Senior Manager, Internal Audit Strategy

TD Bank • Mount Laurel, NJ

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About The Position

The Senior Manager, Business Management oversees and leads a large and/or highly complex, and diverse business management function for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope usually involving medium to long term planning, ensuring an integrated approach with other business management areas, broader organization, and enterprise as appropriate. Position Summary The Senior Manager, Internal Audit Strategy is a strategic leadership role responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving the audit strategy to position Internal Audit as a high-impact, innovative assurance function. This role blends strategic planning, governance, and business management with advanced audit methodologies—such as data-driven risk sensing, AI-enabled assurance, and predictive analytics—to drive organizational resilience and value creation. The successful candidate will champion a forward-thinking mindset, ensuring the audit strategy is agile, digitally native, and aligned with emerging risks and regulatory changes. You will develop and execute multi-year strategic roadmaps, optimize audit processes, and ensure alignment with organizational goals. This role requires critical thinking, strong leadership, and the ability to anticipate and respond to emerging trends and risks. Department Overview Our team of trusted audit professionals interact with every part of the Bank to provide strategic guidance and independent oversight. Through due diligence, and with a strong sense of integrity, we help mitigate potential risks to our business. At the heart of audit is our specialization in all the businesses across the bank. Safeguarding the reputation of TD's good governance depends on us. We’re counted on to provide recommendations to enhance operational performance, at every single level to foster meaningful process improvements and ensure adherence to internal and external regulations. We crunch the data, consult with our partners and stakeholders, and present our findings to mitigate the risks of today and around the corner and help keep our daily operations running smoothly for our customers.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree required; graduate degree in a related field is considered an asset.
• 10+ years of experience in internal audit, strategy, governance, or a related field within a large financial services organization.
• Advanced knowledge of audit methodologies, strategic planning, governance, and industry trends impacting internal audit.
• Experience driving large, complex initiatives related to audit transformation, including adoption of new processes, tools, and technologies.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with a track record of developing innovative solutions to complex audit challenges.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Experience managing stakeholder expectations and delivering strategic insights to support executive decision-making.
• Proficiency with audit analytics tools, MS Office, Audit Management Systems, and data analysis methods.
• Deep understanding of compliance, risk management, and regulatory standards as they relate to internal audit strategy.
• Ability to ensure all audit activities align with internal policies, external regulations, and audit best practices.

Responsibilities

• Oversees and leads a large and/or highly complex, and diverse business management function for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope
• Strategic partner to leadership team on the management of the portfolio and financials, with deep industry, external / internal, enterprise knowledge, recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and; identifying operational efficiencies and opportunities with other business management / enterprise areas
• Facilitates key strategic discussions and provide thought leadership to executive audience (output may include strategic roadmap and/or deliverables/ frameworks/ short to long term goals etc.)
• Sets operational team direction and collaborate with others to execute on common goals
• Focus on longer-range planning for functional area (e.g. 12 months or greater)
• Lead the development and annual refresh of the internal audit strategy, incorporating industry best practices and aligning with the bank-wide Vision, Strategy & Goals.
• Build multi-year strategic roadmaps addressing capability gaps, resource planning, and critical coverage areas.
• Facilitate strategic discussions with executive leadership, providing thought leadership and delivering frameworks, activity roadmaps, and investment plans.
• Forecast business transformation initiatives and coordinate with key leaders to prioritize the portfolio of new programs.
• Oversee integrated project portfolio governance, ensuring alignment with business and enterprise objectives.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with recognized project management methodologies, discipline, and controls.
• Lead relationships with control function partners (Risk, Legal, Compliance, AML, Audit) to assess risks and implement proactive strategies to manage regulatory and governance issues.
• Provide business and performance reporting and analytics to enable effective audit planning and executive decision support.
• Leverage data analytics to provide actionable insights on audit trends, risk areas, and strategic priorities.
• Develop and deliver presentations and communications to management and broader audiences.
• Partner with Change Management Team to drive adoption of new audit processes, tools, and technologies, ultimately supporting successful outcomes of strategic initiatives.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning within the audit strategy team, Professional Practices and the broader Internal Audit Teams.
• Set targets and objectives for the team, delivering results and growing team expertise to align with enterprise demand and direction.
• Provide coaching, development, succession planning, recruitment, and overall team leadership.
• Foster an environment that encourages productivity, innovation, process improvement, teamwork, and professionalism.
• Develops, communicates and implements a holistic strategy for own specific business management function in support of and integrated with the overall business strategy
• Oversees / leads / manages and plans a work activities that may require alignment across multiple areas
• Leads the team in the development and/or integrated implementation of policies / processes / procedures / changes across multiple functional areas
• Leads partner to management and respective teams for area of specialization with industry, external and internal, enterprise and business awareness; recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and; identifying issues and opportunities and recommending action to senior management
• Acts as a strategic partner by leading relationships with key enterprise partners and interfacing with respective leadership team to effectively manage own business management area and clarify scope of accountabilities while influencing and aligning others as needed
• Ensures an integrated and aggregated view of all related activities across the overall function providing escalations, recommendations, and decision support to leadership.
• Forecasts programs / initiatives and demand, and coordinate prioritization of the portfolio/ initiatives with key stakeholders
• Provides functional / business level communications to ensure messages to stakeholders and/or employees are consistent, appropriate and aligned to business strategies and executive management direction
• Ensures team adheres to enterprise frameworks and methodologies related to overall business management activities
• Leads relationships with corporate and/or control functions to ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
• Supports team in staying knowledgeable on emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts to the Bank
• Assesses / identifies key issues and escalate to appropriate levels and relevant stakeholders and business management where required
• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes and sound infrastructure an in alignment with risk appetite
• Identifies, mitigates and reports on risk issues per enterprise policy / guidelines and ensures appropriate escalation processes are followed
• Ensures business operations are in compliance with applicable internal and external requirements (e.g. financial controls, segregation of duties, transaction approvals, and physical control of assets).
• Works closely with key business leaders to optimize TDBGs resources and leverage TDs operating model to maximize efficiency, effectiveness and scale
• Leads or contributes to cross-functional / enterprise initiatives as an organizational or subject matter expert helping to identify risk / provide guidance for complex situations
• May lead relevant governance meetings or committees and related deliverables / outcomes representing the business on governance and control issues
• Manages oversight process, risk-based identification and monitoring of related risks and regulatory compliance across the supported functions, while ensuring key controls and processes are effectively managed
• Oversees or leads the facilitation and/or implementation of action/remediation plans to address performance/risk/governance issues
• Responsible for management of the overall team(s) providing both leadership and guidance
• Sets targets and objectives for the team, and deliver results
• Grows team expertise to align with enterprise demand and the Bank's direction; assess team skills and capabilities and continually looks for ways to provide and enhance the value delivered
• Fosters an environment / culture that encourages productivity, innovation, process improvement, teamwork and a high level of professionalism
• Co-ordinates necessary resources to ensure completion by deadlines
• Provides coaching, development, succession, recruitment, resource management and overall team leadership for team members and provide regular input into team members assessment of performance and development plans
• Prioritizes and manages own workload in order to deliver quality results and meet timelines
• Supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Identifies and recommends opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency
• Establishes effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program and project managers
• Participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business units

Benefits

• Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD.
• Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role.
• Total Rewards at TD includes base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards (e.g., eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards, generally through participation in an incentive plan) and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off (including Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO), banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees