Director Internal Audit

Target•Brooklyn Park, MN

7d•$135,000 - $243,000

About The Position

Internal Audit helps bring Target’s purpose to life by providing independent assurance and risk insights that matter to a broad group of stakeholders, including the Audit & Risk Committee, executive leaders, business owners, support functions, and risk-focused partners across the enterprise. Our objective insights help strengthen performance, resilience, and confident decision-making across Target. As a Director, Internal Audit, you will set strategic direction for your team and lead an assigned portfolio of enterprise risks, business capabilities, assurance activities, and stakeholder relationships. Your team and portfolio strategy will align with Internal Audit’s broader strategy, objectives, and key results, which you will help advance and inform through your risk insights, stakeholder relationships, and leadership across the total Internal Audit Plan. You will develop a forward-looking audit plan and continuously evolving pipeline for your assigned portfolio, informed by Target’s strategic, business, technology, data, and compliance objectives. You will lead risk-based assurance and advisory work across your assigned portfolio and contribute to prioritization across the total Internal Audit Plan. This includes understanding current, emerging, internal, and external risks; making enterprise-minded prioritization recommendations; evaluating governance, risk management, process, technology, data, and control capabilities; and communicating practical advice and timely insights that strengthen Target’s risk management capabilities, business results, and resiliency. You will provide clear direction and coaching to build high-performing teams that deliver quality work, exercise strong judgment, and communicate with impact. You will set expectations, hold team members accountable, support meaningful development, and build future-ready capabilities across audit judgment, risk acumen, business fluency, digital and data confidence, stakeholder partnership, curiosity, and continuous learning. Success in this role requires inclusive and caring leadership that fosters belonging, critical thinking, professional skepticism, courage, clear communication, curiosity, adaptability, enterprise-minded partnership, and the ability to lead teams through ambiguity and change. You will help modernize how Internal Audit works by responsibly integrating data, analytics, automation, GenAI, agile concepts, and other emerging capabilities into the audit lifecycle while reinforcing human judgment, quality, confidentiality, independence, and objectivity. Core Responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to the business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
10+ years of relevant audit, risk, compliance, finance, operations, retail/business, product, data, technology, cyber, or related experience
Strong knowledge of internal audit and enterprise risk management concepts, including risk assessment and prioritization, governance, process and internal controls, root cause analysis, issue remediation, and assurance or advisory delivery
Demonstrated ability to lead a risk-based assurance strategy, develop a forward-looking audit pipeline, prioritize work across evolving risks, and influence enterprise-minded decisions that strengthen business outcomes and resiliency
Strong professional judgment, critical thinking, professional skepticism, curiosity, courage, and ability to make sound decisions in ambiguity while preserving independence, objectivity, and quality
Demonstrated executive communication, storytelling, stakeholder partnership, and influencing skills, including the ability to communicate complex risk and control topics clearly and actionably
Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop team members through ambiguity and change while fostering belonging, inclusive and caring leadership, accountability, and future-ready skills, behaviors, and mindsets
Experience in applying or leading the use of data, analytics, visualization, automation, GenAI, and other technology-enabled capabilities to solve business problems.

Nice To Haves

Relevant professional certifications preferred depending on portfolio, such as CPA, CIA, CISA, CISM, CRISC, PMP, data/analytics, AI, cyber, or other risk-related credentials

Responsibilities

Set strategic direction for your team and lead an assigned portfolio of enterprise risks, business capabilities, assurance activities, and stakeholder relationships.
Develop a forward-looking audit plan and continuously evolving pipeline for your assigned portfolio, informed by Target’s strategic, business, technology, data, and compliance objectives.
Lead risk-based assurance and advisory work across your assigned portfolio and contribute to prioritization across the total Internal Audit Plan.
Understand current, emerging, internal, and external risks; make enterprise-minded prioritization recommendations; evaluate governance, risk management, process, technology, data, and control capabilities; and communicate practical advice and timely insights that strengthen Target’s risk management capabilities, business results, and resiliency.
Provide clear direction and coaching to build high-performing teams that deliver quality work, exercise strong judgment, and communicate with impact.
Set expectations, hold team members accountable, support meaningful development, and build future-ready capabilities across audit judgment, risk acumen, business fluency, digital and data confidence, stakeholder partnership, curiosity, and continuous learning.
Foster belonging, critical thinking, professional skepticism, courage, clear communication, curiosity, adaptability, enterprise-minded partnership, and the ability to lead teams through ambiguity and change.
Help modernize how Internal Audit works by responsibly integrating data, analytics, automation, GenAI, agile concepts, and other emerging capabilities into the audit lifecycle while reinforcing human judgment, quality, confidentiality, independence, and objectivity.