Internal Auditor

Join our dynamic team as a financial and operational Internal Auditor, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring the integrity and efficiency of our management controls and financial information. You will independently conduct comprehensive audits, prioritize tasks, and deliver high-quality results with minimal supervision. This position offers the unique opportunity to interact with all levels of management, leveraging your expertise and independent judgment to drive compliance and excellence across the organization. This is a hybrid opportunity based in our Executive Offices in Holyoke, MA.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops and plans audit approaches for assigned projects, ensuring alignment with departmental guidelines and compliance with federal and state banking regulations.
• Conducts comprehensive financial, regulatory, and operational audits across the bank, meticulously documenting test details to support conclusions and recommendations.
• Executes annual internal control testing to ensure compliance with FDICIA.
• Collaborates with independent auditors and outsourced internal auditors as needed during audits.
• Monitors and evaluates the bank's adherence to industry regulations and internal policies through thorough record inspections and performance observations.
• Communicates effectively with all levels of management, both verbally and in writing.
• Leads exit meetings with business units to review findings, confirm action plans, and monitor compliance with recommendations.
• Drafts clear and concise audit reports that effectively communicate review results and assess the control environment.
• Participates in new project development, significant process changes, and reengineering efforts, monitoring their impact on the control environment.
• Handles ad hoc requests and special projects, including formal presentations to senior management and the Audit and Risk Committee.
• Completes annual compliance training and testing, adhering to bank, federal, and state regulations, as well as bank policies and procedures. Maintains departmental and bank-wide service standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and/or Experience:

• Business-related degree from a four-year college or university
• Minimum of 1-3 years of work experience, bank related experience preferred

Skills needed:

• Practical knowledge of processes, risks, and internal controls
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills in the English language
• Communicate potentially complex issues succinctly and effectively or negotiate areas of disagreement with operating management
• Possess strong analytical, deductive, problem solving, excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
• Certified Internal Auditor professional certification preferred

Computer Skills:

• Working knowledge of MS Excel Spreadsheet software
• MS Word Processing software

Work Environment and Physical Demands:

The working conditions and physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to sit, use hands to sort, write and keyboard, and to listen and speak. The associate is frequently required to reach, walk, stoop, crouch. The associate is occasionally required to stand, lift, bend, drive and travel.