Are you an auditor or other business professional who wants to be a part of a high-performing team that strives to improve the company’s performance through assurance and advisory services designed to evaluate the company’s risk management, operations, and governance functions? Do you love working across geographies and business cultures to share best practices and advocate effective risk management and process excellence? If you want to make a difference and love a challenge, this is the position for you.

The ideal candidate for this job is a self-starter who excels at learning new processes and business functions, and is able to critically analyze controls systems to assess effectiveness, opportunities for improvements, and efficiency gains. The candidate is comfortable dealing with ambiguity and has strong problem solving and collaboration skills. This position involves a significant amount of exposure to senior management and requires the ability to communicate complex issues and recommendations, and the conviction to support them.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Develop detailed test plans for key segments of audits by developing understanding of audit area and reviewing available data and information.
• Conduct audit fieldwork using appropriate auditing methods.
• Draft audit issues based on fieldwork, supporting evidence, and risk-based implication.
• Clearly communicate project status and results with project team, IA management, and stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
• Remain current and increase knowledge in the areas of auditing, accounting, business, company products and company information utilizing self-study and continuing education efforts.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years of demonstrated work experience in a related field.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively present recommendations to senior management.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally for 2-3 week periods, up to 30% total.

Additional/Preferred qualifications:

• A BS/BA degree in a related field.
• Professional certifications including CPA, Chartered Accountant, CIA, or CISA.
• Specialized audit skills or industry experience such as fraud, privacy, manufacturing, online services, or software.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.