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American Campus Communities, the nation’s largest developer, owner and manager of high-quality student housing communities is seeking an Internal Audit Manager to join our Internal Audit (IA) Department. This is an opportunity for an ambitious and highly motivated individual to join a team committed to providing exceptional value to management and helping the Company achieve its mission. This highly visible role provides opportunities to work with senior management across multiple departments, as well as external auditors and IA consultants in a rewarding and challenging environment. The general scope of this position is to perform financial and operational audits, including work to support ACC as a Blackstone portfolio company.
Critical Duties:
Lead the project management and administration of the Company’s financial SOX compliance effort including but not limited to:
- Assessing risk and scoping audit plan and test procedures.
- Preparing and managing audit requests.
- Coordinating audit schedule and timeline with process owners, IA contractors, and external auditors.
- Working with business process owners to ensure SOX controls and related documentation is accurate.
- Working with external auditors to ensure testing strategy and workpapers are aligned to facilitate reliance upon IA.
- Providing direct supervision of IA staff and/or interns, including responsibility for training, coaching, and overall career development.
- Reviewing the work of IA staff, interns, and consultants to ensure all testing conclusions are adequately supported and documented within IA workpapers.
- Lead planning and execution of operational audits including property site audits, development audits, and other miscellaneous audits as assigned.
- Prepare and communicate audit findings to management, including recommendations for improvement and sharing of best practices.
Essential Duties (other duties may be assigned):
- Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with management, external auditors, and IA contractors.
- Assist the VP of Internal Audit with preparation of Blackstone requested materials.
- Assist the VP of Internal Audit with managing the IA budget through effective and efficient use of contractors.
- Perform additional tasks as assigned, including taking on additional responsibilities and participating in special projects to demonstrate the ability and desire to advance within the organization
American Campus Communities Culture Commitments
- Our people are devoted to a culture of inclusion, diversity, and equality in the workplace and our communities. We are committed to intentionally executing an evolving set of goals specific to inclusion, diversity, and accountability, driven by empathetic leadership and embraced by all.
- The core of American Campus culture involves everyone being fully invested in everything that e do down to picking up the smallest piece of trash. No matter their position or duration at any given property, everyone picks up trash because we take pride in our community.
- Serve as an American Campus representative and liaison in all interactions.
- Certain activities involved in this position may be photographed and/or video and audio recorded for quality control and/or training purposes. Compliance with the Photo, Video and Voice Recording Policy is a condition of employment.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
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 minimum knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Competencies:
- Executes effective application of audit standards within assigned responsibility.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills with ability to adapt based on audience.
- Strong analytical skills with disciplined approach to details and the ability to see the big picture.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting required.
- 8-12 years combined experience in public accounting or internal audit at a public company.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge of:
- Internal audit methodologies and US GAAP with strong emphasis on financial/operational risk.
- Advanced Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Email and Internet.
- Basic knowledge of IT general and application controls.
Skill in:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- A motivated self-starter; strong problem solver.
Ability to:
- Multi-task and plan, prioritize, and organize a diversified workload.
- Consistently meet deadlines.
- Work independently and as part of a team.
- Solve problems and recommend changes in office practices or procedures to improve efficiency.
- Travel up to 20%.
Certificates and Licenses:
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) – Required; CIA or CISA encouraged.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Physical setting:
Schedule:
Work Location: In person
