locations
Mountlake Terrace WA
time type
Full time
posted on
Posted 15 Days Ago
job requisition id
R28058
Workforce Classification:
Hybrid
Join Our Team: Do Meaningful Work and Improve People’s Lives
Our purpose, to improve customers’ lives by making healthcare work better, is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare.
To better serve our customers, we are fostering a culture that emphasizes employee growth, collaborative innovation, and inspired leadership. We are dedicated to creating an environment where employees can excel and where top talent is attracted, retained, and thrives. As a testament to these efforts, Premera has been recognized on the 2025 America’s Dream Employers list. Newsweek honored Premera as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion, and America’s Greatest Workplaces For Mental Well-Being, Forbes ranked Premera among America’s Best Midsize Employers for the fourth time.
Learn how Premera supports our members, customers and the communities that we serve through our Healthsource blog: https://healthsource.premera.com/.
As a Senior Internal Auditor, you’ll be focused on business improvement at the highest level. You’ll be the driving force behind our internal control assessments and advisory efforts, looking at processes to identify opportunities for business improvement, helping senior leaders ensure they are achieving their objectives and that the processes in place are effective in meeting those objectives. Your role will be pivotal in planning and executing a comprehensive program of audits and reviews, preparing insightful reports for management, and ensuring follow-up on findings and recommendations.
Why You’ll Love This Role:
Impactful Work: You’ll focus on improving operations and reducing costs, not just correcting deficiencies. Your extensive experience and excellent judgment will be key to achieving our goals.
Expertise Required: Familiarity with the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) control framework is essential, along with the testing and evaluation standards necessary for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, Service Organization Control (SOC), and annual financial statement audits.
Leadership Opportunities: This position involves working on projects of the greatest responsibility and complexity, offering the opportunity to potentially influence the future direction and methodologies of the department’s data analytics efforts
What you’ll do:
Drive Risk Assessment: Complete assigned components of the annual Internal Audit Risk Assessment, ensuring a thorough evaluation of potential risks and controls around core processes and company strategic objectives.
Conduct Comprehensive Audits: Perform audits, assessments, internal controls evaluations, and consulting engagements to identify risks and evaluate controls, as well as follow-up on findings requiring corrective actions.
Prepare Insightful Reports: Prepare engagement reports for management that provide clear, actionable insights and recommendations.
Collaborate with Management: Partner with management in designing and revising internal controls for new and existing business operations, products, and systems to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
Build Strong Relationships: Develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of management and employees, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment.
Lead Special Projects: Perform special projects, including assisting in regulatory audits, conducting training on audits and controls, investigating potential fraud, and other tasks as assigned.
Plan and Execute Audits: Plan the objectives and scope of audit assignments, perform fieldwork, and conduct opening and closing meetings with department heads and senior management.
Analyze Data for Business Insights: Plan and conduct analysis of applicable data sets, including from disparate sources, to create business insight and advice, using data analysis software.
Communicate Effectively: Effectively communicate audit results, both verbally and in writing, so they are persuasive, placed in the appropriate context, and understood by the recipient.
Demonstrate Technology Knowledge: Demonstrate a basic level of technology risk and controls knowledge and impact to assigned work.
Lead Audit Teams: This position may periodically lead integrated audits, supervise or train other members of the Internal Audit Team.
Improve Department Performance : Influence audit , methods, tools, procedures, and processes to be used in the department.
Continuous Learning: Identify and attend necessary training to maintain and increase business knowledge and auditing skills, and to support professional licenses.
This is a hybrid role, with some onsite days required.
What you’ll bring:
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, or Business, or four years of equivalent experience (Required).
Experience: At least three years of business experience auditing in a complex corporate audit environment. Including experience in Sarbanes-Oxley or Model Audit Rule internal controls program, and/or Service Organization Control auditing (Required).
Technical Proficiency: Functional experience with data analysis applications, such as Tableau, Microsoft BI, ACL (Galvanize), Python, or similar tools is highly preferred. Functional experience using data visualization techniques to report results and create compelling/convincing stories and messaging.
Certifications: One or more of the following professional certifications is preferred: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
Technical Skills: Familiarity with IT and security control frameworks (COBIT or ISO17799), privacy programs, cloud computing, data analytics, robotic process automation, ERP system governance, risk, and control methodologies is preferred. Experience in effectively utilizing AI capabilities to conduct audits is a significant plus.
Industry Knowledge: Experience in the healthcare or insurance industry is also preferred.
Communication Skills: Exceptional communication skills in both written and verbal forms, including previous experience in writing internal audit reports.
Analytical Skills: Strong ability to learn and evaluate business processes as well as financial controls and reporting.
Project Management: Strong skills in project management.
Premera total rewards
Our comprehensive total rewards package provides support, resources, and opportunities to help employees thrive and grow. Our total rewards are more than a collection of perks, they’re a reflection of our commitment to your health and well-being. We offer a broad array of rewards including physical, financial, emotional, and community benefits, including:
Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.
Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.
Life and disability insurance.
Retirement programs, including a 401K employer match and, believe it or not, a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.
Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs, just to name a few.
Generous paid time off to reenergize.
Looking for continuing education? We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.
For our hybrid employees, our on-campus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to on-site resources, networking opportunities, and team engagement.
Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.
Free convenient on-site parking.
Subsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable.
Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs and more.
Our complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling.
Need a brain break? Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus.
Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action:
Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
If you need an accommodation to apply online for positions at Premera, please contact Premera Human Resources via email at careers@premera.com or via phone at 425-918-4785.
The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographic location, market conditions, and specific skills and experience.
The salary range for this role is posted below; we generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range.
National Plus Salary Range:
$90,000.00 – $153,000.00
*National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska.
We’re happy to discuss compensation further during the interview because we believe that open communication leads to better outcomes for all. We’re committed to creating an environment where all employees are celebrated for their unique skills and contributions. Click Here : Apply Now