Internal Audit Manager

STRIDE BANK NA•Sioux Falls, SD

About The Position

The Internal Audit Manager is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Bank’s internal audit program and enterprise issue management process.

Requirements

7+ years experience in internal audit, risk management, or banking required.
Ability to identify and analyze business processes, key risks, and critical controls.
Evaluate control design adequacy in meeting established objectives.
Collaborate, form relationships, build trust, and parter with business units and third party auditors and exmainers to identify process improvemens and solutions for risk mitigation.
Understand and apply risk assessment methodology and internal audit techniques
Critical thinking and knowledge of data analysis tools, techniques and decision-making abilities, to effectively make data-driven decisions.
Strong investigative, written and oral communication skills.
Strong commitment to ethics, and the ability to understand a variety of issues and perspectives.
Understanding of the banking industry, including bank partnerships with fintech companies.
Ability to adapt to changing regulatory environments and industry practices.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree, preferred.
Professional Certification preferred (e.g. CIA, CPA, etc.)

Responsibilities

Develops and maintains an enterprise risk assessment to drive the risk-based audit plan.
Executes the Internal Audit Plan through risk-based audits and partnering with thid party audit firms.
Performs quality assurance on audit work papers to evaluate the overall effectivess of the internal audit work, including documentation to support audit scope and conclusions.
Collaborates with stakeholders to define clear expectations for each audit project, establishing objectives, scope, timing, key contacts, and deliverables.
Ensures audit reports are clear, concise, actionable, and include the identification of root cause.
Oversees the enterprise issues log to ensure management responses and remediation activities are completed on a timely basis according to risk. Escalates issues as necessary.
Oversees third-party audits to ensure internal audit engagements are delivered timely in accordance with the internal audit schedule.
Performs follow up, including an appropriate level of validation testing, on the state of outstanding audit and enterprise risk issues.
Facilitates discussion with the management and operating personnel of both the Bank and its third-party partners to verify and obtain explanations of identified issues.
Cultivates and maintains strong relationships with external auditors and regulatory bodies to ensure compliance and alignment with industry best practices.
Coordinates the collection of audit and regulatory examination request items.
Performs other duties as assigned.