consultation reports, making risk reduction and/or process improvement recommendations.
For Internal Auditor
Supports audit and advisory engagements by performing prescribed assignments, including interviewing clients, developing process flows, workpaper documentation, and data review and analysis.
Performs control testing according to fieldwork procedures, including completing workpaper documentation, identifying exceptions, and communicating results to team members.
For Both Levels
Supports our clients by providing regular updates on risk mitigation activities and reporting as well as communicating conclusions to clients, including difficult and complex outcomes when necessary.
Designs effective and efficient control test plans and performs control testing to enable management to assess the operating effectiveness of key controls.
Effective project management skills to monitor their own progress to ensure work is completed within agreed upon timelines.
Proactively engages with management on tracking and resolving remediations and other solutions to resolve previously identified risks through completed audit engagements.
Performs a variety of individual and department administrative tasks and implements process improvement initiatives.
Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial controls, including SOX audit planning, walkthroughs, testing, and control validations is preferred.
Knowledge and understanding of the Institute of Internal Auditor's IPPF framework for developing, conducting and reporting on assurance and advisory engagements is preferred.
What you will bring to this role:
For both the Internal Auditor and Senior Internal Auditor roles, a Bachelor's degree in finance, computer science, liberal arts or other related field or equivalent experience is required.
For a Senior Internal Auditor, five or more years in business, internal auditing, public accounting or related functions.
For an Internal Auditor, at least three years similar experience.
Professional licenses/certifications preferred and may be required within one year of obtaining position (CPA, CIA, CRMA, CFE, etc.).
Experience conducting audit engagements from planning to fieldwork through reporting - along with a basic understanding and application of project management techniques.
Skilled at interacting with a variety of technical and non-technical functions and negotiating and resolving differences around simple to complex and sometimes challenging risks.
A willingness to research and understand emerging regulatory topics that are complex or difficult to understand and incorporate them into audit processes.
Proficient use of Microsoft applications.
Data analysis tool knowledge is a plus.
Effective communication skills to foster collaboration, build relationships, and drive results through constructive discussions.
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)
Functional Competencies
Intermediate/advanced knowledge of financial, operational and/or other subspecialty auditing and consulting practices.
Intermediate/advanced knowledge of internal control over financial reporting frameworks and testing methods.
Intermediate knowledge of programs and systems used in department activities.
Intermediate knowledge of data analytic tools and techniques.
Intermediate knowledge of risk management principles.
Intermediate knowledge of PGE policies, procedures and plans.
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121 SW Salmon St
Portland
Oregon United States
www.portlandgeneral.com
