Auditor Resume Example (2026 Guide)
Auditor resume example
A complete sample in the Modern template FitMyRole exports. The person and employers are fictional; the structure, skills and bullet style are what to copy.
Natalie Prescott
[email protected] • (555) 016-3384 • Charlotte, NC • linkedin.com/in/natalieprescott
Professional Summary
Senior Internal Auditor and CPA with 6 years of experience in external financial audit and internal audit for banks and middle-market companies. Leads SOX 404 and operational audit engagements across a $21B regional bank, covering 140 key controls in lending, deposits, treasury and IT general controls. Brought public accounting rigor to the internal audit function, rebuilding workpaper standards in AuditBoard and raising first-pass review approval on control testing from 71% to 94%. Works with process owners early, so findings arrive with agreed root causes and remediation dates rather than surprises at the exit meeting.
Skills
- Audit & Assurance: Financial statement audit, SOX 404 and 302, internal audit, operational audit, risk assessment, audit planning, engagement management, substantive testing
- Internal Controls: COSO 2013 framework, control design and operating effectiveness testing, walkthroughs, IT general controls (ITGC), segregation of duties, deficiency evaluation
- Standards & Regulation: US GAAP, PCAOB AS 2201, AICPA GAAS, IIA Global Internal Audit Standards, FFIEC guidance, FDICIA
- Audit Technology: AuditBoard, CaseWare Working Papers, TeamMate+, IDEA, Alteryx, Excel (Power Query, pivot tables), Power BI
- Data Analytics: Full-population testing, journal entry analytics, sampling methodology, data extraction with SQL, continuous control monitoring
- Reporting & Leadership: Workpaper documentation and review, audit committee reporting, finding remediation tracking, staff coaching, stakeholder management
Education & Certification
- Completed the 150-hour CPA requirement; coursework in Advanced Auditing, Accounting Data Analytics, Federal Taxation and Financial Reporting.
Work Experience
Senior Internal AuditorMay 2024 – PresentPiedmont Ridge Financial, Charlotte, NC
- Lead 9 to 11 audit engagements a year across lending, deposit operations, treasury and ITGCs for a $21B bank holding company, delivering every report within the audit plan’s committed quarter.
- Identified $2.3M in duplicate and unapproved vendor payments by running full-population analytics in IDEA over 186,000 accounts payable transactions instead of a 60-item sample.
- Raised first-pass review approval on SOX control testing from 71% to 94% by rewriting workpaper templates in AuditBoard with clear attributes, sample rationale and tie-out steps.
- Saved an estimated 400 external audit hours a year by aligning 140 key control test procedures with the external auditor’s PCAOB AS 2201 approach so it could rely on internal testing.
- Found a segregation of duties gap in the commercial loan booking process that let one user create and approve wire templates, and agreed a system fix with operations that closed it in six weeks.
- Present quarterly audit results and open-issue aging to the Chief Audit Executive and prepare the audit committee summary for three of the department’s five audit areas.
- Coach two staff auditors on walkthroughs, deficiency evaluation and workpaper documentation, reviewing their testing before it goes to the audit manager.
Audit SeniorSeptember 2022 – April 2024Hollister Grant LLP, Charlotte, NC
- Ran fieldwork on 7 financial statement audit engagements a year for banks, credit unions and manufacturers with revenues from $40M to $600M, supervising teams of two to four associates.
- Delivered two first-year SOX 404(b) integrated audits on schedule by building the control walkthrough plan, testing ITGCs with the IT audit team and documenting 210 controls.
- Proposed $1.8M of audit adjustments on a credit union’s allowance for loan losses after testing CECL model inputs against loan-level data in Excel and Alteryx.
- Cut engagement budget overruns from 14% to 4% across a three-client portfolio by agreeing request lists with client controllers six weeks before fieldwork.
- Wrote management letter comments on control deficiencies in revenue recognition, payroll and inventory that clients adopted in the following year’s close process.
Audit AssociateSeptember 2020 – August 2022Hollister Grant LLP, Charlotte, NC
- Performed substantive and control testing on cash, receivables, fixed assets, debt and revenue for 12 engagements, documenting procedures in CaseWare Working Papers.
- Confirmed $310M of receivable and loan balances by managing third-party confirmations and alternative procedures for nonresponses.
- Built an Excel journal entry testing template that filtered entries by risk criteria, adopted by four engagement teams in the Charlotte office.
- Passed all four sections of the CPA exam in 14 months while working full time on busy-season engagements.
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Tailor my resumeWhy This Resume Works
- The summary names the audit scope in concrete terms, a $21B bank, 140 key controls and the areas covered, so a hiring manager can judge level without reading the bullets.
- The CPA license and CIA are listed as certifications with dates, and the CPA is named in the first sentence, which matters because many auditor postings filter on CPA first.
- Findings carry dollar values and method, such as "$2.3M in duplicate and unapproved vendor payments" found with full-population IDEA analytics over 186,000 transactions, instead of a vague "performed audits".
- The move from public accounting to internal audit is shown with progression (Associate, Audit Senior, Senior Internal Auditor) and with SOX, COSO and PCAOB AS 2201 named where the work was done.
- Workpaper quality is measured, first-pass review approval from 71% to 94%, which is the metric an audit manager actually cares about when hiring a senior.
Common Resume Mistakes
- No engagement or finding metrics.
- Missing SOX or control keywords.
- Vague "performed audit" without type or scope.
Keywords Recruiters Look For
- Audit
- SOX
- Controls
- CPA
- Financial audit
- Testing
- Workpapers
- Engagement
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