Senior Internal Auditor

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

Senior Internal Auditor

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

Are you ready to apply your audit, risk, and governance expertise towards PGE’s exciting and sustainable future? To help enable this transformation, we are seeking an experienced Senior Internal Auditor to join our Internal Audit Services team. This is an opportunity to apply your financial and business knowledge and critical judgment to execute risk-driven and advisory engagements that provide visibility and value-driven results across the organization. In this role you can contribute to the future of PGE’s assurance and advisory practices across a variety of emerging risks, areas of growth, operational practices, compliance requirements, SOX/financial disciplines, and technology areas.

To be a part of our integrated Internal Audit Services team encompassing technology, safety and financial/operations specialists, we are looking for a candidate with demonstrated, exceptional verbal and written skills, risk acumen, and passion for value-added results.

Key Scope and Areas of Impact: 

• Leads planning and fieldwork for assurance and advisory engagements, data review and analysis, performing complex research, efficiently and effectively documenting work in support of reporting, coordinating and reviewing the work of others, and drives ownership of their work to meet engagement quality and timelines.

• Drafts clear, concise, and progressive audit and consultation reports, making risk reduction and/or process improvement recommendations.

• Supports our clients by providing regular updates on risk mitigation activities and reporting as well as communicating conclusions to clients, including difficult and complex outcomes when necessary. 

• Designs effective and efficient control test plans and performs control testing to enable management to assess the operating effectiveness of key controls.

• Effective project management skills to monitor their own progress to ensure work is completed within agreed upon timelines.

• Proactively engages with management on tracking and resolving remediations and other solutions to resolve previously identified risks through completed audit engagements.

• Performs a variety of individual and department administrative tasks and implements process improvement initiatives.

• Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial controls, including SOX audit planning, walkthroughs, testing, and control validations is preferred.

• Knowledge and understanding of the Institute of Internal Auditors’ Global Internal Audit Standards for planning, performing, and reporting on assurance and advisory engagements is preferred. 

What you will bring to this role: 

• A Bachelor’s degree in finance, computer science, liberal arts or other related field or equivalent experience is required. 

• Typically five or more years in business, internal auditing, public accounting or related functions. 

• Professional licenses/certifications preferred and may be required within one year of obtaining position (CPA, CIA, CRMA, CFE, CISA, etc.). 

• Experience conducting audit engagements from planning, to fieldwork through reporting – along with a basic understanding and application of project management techniques.

• Skilled at interacting with a variety of technical and non-technical functions and negotiating and resolving differences around simple to complex and sometimes challenging risks.

• A willingness to research and understand emerging regulatory topics that are complex or difficult to understand and incorporate them into audit processes.

• Proficient use of Microsoft applications. Data analysis tool knowledge is a plus.

• Effective communication skills to foster collaboration, build relationships, and drive results through constructive discussions.

COMPETENCIES (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES)

Functional Competencies

• Intermediate/advanced knowledge of financial, operational and/or other subspecialty auditing and consulting practices.

• Intermediate/advanced knowledge of internal control over financial reporting frameworks and testing methods.

• Intermediate knowledge of programs and systems used in department activities.

• Intermediate knowledge of data analytic tools and techniques.

• Intermediate knowledge of risk management principles.

• Intermediate knowledge of PGE policies, procedures and plans.

General Competencies

• Intermediate organization and prioritization skills.

• Intermediate written communication skills.

• Intermediate oral communication skills.

• Intermediate business acumen.

• Intermediate skills in project management.

• Advanced interpersonal skills

PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE DEMANDS AND SCHEDULE/ATTENDANCE

Cognitive Demands

• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks

• Ability to follow accuracy standards

• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks

• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment

• Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress

• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change

• Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback

• Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement

• Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks

• Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization

• Demonstrates sound memory

• Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks

Schedule/Attendance

• Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance [for part-time positions, change to part-time attendance]

• Does the job require a valid driver's license?  - No

• Driving/travel/commute

• Travel within service territory

• Occasionally (one to two times a month or less)

• Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)

Environment

• Office environment – Hybrid – 3 days in office

Compensation Range:

Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity. While we anticipate the selected candidate for this position will fall towards the middle or entry point of the compensation range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.

PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here.

Join us today and power your potential!

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PGE is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where employees feel connected, valued, and empowered to thrive. PGE will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

PGE does not discriminate on the basis of disability. We recognize individuals have a variety of abilities to offer and we believe there is much to value and celebrate by incorporating different abilities into the work we do. One very important way we live this out is in our application and interview process. We work hard to support individuals who may need an accommodation to fully participate in these processes. If you feel you may need an accommodation, or would like to request one, please notify the Recruiter associated with the job posting. You may also make this request by contacting [email protected] or by calling 503-464-7250. The Recruiter will provide information and next steps for the accommodation process. 

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