Senior Director Audit- Banking Operations & Corporate Functions

City National Bank • Jersey City, NJ

17h • $187,000 - $308,000

About The Position

This role is responsible for directing and overseeing the Banking Operations and Corporate Functions audit functions of a large, complex enterprise. The role involves orchestrating audit planning, managing process improvement projects, continuous risk monitoring, representing the organization to internal and external stakeholders, aligning audit strategies with corporate goals, and providing key review, challenge and advisement to executive management.
The role encompasses audit/ project development, talent management, and maintaining consistent financial and tracking metrics across the organization. This role also gets exposure and experience with key C-Suite meetings and presentations, Audit Committee preparations, and other meaningful executive presence opportunities. This role will report to the Chief Audit Executive and is a key member of the Internal Audit leadership team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• 15+ years of audit or accounting experience within a top tier financial services organization or big “4” public accounting firm
• 7+ years of experience managing staff.
• In depth experience and knowledge of financial services banking, including banking operations, treasury services, and various corporate functions.
• Demonstrated experience in audit-related fields, including a working knowledge of appropriate risk management techniques as well as a strong understanding of audit processes and internal controls.
• Effective negotiation skills, a proactive, risk based and 'no surprises' approach in communicating issues and strength in sustaining independent views.
• Strong leadership skills. Excellent communication skills, oral and written. Ability to interact effectively with management and staff at all levels
• Ability to analyze risk trends at a macro level, identifying signs of changing risk levels and/or symptoms of process control breakdowns.
• Experienced in making presentations to executives, groups of professionals, board members, and external stakeholders
• Experience working with US regulators such as OCC, Federal Reserve, etc.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or Masters’ degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or related field (Preferred)
• Related certifications (CPA, ACA, CFA, CIA, CISA or similar) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develops the annual audit plan for Banking Operations and Corporate Functions businesses; and contributes to the development of multi-year approach to audit of assigned portfolio.
• Be an effective thought leader; Interpret business priorities, anticipate issues and obstacles, and drive solutions
• Develops the annual audit plan for supported business; and contributes to the development of multi-year approach to audit of assigned portfolio.
• Develop and lead a high performing team of Auditors across several locations and time zones, including talent management, recruitment, performance management, coaching and career development
• Directs, counsels, and manages a staff of internal auditors assigned to engagements and review audit plan, fndings, and reports for sufficient scope, accuracy, appropriateness of conclusions and compliance with requirements.
• Leverages deep expertise in business strategy to support the audit function and the organization with actionable insights to drive ongoing success.
• Builds and Sustainsrelationship with business executives, regulators, external auditors, and audit committee of the CNB Board of Directors as required to facilitate proactive and ongoing dialogue or reporting relating to internal control; possesses high emotional intelligence and an ability to challenge in a nuanced way.
• Manages highly sensitive situations with high-impact outcomes (with stakeholders) that could have material impact on the platform and escalates control issues to the CAE in accordance with the IA escalation model. Keeps business executives and CAE abreast of significant control issues with potential significant impact on the platform.
• Supports the continuous risk monitoring approach andrelated practices with particular emphasis towards collaboration with key partners, leveraging the use of analytics, business intelligence, and other enabling approaches, technologies and tools.
• Reviews audit reports drafted by the Senior Manager/ Manager and reviewed by the Director of Audit.
• Directs coordination of co-sourced internal audit and external audit controls testing efforts, including walkthroughs, testing, audit requests and evaluation of deficiencies.
• Leverages data analysis and insights across the enterprise, and across all stages of the audit lifecycle, to apply to audit portfolio.
• Ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations based on audit evidence that may involve significant risk or ambiguity.
• Drives collaboration with other audit teams to provide holistic assessment and assurance of the end-to-end processes in key product lines.
• Coordinates and manages regulatory requests and examinations with bank regulators and external auditor.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including Medical, Dental and Vision plans, available the first of the month following start date
• Generous 401(k) company matching contribution
• Career Development through Tuition Reimbursement and other internal upskilling and training resources
• Valued Time Away benefits including vacation, sick and volunteer time
• Specialized health and family planning benefits including fertility benefits, and cancer, diabetes and musculoskeletal support programs
• Career Mobility support from a dedicated recruitment team
• Colleague Resource Groups to support networking and community engagement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees