Director of Internal Audit, State of Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles

My name is Adam Abner, I'm the Director of Internal Audit for the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. What we do is we're in charge of auditing all the processes that make up the DMV. The last risk assessment that we did, which we do every year, that's one of my primarily roles, is that we identify 119 processes that make up the BMV and the BMVC. When we identify a process and review it, we have to learn the process, how it works, and then we have to identify the risks associated with that process, identify the controls associated with it, make sure the controls are sufficient for that, those risks, and to make sure those controls actually function. The year audit isn't really a year audit. It's really a risk assessment. So, it's just identifying all the processes and coming up with, okay, what is the risk level for each of these processes and then using that to design an audit plan to determine what audits will be done over the year. When you're working as an internal auditor, you're gonna be thrown into all kinds of different processes that you never had knowledge about. And, what's really exciting about that is you really, truly get to learn the organization like no one else does. As you progress in internal audit, which is typically just Senior Auditor, Manager skill set, you move from just doing audits, which you still do some of, to managing the audits. So, you really start engaging in training other employees on how to become auditors and really inspecting the work to make sure that it's of quality. As you progress to director level, then you start being in charge of relationships of the department compared to the other department. You may not be doing as much review as you would as a Senior or a Audit Manager but, your gonna still wanna check some things. You're probably gonna wanna refuse several audits from each auditor every year. You're probably gonna wanna finalize every audit plan that's used for every audit and you're probably gonna wanna review every finding. And, that's what, a lot of what I do. I review all the findings, I review the audit plans, I check, spot checks a lot of the audit work just to make sure that they are considering all the risks, that they're gathering all the evidence, really need to build the conclusion that they came up with. And then, just building those relationships within the agency and doing a lot of consulting projects.