Auditor

In April 2024, I was the internal audit manager at a small financial institution and they laid off my whole department. So I posted on LinkedIn that I was looking for work and within two days I had several offers for interviews that my connections on LinkedIn were offering. One of them was a man that I had met at church 15 years before. We bonded just through working in accounting and risk management, working at financial institutions. His wife was a CPA, so I talked to her a lot too. So it was someone I had known a long time ago and he got me the interview and it was a really good job. So networking is important.

If you want to be an auditor in a specific industry, you definitely want experience in that industry before you start to audit it. So, my educational background is in the public sector, in government for instance, and I had a few internships with cities, with non-profits, just trying to explore the world of government and the public sector. And that transitioned over to me getting this auditor job because I knew the industry a lot better than just having a passing interest in the job. So, it was definitely like I had to get prepared and know what I was getting into before I applied for the job.