Verizon Communications Inc. is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. A Dow 30 company, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of more than 194,000 and last year generated consolidated revenues of $106.6 billion.  The IT Auditor – Business Analysis will be part of an objective assurance and consulting team that is independently managed within Verizon Communications designed to add value and improve operations. The Internal Audit team assists the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors and Verizon management in accomplishing their objectives by bringing a systematic and disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the overall control environment, risk management, and governance processes. The Internal Audit staff gains extensive exposure to diverse aspects of Verizon's business. These audit assignments include increasing levels of responsibilities and presentations to senior management, making Internal Audit an excellent place to work for high potential employees.

Job Responsibilities:

The IT Auditor – Business Analysis supports a high performance forensic reporting team in its efforts to identify and drive compliance efforts through a risk based approach. Mitigate fraud, misconduct and control gaps utilizing data mining and analysis.  Responsibilities include the following:

• Design and automate reporting for business channel risk metrics utilizing enterprise data warehouse and data mining tools; coordinate with business for outside data source requirements.
• Design, develop, maintain and communicate risk model dashboards.
• Design and develop standard and ad-hoc reporting based on business requirement needs.
• Extract, normalize, analyze, review and report with respect to data efforts.
• Identify and use appropriate investigative and analytical technologies to interpret and verify results.
• Coordinate with business to ensure follow-up and resolution of exceptions including specific individual resolution as well as root-cause analysis and control gap identification.
• Maintain databases and related programs in a thorough and efficient manner.
• Take part in training courses to increase skill set and technical capabilities in order to better serve the database needs of the analytics team.

Required Skills & Experience:

• BS/BA degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Accounting, Business, Finance or equivalent work experience..At least a 3.0/4.0 overall GPA or equivalent (First consideration will be given to those candidates that hold a college degree)
• Requires a minimum of 3 years related work experience; knowledge of auditing, accounting, finance, economics a plus.
• Strong business analytical skills a must; ability to apply business logic to design and implement risk models and standard reporting, as well as ad-hoc reporting requests.
• Ability to interpret business requests as well as communicate findings in a user-friendly manner.
• Experience designing, developing, implementing and maintaining databases and programs to manage data analysis efforts.
• Experience in normalizing data to ensure it is homogeneous and consistently formatted to enable sorting, query and analysis.
• Experience in using and managing forensic technologies, including data analysis tools.
• A strong understanding of risk management methodology and factors.
• Highly proficient in one of the following:  ACL, IDEA, SQL, Excel or Access.
• Strong Data Warehouse skills are a must.