Internal Audit Rotational Program (Data Analytics)

You have a unique opportunity to jumpstart your career through hands-on, impactful projects, comprehensive training and development, and exposure to executive leadership, paving the way for a robust career at Citizens.

The Internal Audit Rotational Program is a critical program in the Internal Audit department for cultivating talented, young professionals who aspire to be future leaders. As part of this program, you’ll accelerate the development of foundational audit skills through a combination of classes, self-study, on-the-job training, and rotations through audit teams focused on key risks across Citizens. Through exposure to key Citizens business divisions, you will graduate from the program with a strong understanding of audit principles and be well-positioned to have a successful career in the financial services industry.

This particular role is for placement on the Internal Audit Data Analytics and Innovation team. The team supports Internal Audit and Credit Review in sourcing data from a variety of technologies, joining, analyzing and in some cases automating standard requests to support risk and control testing. The team also conducts code reviews to help the auditors understand how code is used in the business lines. If you are looking for an opportunity to explore a variety of data platforms and are motivated and driven to learn new methods and techniques of delivering success, look no further. 

The Internal Audit team is made up of over 100 highly-skilled professionals with the mission of providing the Board, Audit Committee, Shareholders, and Executive Management with an independent and objective view of the effectiveness of the bank’s control environment, risk management practices, and culture. Internal Audit provides independent assurance on the appropriateness of the design and operational effectiveness of risk management and internal control processes that mitigate the bank’s key risks, provides advice to improve the organization’s governance and risk management framework, and assesses the appropriateness, effectiveness, and sustainability of action plans developed by bank management to improve controls. Internal Audit carries out its duties freely and objectively, in line with Institute of Internal Auditors and Examiner standards.

In this 12-month program, you will have the opportunity to gain a strong understanding of the Internal Audit function and Data Analytics at Citizens as well as great insight into the inner workings of a large financial institution. You’ll begin by completing a robust onboarding and training over your first few weeks which will include classes concentrating in internal audit, bank operations, information technology, and regulatory risk management. During this time, we will match you with a mentor who will help guide you through the duration of the program.

Then, you’ll continue to gain relevant experience by shadowing an experienced programmer handling a variety of data analytics request. The requests are to support Internal Audit testwork and can include datasets across the organization, including Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking, Risk Management/Compliance, Finance/Accounting, and Information Technology. A key initiative for the Data Analytics and Innovation team is to identify opportunities to develop programs to automate testwork, leveraging new technologies. During your time as an Associate, you could be

As an Internal Audit Associate, you will be enrolled in the full-time program and responsible for successfully completing all aspects of the program including:

As an Associate in this program, you’ll also participate in the bank’s Early Career Development Programming (ECDP) starting in June 2023. The ECDP is a robust, four-month program designed to give our new early career colleagues a strong foundation of Citizens. Through the ECDP, you’ll experience:

Upon successful completion of the Program, graduates will be placed on the Internal Audit Data Analytics and Innovation team as an Analyst. An Analyst is typically responsible for delivering data analytics requests which support executing test work in business lines across Citizens to validate the adequacy, effectiveness, and sustainability of internal controls.  

Further, you’ll continue to have access to a growing community of Citizens development program alums that will prove invaluable throughout your career journey! You may also have the opportunity to partner closely with the Program Management team on recruiting-related activities as well as future program planning and design.

We’re looking for self-starters, team players, and strategic thinkers with an interest in programming and analytics.

To be successful in this program, you’ll need to display strong skills and characteristics, including analytical and critical thinking, communication, data analysis, detail-oriented, initiative, interpersonal, leadership, learning agility, project management, relationship building, strategic mindset, and time management. We want to find someone who has had some exposure to Python (programming language, not the big snake); we will also provide training to help advance your Python skills along with other tools/languages, including SQL, SAS, ACL, Alteryx, Tableau, Visual Basic (.NET), and HTML.