Lead Analyst, Internal Audit

Job Description

Lead Analyst, Internal Audit | AES Corporation

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at AES Corporation, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. AES is a leading global power company, shaping the future of energy through renewable solutions and providing electricity for millions worldwide. This role is crucial for ensuring the company’s integrity, transparency, and responsible business practices by upholding robust internal controls and SOX compliance.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

• Mission: To conduct and support internal audits, ensure SOX compliance, and identify control deficiencies to maintain financial and operational integrity.
• Tech Stack: SAP, Power BI, AI-enabled techniques

What You’ll Actually Do
• Audit Conduct: Conduct internal audits, testing, and review of Control Self-Assessment / SOX compliance, then report findings to management.
• Audit Planning: Conduct financial and operational internal audits, including planning, scope definition, program development, and identification of key risks and controls.
• Documentation & Testing: Prepare and maintain audit documentation, perform and document tests of internal controls, evaluating design and operating effectiveness.
• Data Analysis: Analyze audit evidence using enterprise system data and analytics tools to support population-based testing and data-driven audit conclusions.
• Reporting & Coordination: Develop audit reports, communicate findings and recommendations to management, and coordinate audit activities with internal and external auditors.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Accounting, Management, or a related field, with a focus on internal or external auditing in accounting and finance.
• Experience: 4 years of progressively responsible experience in internal or external auditing focused on accounting and finance. This experience must include 4 years in Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX Section 404) testing and compliance, 4 years in performance of U.S. GAAP-based analytical procedures, 4 years in extraction, transformation, and reconciliation of complex financial and operational data from SAP systems for population-based audit testing, 4 years of audit experience in the energy industry, and 4 years in design and development of advanced Power BI data models and audit analytics to support continuous control monitoring, with at least 2 years of that applying AI-enabled techniques to detect anomalies and control failures across large enterprise data sets.
• Skills: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX Section 404) compliance; U.S. GAAP-based analytical procedures; SAP data extraction and analysis; Power BI data modeling and audit analytics; Advanced data analytics, including AI-enabled techniques.