Director, Internal Audit
About The Position
The Director, Internal Audit, is responsible for leading and executing a risk-based financial and operational audit strategy across assigned business areas, ensuring alignment with enterprise risks and strategic priorities, regulatory requirements, and Internal Audit standards. This role provides strategic oversight of audit execution, drives continuous improvement in audit quality and methodology, and serves as a trusted advisor to senior leadership. The Director is accountable for delivering high impact assurance and advisory engagements, developing talent, and enhancing the overall effectiveness of governance, risk management, and internal control processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- 10 plus years of relevant experience
- Prior people leadership experience
Nice To Haves
- Advance degree preferred
- CPA, CIA, or CISA
- Big 4 or large corporate internal audit experience
- Integrated audit experience
- Executive stakeholder exposure
- Master’s degree a plus
- CPA, CIA, CISA or related certifications preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of the annual audit plan, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk priorities
- Partner with Internal Audit leadership to evolve audit coverage
- Leverage data analytics and technology to enhance audit effectiveness
- Evaluate the significance of audit findings, review findings, recommendations and corrective action with appropriate levels of management and executives
- Oversee end to end audit execution
- Ensure quality and consistency of audit deliverables and internal documentation
- Drive clear articulation of risks and remediation plans
- Serve as liaison with senior management
- Align on findings and remediation
- Influence business leaders through actionable insights
- Identify emerging risks
- Drive risk based audit methodology
- Provide advisory on control design and governance
- Lead and develop audit teams
- Foster high performance culture
- Drive accountability for achieving key performance metrics, while advancing AI enabled insights and broader technology transformation initiatives
- Oversee the preparation and quality of audit reports delivered to leadership and the Audit Committee
- Provide updates to various governance forums
- Maintain Internal Audit policy manual
- Communicate complex topics effectively
Benefits
- competitive compensation package
- annual bonus
- long-term incentive opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
