Audit Engagement Manager, Finance

The Vanguard Group•Malvern, PA

5h•Hybrid

About The Position

Vanguard’s Internal Audit & SOX department is seeking an Audit Engagement Manager to join our Global Investment and Financial Audit Services (GIFAS) team! In this role, you’ll contribute to planning discussions, but your primary focus will be executing audit engagements—coordinating fieldwork, delegating tasks, performing hands‑on testing, and ensuring timely delivery within the established scope and timeline. We’re seeking individuals with strong critical‑thinking, project‑management, and relationship‑building capabilities who can communicate clearly, exercise sound judgment, and influence senior stakeholders. While the role predominantly supports Corporate Finance audits, the team may assist with investment‑related work from time to time, so investment knowledge is beneficial.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of experience in internal audit, controls, or risk advisory roles.
Bachelor’s degree (B.E./B.Com/BBA/B.Tech) in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
Experience delivering internal audits, evaluating control effectiveness, and recommending improvements that support business objectives within the corporate finance space.
Skilled in managing audit engagements, fostering productive stakeholder relationships, and coaching junior staff.
Effective communicator with strong problem-solving, documentation, and leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

Investment acumen is a plus, as the team may occasionally support investment‑related audit.

Responsibilities

Oversees the delivery of the audit and advisory engagements.
Ensures the timely delivery of the highest quality work and value-add recommendations.
Assesses the adequacy of the control environment, identifies control gaps and opportunities for continuous improvement based on relevant knowledge and experience.
Assists in developing and communicating the objectives of engagement to audit team, department management and business clients.
Outlines engagement scope and determines level of associated risk and analyzes data to determine underlying root causes.
Challenges established processes and controls to ensure they are adequate to mitigate risk.
Performs work and analysis on complex areas.
Communicates the status and results of assigned work to various levels of management.
Influences management to act on recommendations to strengthen the control environment and make process improvements.
Provides opinion on audit and advisory findings, ratings and recommendations to management.
Communicates expectations to team and provides meaningful feedback to help develop team members by identifying and communicating areas for improvement in a timely manner.
Establishes and maintains relationships with business management across aligned division and risk partners.
Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Assists clients in planning and conducting risk assessments, internal control reviews, and internal audits of a financial, operational, or compliance nature to enhance the effectiveness and value of the internal audit function.
Supports process efficiency initiatives, fraud detection measures, and efforts to enhance operational quality and regulatory compliance.
Helps improve internal audit performance and operating efficiency through staff augmentation, co-sourcing, or full outsourcing models, based on client needs.