Manager, Audit

The ultimate source for official answers about a business online should be the business itself. However, when consumers ask questions on company websites, too often they are left in the dark with wrong answers. Yext (NYSE: YEXT), the Search Experience Cloud, solves this problem by organizing a business's facts so it can provide official answers to consumer questions — wherever people search. Starting with the company website, then extending across search engines and voice assistants, businesses around the world, like Taco Bell, Marriott, and Jaguar Land Rover—as well as organizations like the U.S. State Department—trust Yext to radically improve the search experience on their websites and across the entire search ecosystem.

The Yext Internal Audit team is a dynamic and growing team. This creative and collaborative role will work with audit and business leaders to perform audits and other projects.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience identifying and addressing financial, operational, information technology, and compliance risks in business and technology processes, evaluating the design of internal controls, and executing audits to assess the effectiveness of processes and controls. In addition, the candidate will have the skills necessary to be effective in agile, navigate a fast-moving and complicated environment, and to influence people in a fast-growing international company.

What You'll Do

• Daily management internal audits and projects
• Ensure audits are performed in a timely manner, with high quality work product and in line with the Audit Methodology and Professional Standards
• Strong written and oral communication skill
• Creation of audit work guides to structure the audit process
• Educate the workforce on risk, process, controls and emerging issues and auditing standards
• Identify and evaluate risks in financial reporting and business processes
• Assist management in action plan development
• Support the preparation of reports and presentations for management, executive management and Audit committee
• Monitor management remediation activities and ensuring timely completion
• Support the design, conceptualization and implementation of Governance, Risk and Control (GRC) tool
• Work on other ad hoc consulting, assurance and compliance projects
• Assist the annual enterprise risk management process and engage with various leadership level team members to identify and explore key strategic, operational and regulatory risks impacting the organization
• Problem solving skills that demonstrate critical and logical thinking to reach a solution.
• Analytical skills with high attention to detail.

What You'll Have

• 5-8 experience in internal/external audit or business consulting
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business related field
• Understanding of: US GAAP; SEC reporting requirements; Sarbanes Oxley Act and PCAOB Auditing Standards, COSO Framework

Bonus Points

• CIA or CPA
• Experience with SOX compliance efforts or as part of external, integrated audits
• Embraces the challenge of evaluating process and controls in a fast paced control environment
• Results oriented leader who has the ability to manage, influence and drive strategic solution development across diverse teams.
• Experience in project management practices, tooling, and managing projects through the audit lifecycle.

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The base salary at the time of hire for this position is expected to be between $108,000-$169,000. Pay ranges at Yext are established based on an analysis of salaries for positions with a similar level of accountability and impact in the relevant labor market. Salary levels are expected to change to reflect an employee's job performance (results and impact) over time. Salaries at the time of hire are typically offered in the lower to middle of the above-referenced range in order to provide the opportunity to reflect performance-based increases over time. In addition to base salaries, employees at Yext are typically eligible for a comprehensive package of benefits, and successful candidates may also be eligible for equity (stock) based compensation and/or variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets.