Senior Manager Integrated IT Audit

Optus; Sydney; Hybride; AUD 180 000 - 280 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Monthly credit

Product discounts

Flexible work

On-site facilities

Parental leave

Counselling services

Diversity networks

Résumé du poste

Optus seeks a Senior Manager IT, Integrated Audit to embed technology, cyber security, AI, systems and data risk considerations across Internal Audit. You will lead coverage, guide audits, and deliver insights for resilient, well-governed business outcomes.

You will collaborate with audit leaders to identify risks, provide specialist guidance, and drive assurance across technology-enabled processes. Join an organisation focused on reliable infrastructure and strong governance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in IT Audit or Technology Risk.
• Ability to integrate technology risks into audits across domains.
• Strong knowledge of cyber security concepts and cloud technologies.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communicating complex concepts to executives.
• Big 4 consulting firm experience is highly regarded.

Responsabilités

• Lead integration of technology, cyber security, AI, data risk into Internal Audit activities.
• Partner with leaders to identify, assess, challenge technology-related risks and dependencies.
• Provide oversight of technology assurance including IAM, cloud, data governance, resilience, third-party risk.
• Coach teams and advance integrated audit methodologies across the function.

Connaissances

IT Audit

Technology Risk

Cyber Security

Data Risk

IT Assurance

Stakeholder mgmt

Executive communication

Big 4 experience

Description du poste

Every day, millions of Australians connect, work, stream, and stay in touch on the Optus network. When it works seamlessly, it’s easy to take for granted. But behind it is a team making thousands of decisions every day - decisions that keep people, businesses and communities connected.

Right now, Optus is focused on getting the fundamentals right - simplifying how we work, lifting standards, and building a more reliable, resilient experience for our customers.

It’s not about surface-level change. It’s about how we make decisions, how we work together, and how we deliver.

As the Senior Manager IT, Integrated Audit, you will play a critical role in embedding technology, cyber security, artificial intelligence, systems and data risk considerations across the Internal Audit portfolio. Working closely with audit leaders and engagement teams, you will ensure technology-related risks and controls are consistently integrated into audit planning, fieldwork, reporting and issue follow‑up. This role provides specialist IT audit leadership, drives continuous improvement in integrated assurance practices, and delivers strategic insights that support resilient, secure and well‑governed business outcomes across the organisation.

The Day to Day

• Lead the integration of technology, cyber security, artificial intelligence, systems and data risk considerations across the Internal Audit portfolio, ensuring appropriate coverage within audit planning, testing and reporting activities.
• Partner with audit leaders and engagement teams to identify, assess and challenge technology-related risks, controls and dependencies, providing specialist guidance and escalating material gaps where required.
• Provide expert oversight of technology assurance, including cyber security, cloud, data governance, application controls, identity and access management, resilience, third‑party risk and digital transformation initiatives.
• Build capability across the Internal Audit function by coaching audit teams, developing integrated audit methodologies, and promoting consistent approaches to technology-enabled risk assessment and assurance.

What You Bring

• Significant experience in IT Audit, Technology Risk, Cyber Security, Data Risk or IT Assurance, ideally within a complex, highly regulated or technology-driven environment.
• Proven ability to integrate technology, cyber, data and systems risks into operational, financial, regulatory, transformation and customer-focused audits.
• Strong understanding of technology control frameworks, cyber security principles, cloud technologies, identity and access management, resilience, data governance, automated controls and third‑party technology risk.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into practical business insights for executives and Board-level audiences.
• Experience gained within a Big 4 consulting firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY or KPMG) in Technology Risk, IT Audit, Cyber Security, IT Assurance or Digital Risk Advisory will be highly regarded.

The good stuff

• Competitive remuneration and colleague discounts. Make life easier (and more affordable) with $80 monthly credit and 25% off Optus products and outstanding shopping discounts with our retail partners.
• Flexible working arrangements with opportunities to work three days in the office, two days remote or home.
• Vibrant and collaborative office campus that includes cafes, convenience store, chill out zones, GP, post office, gym, and on‑site childcare centre.
• Competitive leave policies, including additional 'Connected’ days to focus on culture, family, health, community, or whatever’s important to you.
• We support growing families with inclusive, carer-neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks.
• Build meaningful connections through colleague-led networks and diversity initiatives including Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, and Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+).
• Put your wellbeing first with free access to counselling and support services, 24/7 — in‑person, by phone, SMS, or video.
• Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon. Join us for an outstanding career opportunity!

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email [e-mail] or call 1800 309 170.

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity