Project Manager, Assurance

CO Salary Range: USD 75,200.00 - 110,400.00 per year

Posting Date
05/06/2025

2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of America

The Audit Project Manager oversees projects that address risk within financial and operational processes across the DaVita enterprise. Oversight includes:

• Effectively managing team's overall project scope and activities through the three primary project phases of planning, fieldwork and reporting. Standard engagement project types include:
  • Assurance Engagement - Testing design and effectiveness of processes / internal controls in accordance with IIA (Institute for Internal Auditors) standards to inform the Audit Committee and Management on effectiveness of processes / controls.
  • Advisory Engagement - Providing support and recommendations to Management in updating processes / controls to better address risk or become more efficient in doing so.
  • Other Project Engagement - Includes direct assistance to external audit firm as well as other departments. Scope of responsibilities varies per project.
• Proactively identify roadblocks or conflicts within engagement or partner (s) and resolves independently to ensure adherence to timelines.
• Ensures quality of work products produced throughout the engagement.
• The Audit Project Manager also develops and mentors those they oversee on an engagement.

• Assigning roles and responsibilities for team members based on skillsets and developmental areas. Performing or delegating work to be performed during each phase.
• Establishing working relationship with business partners to facilitate engagement discussions and alleviate delays that may occur with meeting or documentation requests to the business.
• Setting engagement objectives, scope and timelines after review of interviews and research conducted.
• Providing updates to team and ERS leadership through written updates within electronic workpaper system and verbally on status update meetings.
• Reviewing work completed by Staff or Seniors, providing coaching notes to correct errors or omissions in work reviewed.
• Leading entrance conferences to communicate objectives, scope and timelines and informing business partners on preliminary findings through PowerPoint presentations, video conferencing or in-person communications.
• Drafting final engagement report to ensure accuracy and alignment with work performed, evaluating risk of any identified findings, assessing the overall
• potential impact to the Village and providing recommendations to business partners.
• Working with business partners to obtain management action plans to address observations in the report, overseeing implementation and follow-up testing to validate completion by the business.

• Providing project performance reviews.
• Providing ongoing coaching and feedback to project team members.
• Coordination of project team capacity and workload.

• Oversight and direction of team initiatives / objectives including committees covering topics such as event planning, special projects to develop future processes, performing quality assurance reviews of completed projects, supporting internal software and others initiatives.
• Interviewing potential candidates and overseeing onboarding of new teammates.

• 4 to 6 years in assurance, internal audit, or consulting
• Bachelor's degree in relevant field

• Proficient in MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint, experience with TeamMate+ is a plus
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills with ability to probe, question, and listen attentively and to communicate effectively throughout all levels of the organization
• Inquisitive and self-starter with a high degree of initiative, urgency, attention to detail, and follow through
• Critical thinker with demonstrated ability to perform root cause analysis, draw conclusions, solve problems, prepare and implement action plans, and lead improvement initiatives

• Experience with leading and overseeing remote teams and teammates
• Healthcare experience
• Public Accounting / Big 4 experience
• Data analytics experience
• Experience in international space, including anti-corruption audits. Language skills (Portuguese, German, Spanish) are a plus

• Certified Internal Auditor or willingness to pursue
• Certified Public Accountant or willingness to pursue
• Certified Information Systems Auditor or willingness to pursue
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional or willingness to pursue

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita's online training platform StarLearning.