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Professional - Non-Clinical
Senior Auditor - The Health Plan
Houston, TX, US
We’re looking for a Senior Auditor, someone who’s ready to grow with our company. In this position you will design and conduct independent, objective assurance and consulting activities using leading practice standards designed to add value and improve the operations. Implement a systematic, risk based, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes and to provide organizational leadership with transparency to key risks. Expectation to own quality of their own work and work of staff auditors for whom this position is responsible for reviewing.
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Job Duties & Responsibilities
• Engages in risk assessment and other Departmental planning activities.
• Assists Audit Services Leadership in activities related to Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and the development of annual audit plans.
• Develops project-based risk assessment(s) to determine the scope of a given project and to identify the key operational, fraud-specific, and IT risk and control relationships for validation.
• Identifies risks outside the scope of assigned audits and other projects, documents the risks, and communicates risks to Audit Services leadership.
• Assists Audit Services Leadership in the creation and maintenance of budget tracking tools, dashboards, and key metrics. Can report on budget to actual on a project-by-project basis.
• Identifies and evaluates potential projects to improve management of risks, add value, and improve the organization's operations.
• Independently plans, conducts, and manages operational, financial and compliance audits, investigations, and other projects in accordance with professional auditing standards and departmental policies and procedures.
• Communicates audit information such as results and conclusions in accordance with professional auditing standards and departmental policies and procedures.
• Creates collaborative positive working relationships with Audit Services staff, clients and other staff, and external parties.
Skills & Requirements
• Required bachelor's degree in a business-related field
• Preferred Licenses/Certifications
o CPA - Cert-Cert Public Accountant If a candidate holds and maintains an active CPA license from another state, s/he should get certified in the State of Texas within 6 months of hire.
o CERT-CIA - Cert-Cert Internal Auditor by the Institute of Internal Auditors
o LSSC - Lean Six Sigma Certification by the Six Sigma Institute
• Required 5 years progressive experience in an audit and/or accounting environment, including specific experience in performing audit assignments in a lead role and preferred experience in auditing within the healthcare industry
• A master's degree in a business or finance related field may substitute for two (2) years of the experience requirement.
Hybrid position: this role will require the employee to be onsite several days a week. This is not a fully remote capable position
About Texas Children’s
Founded in 1996, Texas Children’s Health Plan is the nation's first health maintenance organization (HMO) created just for children. We provide STAR/Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to pregnant women, teens, children and adults in Houston and surrounding areas. Currently, the Health Plan has more than 375,000 members who receive care from our network of more than 1,100 primary care physicians, 3,200 specialists, and 70 hospitals. Texas Children's Health Plan is also the largest combined STAR/CHIP Managed Care Organization in the Harris County service area.
To join our community of 14,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities. You can also learn more about our amazing culture at infinitepassion.org.
Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.
