**Company Description** About us, but we'll be brief**
Experian is the world's leading global information services company, unlocking the power of data to create more opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society. We are thrilled to share that **FORTUNE has named Experian one of the 100 Best Companies to work for**. In addition, for the last five years we've been named in the **100 "World's Most Innovative Companies" by Forbes Magazine**. Experian prioritizes our culture and look to bring people to the team who are passionate about their jobs, who are easy to work with, and who continue to value team over self.
We have 23,000 people operating across 44 countries and every day we're investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximize every opportunity.
As the leading global information services company, Experian's vision is for our people, data, and technology to become a necessary part of every significant global consumer economy. That's an exciting challenge, and it's one that our Global Internal Audit (GIA) professionals are pursuing with skill and passion.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced auditor to join a truly global team that believes collaboration, flexibility, natural curiosity, and attention to detail are keys to success. Reporting directly to the Regional Audit Director, you will play a key role in delivering independent assurance over the design and effectiveness of internal controls within the business functions and influencing changes to the control environment so that risk is managed more effectively. This is a highly visible role with significant exposure to senior stakeholders and will come with plenty of stretch, development, and challenge.
**Responsibilities**:
As a Senior Auditor, you will play a key role in improving the Experian governance, risk, and control environment. This hands-on role will plan, execute, report, and follow up accordingly with collaboration from fellow team members in Global Internal Audit.
- Support on plan and scope local and global audits in collaboration with management; identify key risks and associated controls as part of the walkthrough and testing process.
- Execute key control testing and discuss any findings with management
- Identify and agree impactful issues that drive positive change in the organization.
- Support on the preparation of audit reports reflecting the results of work performed and agree the findings and proposed actions with the business owners.
- Track execution of agreed actions and assess the effective mitigation of risk.
- Provide proactive risk, control, and governance advice to business management.
- Build detailed knowledge of processes and systems across the organization
- Undertake other ad hoc, project and investigation work as required
- Work with business contacts and resources to develop broad technical and commercial business awareness
- Contribute to GIA global and local teams through professional skills, technical expertise, energy, and motivation
- Attend and facilitate team meetings and initiatives to support continuous improvement in our methodology and ways of working.
- Act as a champion for internal control and risk concepts throughout Experian
**Qualifications**
- Undergraduate or graduate degree from an accredited institution in risk management, business, technology, or information security-related fields
- 2+ years of relevant work experience in business operational audit, financial audit, technology systems audits, information security and privacy audits, or top-tier consulting organizations ("Big 4")
- Identify and evaluate business and technology risks, internal controls which mitigate risks, and related opportunities for internal control improvement
- Knowledge of industry best practices, standards, and an understanding of the regulatory environment
- Professional certifications such as CIA, CPA, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CRISC, and CGEIT are preferred
- Data analytics experience (e.g., SQL, CAATs, IDEA, ACL, Monarch, Tableau, Spotfire) preferred
- Excellent communication skills and a willingness to accept responsibility.
- Ability to work independently and proactively
- An approach that champions collaboration and consultation
**Additional Information**
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This is a permanent home-based role in Costa Rica. No relocation available._**
**Culture at Experian**
**Our uniqueness is that we truly value yours.**
Experian's culture, people, and environments are key differentiators. We take our people's agenda very seriously. We focus on what truly matters; diversity and inclusion, work/life balance, flexible work, development, engagement, collaboration, wellness, rewards & recognitions, volunteering... the list goes on!
Our benefits include: Medical, life and dental insurance, Asociacion Solidarista, International Share Save Plan, Flex Work/Work from home, Paid time off, Annual Performance Bonus, Education Reimbursement,