Ready to Accelerate Your Career? Join our rapidly expanding advisory team!

Our Financial Services Internal Audit Advisory practice brings our global footprint, clients, industry expertise, and innovative solutions together to help global companies exceed their strategic objectives and needs. We have a national and global footprint with a significant portfolio of financial services clients spanning across banking, insurance, global markets, asset and wealth management, and payments. Our clients range from the largest, premier global banks, insurers, and financial institutions to super-regional and community banking clients, asset managers, and Fintech start-ups. This role specifically focuses on leaders interested in working closely with the largest banks globally across the third line of defense.

Who Makes A Highly Successful Advisor?

We are looking for team members to join our global, inclusive community of passionate financial services advisors. These diverse professionals should be highly skilled, entrepreneurial, and future-focused - they are self-starters with curiosity and a passion for continuous learning. They possess a strong growth mindset that propels themselves and others forward, driving innovation through delivery, and helping clients succeed beyond their expectations.

Your New Career Challenge

Daily, you will have the opportunity to learn and work alongside a broad mix of highly talented subject matter leaders and team members both at FORVIS and at our clients within Internal Audit. You will have an environment to explore and experience emerging, and relevant topics based on your interests and alignment to your short and long-term career goals.

As part of our growing Internal Audit Advisory team, you will work with our clients, including some of the most iconic banks globally, in Internal Audit. You will be leading teams and supporting the client across critical audits in emerging areas of risk, banking operations, and issues management and validation.

How you will Contribute

• Providing clients with expertise on internal audit topics and deep banking know-how for the 3rd line of defense globally
• Help clients with audit planning, walkthroughs, issues validations, closeouts, reporting, executive presentations, and project management
• Development and integration of AI tools and technologies and internal audit transformation
• Quality assurance
• Perform root-cause analysis around critical processes and issues remediation
• Performing Quality Assessments and providing recommendations for improvement
• Development of issues management response strategy and execution support
• Achieving and maintaining high quality in work, client relations, and team relations
• Acquiring the skills necessary to develop quality client relationships and loyalty
• Assuming the responsibility for staff work and ensuring high-quality work is delivered within established deadlines
• Serving in a leadership role on client work as technical knowledge and experience grows
• Supporting any training and mentoring to staff and interns as necessary

We Are Looking for People Who Have Forward Vision and:

• In-depth knowledge of capital markets and global banking businesses, including products, key operational processes, technology infrastructure, and regulatory landscape
• Internal audit know-how and relevant certifications
• Internal audit transformation and technology experience, including GRC platforms, data analytics and tools, and AI
• Experience includes having served in large-scale project management, having demonstrated the ability to manage multi-stakeholders, and complex projects within a very demanding business environment
• Process improvement or performance improvement experience within the business or operational support functions of large-scale banks
• Risk and regulatory understanding from an internal audit perspective
• Product knowledge across equities, derivatives, fixed income, FX, investment banking, etc.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10 years or more of experience in public accounting or global management consulting firms focused on Financial Services
• Relevant certifications (CIA, CRCM, CFA, Six Sigma Black Belt, Change Certifications, etc.)
• BA, BS, or Master's in Finance, Accounting, Business, or other similar fields
• Proficiency in MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Proficiency with GRC platforms, Alteryx, Power BI, data analysis and visualization tools
• Strong Project Management skills
• Demonstrates expertise around product knowledge in Capital Markets, Change Management, and Global Banking

Preferred Qualifications:

• Big 4 or Top 10 public accounting experience
• Strong communication and leadership skills with experience managing professional services teams and client deliverables