The focus is on the organization's success through assessment of organization-wide risk and management controls. State Internal Auditors help agencies accomplish their objectives by using a systematic approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of an agency's risk management, control and governance processes. The emphasis of the Internal Auditor classification series is not on single-program compliance auditing. Employees in this class, under close supervision and guidance do narrow scope audits, or as a team member do portions of larger more complex audits.
Employees operate within a framework of professional standards that apply to internal auditing.
This is the first level of a three level class series. This class is the recruiting, training and development level of the series. Employees in this class assist in the planning, research and data analysis of audits, or assist in the completion of a portion of an audit. The employee learns and uses prescribed methods and applies internal auditing standards, professional practices and techniques. As training progresses the employee takes on increasing independence to complete audit projects that are small in scope.