Assurance and Advisory Senior Analyst

Responsibilities

• Assurance & Advisory Execution
• Act as an independent and objective assurance and consulting professional by assessing current processes and internal controls and providing recommendations that add value and improve the organization's operations.
• Apply and leverage understanding of business processes and risk and control concepts to develop risk assessments, audit programs, and testing procedures that appropriately address identified risks and project objectives.
• Participate on multiple audit and advisory projects simultaneously ensuring each engagement is conducted in an efficient and effective manner.
• Review audit evidence and demonstrate the ability to draw appropriate conclusions regarding the effectiveness of the organization's control environment.
• Lead internal controls walkthroughs/design assessment projects to identify and assess changes to the control environments. Advise leaders and process owners to ensure risks are adequately mitigated.
• Provide independent challenges on risk identification, control design, and remediation approaches across assurance and advisory engagements.
• Documentation & Quality
• Responsible for the preparation of detailed and accurate written deliverables and documentation, including audit reports (with findings, recommendations for remediation, and management responses), workpapers, narratives, control descriptions, risk & control matrices, process flowcharts.
• Perform peer reviews of workpapers to ensure that workpapers are accurate, complete, and well-documented ensuring adherence to applicable professional standards at all times.
• Technology-Enabled Controls
• Assess technology-enabled controls - including IT general controls (ITGCs), application controls, and automated controls - as part of assurance and advisory engagements impacting financial reporting.
• Partner with business and IT teams to evaluate controls embedded within financial systems and system implementations (e.g., ERP, sub-ledgers, consolidation tools).
• Support assessments related to access controls, segregation of duties (SOD), and system roles/permissions, leveraging tools such as FastPath where applicable.
• Analytics, AI & Continuous Monitoring
• Apply data analytics and/or AI techniques to identify anomalies, emerging risks, and trends across financial and operational processes.
• Support the design and maintenance of dashboards, reporting, and metrics that provide visibility into control effectiveness and program performance.
• Leverage governance and risk tools (e.g., Optro, FastPath, Blackline) to enhance automation, reporting, and data quality across assurance and advisory work.
• Use data-driven insights to enhance audit and advisory approaches, improve efficiency, and support risk-based decision-making.
• Business Partnership, Risk and Assurance Advisory
• Partner with business units and process owners to identify, assess, and communicate risks and control gaps, leveraging data-driven, fact-based analytics to support risk-based recommendations and balance the cost/benefit of remediation and control enhancements.
• Act as a trusted advisor on risk and control matters by demonstrating end-to-end process and control perspective; staying current on emerging risks, regulatory developments, and authoritative standards (e.g., SOX, COSO,

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Company Cox Enterprises Job Family Group Finance Job Profile Audit Sr Analyst Management Level Individual Contributor Flexible Work Option Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week Travel % No Work Shift Day

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