Internal Auditor Resume Example

Assurance layout: a three-lines chevron header, audit metrics and an audit-plan table for internal auditors and audit seniors.

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Aisha Rahman

Senior Internal Auditor — Risk-Based & Data-Led Assurance (CIA, CA)
aisha.rahman@example.com+61 422 555 619Melbourne, VIC, Australialinkedin.com/in/aisharahman-ia
11Years in audit
26Audits last plan
AUD 2.1mRecovered
75 daysIssue closure

Summary

Chartered accountant and CIA with 11 years in internal audit across energy, retail and financial services. I plan and lead risk-based audits of finance, procurement, IT general controls and operations, use data analytics to test full populations instead of samples, and report to the audit and risk committee. I delivered 26 audits last plan year, cut issue-closure time from 140 to 75 days and built the team's continuous-monitoring dashboards.

Experience

Senior Internal Auditor
AGL Energy · Melbourne, VIC
Mar 2021 – Present
26Audits / year
75 daysIssue closure
100%Population testing
  • Lead risk-based audits of procurement, accounts payable, energy trading controls and ITGCs, from planning memo to audit-committee report
  • Built ACL and Power BI analytics testing 100% of 1.4 million payments for duplicates, split orders and vendor-master changes; recovered AUD 2.1m
  • Introduced agreed-action tracking with management owners; overdue actions fell from 38 to 6 and closure time from 140 to 75 days
  • Co-authored the annual risk-based audit plan and quarterly assurance map presented to the audit and risk committee
Assistant Manager, Risk Assurance
KPMG · Melbourne, VIC
Feb 2016 – Feb 2021
40+Co-sourced audits
  • Delivered outsourced and co-sourced internal audits for retailers, super funds and councils, including SOX-style controls testing
  • Reviewed payroll and fraud-control frameworks; findings led to AUD 900k of underpayment remediation
Graduate, Audit & Assurance
Deloitte · Melbourne, VIC
Feb 2015 – Jan 2016
  • Tested revenue, inventory and payroll on statutory audits of listed retail and manufacturing clients
  • Documented controls walkthroughs and prepared working papers to firm methodology

Audit plan (current year)

AuditRiskRating
Procure-to-payHighNeeds improvement
Energy trading controlsHighEffective
Access management (ITGC)MediumNeeds improvement
PayrollMediumEffective
Contractor safetyHighIn progress

Summary example

Chartered accountant and tax manager with [N] years in Big Four advisory and in-house tax for listed groups in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. I own zakat, corporate income tax, withholding tax and VAT compliance across [N] entities, run transfer-pricing policy and documentation, and prepared the group for UAE corporate tax and OECD Pillar Two. I work closely with finance, legal and the business so tax is planned into deals, not fixed after them.

Example bullet points for an Internal Auditor

  • Lead risk-based audits of procurement, accounts payable, energy trading controls and ITGCs, from planning memo to audit-committee report
  • Built ACL and Power BI analytics testing [X%] of [N] million payments for duplicates, split orders and vendor-master changes; recovered [$X]
  • Introduced agreed-action tracking with management owners; overdue actions fell from [N] to [N] and closure time from [N] to [N] days
  • Co-authored the annual risk-based audit plan and quarterly assurance map presented to the audit and risk committee
  • Delivered outsourced and co-sourced internal audits for retailers, super funds and councils, including SOX-style controls testing
  • Reviewed payroll and fraud-control frameworks; findings led to [$X] of underpayment remediation
  • Tested revenue, inventory and payroll on statutory audits of listed retail and manufacturing clients
  • Documented controls walkthroughs and prepared working papers to firm methodology

Replace the [brackets] with your own numbers and facts. Never claim results you didn't achieve.

Skills to include

  • Risk-based planning
  • ITGC & SOX testing
  • Data analytics
  • Fraud risk
  • ACL / Galvanize
  • Power BI
  • SAP
  • TeamMate+
  • SQL

Tips for an Internal Auditor resume

  1. Put the hard requirements recruiters screen for in the top third: Risk-based planning, ITGC & SOX testing, Data analytics.
  2. List current credentials with the issuing body, e.g. Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ).
  3. Give every recent role at least one measured result — for example audits / year.
  4. Match the job title in your headline to the posting where it is honest to do so.
  5. Run the built-in resume checker and paste the job description into the keyword match before you download.

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