Assistant Vice President, Healthcare Audit - Emory Internal Audit

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Description:

Reporting to the Associate Vice President and Chief Audit Officer, directs and coordinates the Emory Healthcare (EHC) internal audit program, in accordance with the enterprise risk-based audit plan. This includes a broad and complex portfolio of entities, including hospitals, clinics and related facilities.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

Supports meetings of the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Board of Trustees. Supports entity-wide initiatives including, but not limited to, the financial attestation process, enterprise system upgrades, SACCs accreditation, and human capital management initiatives.

 

Role is essential to ensuring the integrity, effectiveness, and compliance of internal controls across Emory Healthcare operations, supporting the organization’s ability to:

• Navigate increasingly complex regulatory requirements
• Detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse
• Manage heightened enterprise and operational risks
• Protect patient safety, accreditation, and organizational reputation
• Maintains effective liaison relationship with the external auditors to facilitate the audit of entity records. Identifies key risks to the organization, and researches areas of exposure.
• Participates in the development of and manages a risk-based annual audit plan that includes various business units, processes, and risks.
• Manages resource allocations and prioritizations between significant audit plan projects, management requests, and investigations.
• Ensures audits and reports are structured and conform to established methodology and quality expectations.
• Incorporates the use of data analytics to enhance risk identification, quantification and testing/project support and to provide valuable business intelligence to management.
• Actively participates on a variety of Emory committees and project teams.
• Regularly engages management in discussions on emerging risks, processes, and controls.
• Provides expert consultative advice and assistance to business units and critical enterprise-level operations.
• Assists in training and educating management on effective internal controls that safeguard organizational asset, and tools to effectively mitigate risk/exposure.
• Assures that both fundamental and sophisticated audit practices are incorporated into the design and execution of critical business and monitoring processes.
• Works with management to promote awareness of policies, best practices, and reporting of fraud or other areas of non-compliance.
• Supervises healthcare audit staff. Coordinates closely with the Assistant VP for University and Research Audit and Director for IT Audit to ensure comprehensive execution of annual risk-based audit plan.
• Leads efforts to improve internal audit division practices and achieve division goals and objectives.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• A master's degree in business, accounting, finance, or related field and 10 years of relevant experience.
• Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, or other relevant professional certification is required.
• Healthcare audit experience strongly preferred.
• Previous managerial or supervisory experience preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

NOTE: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University on a flexible weekly schedule based upon business needs.  Schedule is based on agreed upon guidelines of department. This role requires residency in the state of GA. Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee.

 

 

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Additional Details:

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