This position may be located at any of the First Interstate Bank offices in Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
What’s Important to You
We know your career is just one aspect of a meaningful, complex, and demanding life. That’s why we designed our compensation and benefits package to provide employees and their families with as much choice as possible.
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SUMMARY
Internal Audit assists the Company in accomplishing its strategic objectives by bringing a systematic and disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the organization's governance, risk management, and internal controls. An Internal Auditor performs internal audit work for all areas of the organization to support the Company’s overall audit plan.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES include the following :
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and / or EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) in accounting, finance, management or information systems from four-year College or university or equivalent experience. Preferred 2 + years of recent public accounting, banking, or internal audit experience. Professional certifications (CPA, CIA, CBA, CISA, CFSA or CISSP) are desirable, but not required. Will require approximately 15% travel.
OTHER SKILLS
Applicant must have an understanding of financial reporting requirements, banking processes, and related laws and regulations. Strong critical thinking, fraud detection and conflict management skills are needed. Must also have a good knowledge of analytical techniques used to identify and resolve problems. Applicant must be a proficient user of basic Microsoft programs (Word, Outlook, Excel and Teams). Knowledge of bank information systems is also desirable.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret complex financial or regulatory documents. Proficiently write reports and business correspondence. Verbally present information to groups in a clear and concise manner. Capable of responding to sensitive inquiries or complaints.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
REASONING ABILITY
Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Identify and analyze risk as it pertains to the Company.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit : use hands or finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is moderate.