Job Description:

Company Summary: 

Crown Castle works around the country to build and maintain the infrastructure behind the world’s most revolutionary technologies. Crown Castle owns, operates and leases more than 40,000 cell towers and over 80,000 route miles of fiber supporting small cells and fiber solutions across every major US market. This nationwide portfolio of communications infrastructure connects cities and communities to essential data, technology and wireless service – bringing information, ideas and innovations to the people and businesses that need them. Crown Castle is an S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the United States with an enterprise value of approximately $87.2 billion (as of closing on June 26, 2020).

 

Position Title:  Senior Internal Auditor (5E)                   

 

Position Summary

 

Perform audit and consulting assignments requiring the application of auditing principles; including audit planning, testing, documentation, and communication of results. Position reports to an Internal Audit Manager or the Director, Internal Audit, while providing supervision to Internal Auditors.

 

Essential Job Functions

 

• Perform assignments requiring understanding and application of audit principles, practices and concepts.


• Plan financial, operational and SOX related audits and determine the extent of audit testing and audit work paper content.


• Review transactions, documents, records, reports, and procedures and prepare prescribed audit work papers that record and summarize the data resulting from the assigned audit.


• Provide consulting services to management to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Company’s processes.


• Discuss audit findings with appropriate personnel to verify facts.


• Summarize audit findings and assist in the preparation of formal audit reports.


• Assist management, to the extent allowed by professional standards, with the implementation of audit recommendations as requested.


• Upon assignment; assign, supervise, direct, counsel and instruct assistants assigned to the audit or consulting engagement.


• Perform special audit and consulting assignments.


• Assist in coordinating efforts with external auditors and/or co-source partners.

 

Education/Certifications

 

• Bachelor’s Degree


• Master’s Degree a plus, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) preferred

 

Experience/Minimum Requirements

 

• Three (3) or more years of public accounting and/or internal audit department experience


• Operational auditing and/or SOX compliance experience a plus


• Fraud investigation experience a plus


• Experience in using data analytics tools (ACL or IDEA)

 

Other Skills/Abilities

 

• Excellent communication skills


• Critical thinker


• Detail oriented and thorough


• Organized and able to meet deadlines


• Confident and able to ask questions


• Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team


• Flexibility regarding priorities and work assignments


• Ability to supervise, develop and counsel internal audit staff

 

Organizational Relationship

 

Reports to:  Manager- Internal Audit or Vice President, Internal Audit

 

Title(s) of direct reports (if applicable):  N/A

 

Working Conditions:  Works in a normal office setting with no exposure to adverse environmental conditions.  During COVID19 conditions, this role will work remotely to mitigate risk.  This position will require up to 20% travel when conditions allow.  

 

Additional Information:  N/A

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