Senior Director-Internal Audit (Network)

Verizon • Alpharetta, GA

3d • $167,000 - $320,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Director of Internal Audit leads the Network and Technology Internal Audit team and helps shape and execute the Internal Audit organization’s mission to provide independent, objective assurance that adds value and improves operations. Reporting directly to the SVP Internal Audit, this role oversees evaluation and improvement of internal controls, processes, and risk management frameworks.

The role leads risk-based audit planning and execution across network and operational business units; oversees operational, technology, advisory, and special-project engagements; and ensures alignment with IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and established methodologies. It brings early risk and control perspectives to enterprise transformation initiatives, communicates strategic findings to executive leaders, and oversees corrective-action follow-up and quality improvement.

The Senior Director also advances digital audit capabilities through analytics, generative AI, continuous risk assessment, continuous auditing, and automated evidence gathering. The position builds trusted partnerships across business units and risk functions, advises on emerging risks and investigations, and leads talent management and development for a multi-level audit team.

This is a hybrid position with work from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, as set by the manager. The role is scheduled for 40 hours per week and requires willingness and ability to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Ten or more years of progressive experience in internal audit, risk management, finance, or a related field, including at least four years in a management role.
• Deep expertise in internal audit principles, risk management frameworks such as IIA standards, and relevant industry regulations.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, high-risk audit engagements and directing risk-based audit plans across operational, financial, and technology domains.
• Exceptional leadership and executive presence, including the ability to build trust with executive leaders, influence change, and navigate difficult conversations.
• Demonstrated experience managing, coaching, and developing talent across organizational levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including communicating risk, business impact, and strategic audit findings to executive leadership.
• Business acumen to connect audit findings to strategic business context, enterprise priorities, and actionable recommendations.
• Working understanding of self-service data analytics tools such as SQL/BigQuery, Qlik, or Alteryx, sufficient to direct strategies and review team execution.
• Strategic familiarity with AI-enabled tools such as enterprise GenAI assistants and foundational understanding of AI governance frameworks such as NIST AI RMF.
• Sound judgment regarding auditor independence, objectivity, and risk governance across the lines of defense.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in a relevant field, such as an MBA or MS in Accounting.
• Four or more years of experience leading teams with five or more direct reports.
• Professional certification such as CPA, CIA, CISA, CISM, CRISC, AAIA, or CISSP.
• Experience in telecommunications, network operations, or a similarly regulated enterprise environment.
• Prior public accounting experience specializing in operational audit.
• Hands-on experience or strategic familiarity with advanced data science and automation platforms such as Python, Snowflake, or Databricks in an audit or risk function.
• Experience assessing AI-enabled decision systems or automated data pipelines, or building or piloting agentic AI solutions in audit execution.

Responsibilities

• Direct development and execution of risk-based audit plans across network and operational business units, aligning scope and testing with industry best practices and enterprise risks.
• Collaborate with executive and senior leaders to align audit coverage with business objectives and adjust it as risks change.
• Oversee operational and technology-based engagements in accordance with IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and established methodologies.
• Direct advisory engagements and special projects, providing early risk and control insight during transformation initiatives.
• Represent Internal Audit in enterprise transformation forums and executive governance groups.
• Provide final quality review of audit reports and executive communications, clearly articulating business impact and strategic risk.
• Ensure audit observations are properly vetted and corrective-action plans are followed through to successful remediation.
• Use Quality Assurance and Improvement Program results to identify and implement continuous improvements to the audit process.
• Promote responsible adoption of self-service analytics tools and enterprise GenAI assistants to improve audit coverage, efficiency, and predictive risk insight while maintaining evidence standards.
• Direct assessments of AI-enabled and automated decision systems, including evaluation of control frameworks, ethical compliance, and data privacy across AI pipelines.
• Lead continuous risk assessment, continuous auditing, and automated evidence-gathering strategies and implementation.
• Build collaborative partnerships with executive leaders and advise them on emerging risks.
• Lead quarterly executive discussions and proactive communications about audit plans, priority findings, and strategic risk trends.
• Coordinate with Enterprise Risk Management, Compliance, and the first, second, and fourth lines of defense to support an integrated view of enterprise risk.
• Offer guidance in legal, ethical, and security investigations of compliance issues.
• Solicit stakeholder feedback after engagements and track the business impact of audit commitments.
• Champion outcome-based KPIs that measure value delivered as well as activity completed.
• Lead and develop Directors, Associate Directors, Senior Managers, Managers, and Consultants through career development, assignments, and leadership opportunities.
• Manage team talent processes, including hiring, onboarding, promotion recommendations, performance evaluations, and coaching.
• Foster leadership, accountability, and continuous improvement, and build a durable leadership pipeline through succession development, talent rotation, and knowledge sharing.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Basic and supplemental life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Identity theft protection
• Pet insurance
• Group home and auto insurance
• Matched 401(k) savings plan
• Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year
• Up to 6 personal days per year
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Tuition assistance
• Other incentives
• Potential premium pay, including overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, or allowances, depending on the role
• Up to 15 days of vacation per year for newly hired employees, increasing with additional service

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior