Lead Internal Auditor

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

Minimum Required Experience

• 4 years of relevant experience

Desired Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• MS and/or MBA, preferred
• Educational focus on finance, accounting, and/or business administration
• Professional certification, such as CPA, CIA, CIDA, FRM, PRM, CFA, preferred
• Demonstrate an understanding of the audit process (planning, fieldwork, and reporting)
• Demonstrate an understanding of the Money Markets: Agency Securities, Treasury Bills, Repurchase Agreements, Fed Funds
• Demonstrate an understanding of Capital Market Classification, Primary Market, Secondary Market
• Demonstrate an understanding of Fixed Income Securities: Treasury Bond, Agency Bonds, Mortgage Backed Securities
• Demonstrate an understanding of the derivatives instruments (Swaps, Forwards, Futures, Options), categories (Option and forward type contracts), Exchange Traded and Over the Counter
• Demonstrate an understanding of hedging theory (hedge constructing, long vs short) and related strategies to manage risks
• Demonstrate an understanding of the Mortgage Pass Through Securities including related risks such as negative convexity, Yield Uncertainty, prepayment speed estimates
• Demonstrate an understanding of Structured Finance, such as Credit Risk Transfer, Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMO)
• Demonstrate an understanding of Risk Management (Liquidity Risk Management, Interest Rate Risk Management), Performance Reporting, Asset and Liability Management
• Demonstrate an understanding of Trading Infrastructure including but not limited to trading function, portfolio management, trade settlement

Skills

• Risk assessment and management skills including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, and remediating risk
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
• Experience gathering accurate information to explain concepts and answer critical questions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data

Tools

• Skilled in TeamMate for audit solutions
• Skilled in Excel
• Skilled in Microsoft Teams