Senior Internal Auditor - Banking and Trust

Want a meaningful career where you can make a difference? Edward Jones sounds perfect for you.

Collaboration. Autonomy. Opportunity. Words our headquarters associates use when talking about working at Edward Jones. Words that describe what it's like being part of a firm where everyone is aligned toward a singular focus: serving the client. And everyone is working to make the firm better together - as they grow as individuals. If these words resonate with you, we should talk. **

Job Overview**

Position Schedule: Full-Time

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 audits and consulting projects timely for our baking and trust company divisions. 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.
• Provide insights and expertise around the nuances of banking, trust, and fiduciary audits.

Benefits

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:

Hiring Minimum: $81750

Hiring Maximum: $139194 **

Skills/Requirements**

What Experience You Need:

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field.
• 3 or more years of public accounting and/or Internal Audit experience.
• Subject matter expertise in banking, trust, or fiduciary industries.
• 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

• 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.

Awards & Accolades

At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.

Check out our U.S. awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones

Check out our Canadian awards and accolades: Insights & Information Blog Postings about Edward Jones **

About Us**

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 8 million clients and 19,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

View our Purpose, Inclusion and Citizenship Report.

1Fortune 500, published June 2023, data as of December 2022. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

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.