Rotational Program Associate - Global Audit

Job Summary

The Rotational Program Associate position at Bread Financial offers recent college graduates the opportunity to explore different areas of our business and develop a variety of skills. Participants will collaborate with 2-3 different teams throughout our organization in areas such as Global Audit, Risk, Corporate Events and Engagement, People & Culture, Marketing, among possible others. This allows them to better understand their skill set and desired career path. They will also build a firm knowledge of our business and company culture and take part in a Talent Development curriculum focused on self-awareness and early career growth.

Internal Audit, organizationally branded as Global Audit, is an independent and objective assurance and consulting department designed to add value and improve the operations of Bread Financial and its subsidiaries (collectively Bread Financial). Global Audit's mission is to enhance and protect organizational value by providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice, and insight. Global Audit helps Bread Financial accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of governance, risk management, and control processes. To assist and support the audit process, the Continuous Audit team leverages data science and analytics to identify relevant data populations (SQL, Dataiku), analyze that data (Python, Dataiku), and identify/report anomalies (Dataiku, MicroStrategy/Power BI). These anomalies will be discussed with the data and business process owners, and if determined to be outliers, management will then take action on reviewing their processes to address these and potential future outliers.

Essential Job Functions

• Gaining an understanding of the associate’s related area of the enterprise and completion of role-specific training provided by their respective team. Participate and demonstrate new knowledge gained through individual coaching and training conversations, while continuing to expand knowledge of the broader organization. - (30%)
• Demonstrate outstanding verbal and written communication skills when working with internal and external partners. Present information in a clear, concise, and professional manner utilizing technology and innovation. - (20%)
• Build and maintain effective internal and external business partnerships. Identify, resolve, and escalate concerns as needed. - (20%)
• Learn proper process and procedures relevant to an associate’s respective team. Utilize knowledge of Microsoft Office tools and specific job-related technology. - (10%)
• Activity-based Training Development curriculum and Talent Mobility programs to facilitate participation development. - (10%)
• Actively seek out opportunities to expand knowledge of the broader business. By completing overviews of other teams, project interactions, or other cross functional collaboration, continuously expand knowledge of the organization, offerings, and innovations. - (5%)
• Follow established guidelines for quality and productivity. Act responsibly to minimize risk and ensure compliance. Support internal and external audits. - (5%)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous completion of a Bread Financial Summer Internship
• SQL experience
• Exposure to data visualization

Skills

• Microsoft Office
• Time Management
• Professional Etiquette
• Deadline driven
• Critical thinking
• Basic coding skills

Reports To: Supervisor and above

Direct Reports: 0

Work Environment

• Normal office environment. (Remote or Hybrid), 3 to 4 days per month are required in office if within 60 miles of a Bread Financial location.

Physical and Mental Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily and meet the physical, mental and work environment requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions, absent undue hardship.

• Typing/Writing

Other Duties

This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time, the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.