Senior Internal Audit Manager

Visa•Foster City, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

As an Internal Senior Audit Manager, you will assist in, or lead audit engagement audit engagement relate to Visa products and international market operations. You will lead all phase of the audit, including engagement planning and scoping activities, testing, reporting, while assisting more junior members of the team where appropriate. You will assist in coaching and developing team members and exhibit good judgment and accuracy in all work. You will serve as a key contact with client management, explaining the audit process and scope, keeping management apprised of audit progress and issues, and effectively delivering audit results to all levels of management. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, constantly working to protect our customers and the company. Stay abreast of company business strategies, industry advances, and the risk profile of assigned business areas to ensure relevancy of audit approach. You will champion bold ideas on how to evolve and grow or audit capabilities.

Requirements

8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
Strong risk management experience, including evaluating control designing and operating effectiveness within a complex operational and regulatory environment, managing enterprise control frameworks, and prioritizing risk.

Nice To Haves

9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
Preferably 7 to 10 years of experience, including 5 years internal audit experience with large or multinational financial institution, payments industry, or consulting firms, plus 5 years with big 4 or multinational public accounting firm.
Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, management information systems or related fields.
Operations auditing, product auditing, risk management, or compliance experience.
Experience in financial institutions and or payments is a plus.
Relevant professional certifications e.g., CIA, CPA, CISA, or CISSP.

Responsibilities

Participate in audit risk assessment, planning and audit scope development as well as project execution as a critical team member on large, complex projects.
Lead the execution of specific areas of a project, supervising other team members and providing coaching where requested.
Act as the incharge for selected audit projects, provide day to day and onsite support to ensure quality of Audit
Provide direction to auditors to ensure that audits are performed in accordance with department and professional standards.
Review audit work papers.
Review draft audit findings, and ensure issues are appropriately vetted and constructed given the circumstances.
Provide reports to management on the effectiveness of their business unit's internal control structure along with recommendations that improve the effectiveness and or efficiency of a control or process.
Evaluate the adequacy of management's response and the corrective action plans on all significant weaknesses noted in the reports.
Coordinates with other risk management functions and independent public accountants to minimize duplication of effort and to ensure that issues raised as a result of their reviews are appropriately addressed.
Maintain business relationships with appropriate levels of management to ensure that Audit is aware of changes in business activities and objectives, and a necessary Audit response is developed.
Possess outstanding written and oral communication skills. Ideas should be expressed clearly and concisely.
Performing as a sole contributor, teammate, and manager concurrently, while reporting into the Sr. Director, Internal Audit.
Interact with Audit project team members in working towards Departmental goals.
Demonstrate ability to resolve team conflicts and to bring the group together to enhance project results through group planning, feedback and development skills.
Promote thought leadership for new ideas and new ways of executing projects and processes to drive continuous improvements in the delivery of internal audit services.
Prepare performance evaluations for auditors.