Job Description

This hybrid role blends audit rigor with hands-on technology to deliver higher-quality, data-driven audits. You will execute core audit procedures while building and maintaining reusable analytics and automation assets that reduce cycle time and improve control effectiveness. Embedded in audit teams, you will translate business risks into structured data workflows and deploy practical tools that scale across engagements.

What you will be working on

Pillar 1 - Audit
•    Support engagement planning and risk assessment, aligning scope and procedures with audit methodology and timelines.
•    Participate in control evaluation and substantive testing, maintaining clear, complete, and review ready documentation.
•    Coordinate information requests with clients, perform high level reconciliations, and surface issues with context and impact.
•    Contribute to analytical procedures and reporting, summarizing observations and proposed actions for stakeholder review.
•    Uphold audit quality standards, meeting documentation, independence, and confidentiality requirements.

Pillar 2 - Technology
•    Understand the audit pain points, translate them into clear tasks to solve and prioritize them with your managers/leaders.
•    Propose innovative solutions to improve efficiency within the daily audit work;
•    Facilitate adoption of audit technology within teams through guidance, troubleshooting, and feedback collection.
•    Prepare and analyze datasets to enable data driven audit procedures, leveraging approved firm tools and standard assets.
•    Produce concise visual summaries to support planning and scoping, ensuring traceability from data to insights.
•    Collaborate with transformation stakeholders to prioritize initiatives and align on common data models, standards, and ways of working.

What we look for

Education and background
•    Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a double degree (Business/Accounting + Technology), or a degree in Accounting/Finance with a demonstrable technical portfolio (e.g., GitHub/Alteryx Gallery) evidencing real artifacts.
•    Experience in external audit or data/automation work in a financial context (internships included) is a plus.
•    English required, French & German is a plus

Ways of working and communication
•    Communicates technical outcomes in business terms (risk addressed, time saved, quality uplift); produces concise runbooks and SOPs.
•    Manages time across audit cycles (busy season vs. build time), prioritizing high-impact bottlenecks and tracking backlog items to closure.
•    Fluency in English (spoken and written); French or German at a professional level is an asset for client interactions.

Tools and platforms (expected on entry or within first months)
•    Alteryx Designer, Python, SQL client, Power BI; Excel (Power Query, pivot tables, XLOOKUP); basic Git; familiarity with firm-standard analytics and workflow repositories.

Nice-to-have certifications and milestones
•    Audit/professional: CIA, CPA, ACCA, or local audit units per firm policy (e.g., IRE UVs plan); CISA for IT audit exposure.
•    Data/automation: Alteryx Designer Core (target within Year 1), Alteryx Advanced (Year 2–3), Microsoft PL 300 (Power BI) and/or DP 900/AZ 900.
•    Agile and service management: Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I); ITIL Foundation.
•    Cloud fundamentals: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ 900) or equivalent cloud vendor fundamentals.
•    Evidence of applied projects (e.g., published workflow/notebook/dashboard with documentation and audit value statement).

Role context and progression

•    Embedded in Audit for the first 0–5 years with audit-heavy responsibilities in busy season and an increasing share of transformation/enablement off-season.
•    Evaluated primarily on audit quality and delivery, with defined objectives on reusable assets, adoption, and measurable efficiency gains.
•    Progression aligned to Audit career paths, with the opportunity to grow into senior hybrid roles.