Blue Shield of California

Internal Auditor, Principal

Blue Shield of California  •  Oakland, CA (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

Your Role

The Internal Audit Services team performs internal audits and advisory services to provide assurance on specific internal control objectives and emerging risk areas. The Internal Audit Principal will report to the Internal Audit Senior Director. In this role, you will be leading and managing financial, operational, and integrated audits and advisory engagements. You will also be assessing the design and effectiveness of internal controls for business processes, financial reporting and measurement activities, and related applications in accordance with laws, regulations, policies, standards, and procedures using established tools and techniques.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

  • Execute the annual audit plan by independently performing audit procedures, including identifying and defining issues, developing criteria, reviewing, and analyzing evidence, and documenting management processes and procedures. Audits entail end to end process reviews, can be cross functional and complex.
  • Provide expertise in internal controls including project management, business process analysis, financial control disciplines, and information technology
  • Implement strategic goals established by Internal Audit Services leadership
  • Support Internal Audit management is the annual risk assessment process to develop the annual audit plan
  • Identify, develop, and document audit issues and recommendations using independent judgment concerning areas being reviewed
  • Prepares and delivers reports and presentations to various levels of management
  • Performs post-audit follow-up reviews to ensure management corrective action plans have been effectively implemented
  • Provides measurable input into new products, processes, standards, and/or operational plans that impact Internal Audit Services, and proactively improves upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation
  • Conducts extensive investigation and critical thinking to understand root causes of problems that span a wide range of difficult and unique issues across functions and/or businesses
  • Manages large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams. May direct the work of other individual contributors and/or act as a cross-functional team lead

Your Knowledge and Experience

  • Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Requires a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience
  • Ability to communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization
  • Extensive understanding of internal controls and the ability to leverage this knowledge to make effective audit and advisory recommendations
  • Internal audit and risk assessment practices and methodologies. IT general and automated technical controls concepts, application controls and end-user computing controls. AI and data analysis techniques preferred
  • Healthcare and pharmacy audit experience preferred
  • Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and/or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) preferred
Blue Shield of California

About Blue Shield of California

Blue Shield of California strives to create a healthcare system worthy of its family and friends that is sustainably affordable. The health plan is a tax paying, nonprofit, independent member of the Blue Shield Association with nearly 6 million members, over 7,500 employees and more than $25 billion in annual revenue.

Founded in 1939 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Oakland, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid and Medicare healthcare service plans in California. The company has contributed more than $60 million to Blue Shield of California Foundation in the last three years to have an impact on California communities.

For more news about Blue Shield of California, please visit news.blueshieldca.com.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Oakland, California
Year Founded
1939
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