Staff auditor vs senior internal auditor

Differences between staff auditor and senior internal auditor duties and responsibilities

Staff auditor example responsibilities.

• Manage accounting operations, accounting close, account reporting and reconciliations for internal corporate and bank transactions.
• Review consolidated GAAP financial statements, inter-company eliminations and fluctuations between budget verses actual results.
• Ensure engagements are in compliance with generally accept accounting principles (GAAP) and generally accept auditing standards (GAAS).
• Conduct financial audits in accordance with GAAS to establish compliance with policies and procedures and to determine effectiveness of internal controls.
• Collaborate closely with clients by educating them on new opportunities and conduct tax research and planning; train clients on QuickBooks.
• Collaborate with the quality department in authoring ISO procedures for manufacturing engineering; key contributor on quality and ISO auditing teams.
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Senior internal auditor example responsibilities.

• Schedule, plan, conduct fieldwork and report writing of audits using a COSO base audit methodology managing staff on audits.
• Manage and coordinate annual external business evaluation in conjunction with CPA consultants.
• Conduct audit reviews, document business processes, and evaluate internal controls base on Sarbanes-Oxley good governance standards and policies.
• Execute or review Sarbanes-Oxley internal controls testing for various business processes and evaluate business systems to determine their efficiency and effectiveness
• Enhance work paper standards according to IIA framework.
• Confirm that internal controls are properly map to financial statement assertions to ensure that all COSO assertions are met.
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