Sr Manager Internal Audit

Target; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Target in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Manager, Internal Audit to translate strategy into action and lead assurance across SOX ITGC, business controls, and automated controls. You will drive the transformation with data analytics, GenAI, and automation while strengthening stakeholder relationships and delivering risk insights.

The role emphasizes inclusive leadership, professional skepticism, and guiding the team through change, with a focus on building an AI-enabled yet human-led Internal Audit

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in commerce, accountancy, management, or related field.
• 8+ years post-qualification experience in audit, risk, compliance, or related area.
• Experience in SOX or IFC and internal audit preferred; Big Four or retail experience advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of internal audit and enterprise risk management.
• Ability to lead a risk-based assurance strategy and forward-looking audit pipeline.
• Excellent judgment, professional skepticism, and integrity.
• Strong communication, storytelling, and stakeholder influence.
• People leadership with ability to coach through ambiguity.
• Experience applying Gen AI, data analytics, and automation to solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead assurance and compliance delivery: manage audit professionals across SOX ITGC, business process controls, and automated controls.
• Support enterprise and India-focused assurance covering Target enterprise and India capabilities, including IFC compliance.
• Drive Internal Audit transformation using data analytics, automation, GenAI, and agentic AI.
• Provide forward-looking risk insights by monitoring evolving risks and communicating recommendations.
• Build high-performing teams through coaching, accountability, and development.
• Manage stakeholders with clear, timely communication and constructive challenge.

Skills

Internal audit

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

People leadership

Gen AI adoption

Data analytics

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in commerce/accountancy/management or related field

Certifications: CA/ACCA/CPA/CIA/CISA/CISM/CRISC/PMP etc.

Job description

About Target

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that purpose to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

You’ll bring your unique point of view, experience and passion for the work to your team and internal clients. You’ll be an integral voice in discussions that lead to Target’s unparalleled shopping experience. Your analysis and recommendations will be directly applied to critical business decisions, from sales to merchandising and beyond. You’ll enjoy the interesting challenges of the competitive retail space. You’ll see your contributions come to life in virtually every area of this dynamic enterprise. And you’ll grow and be challenged in your career while having a healthy balance with life outside of work.

About Internal Audit

Internal Audit brings Target’s purpose to life by providing independent assurance and risk insights that matter to the Audit & Risk Committee, executive leaders, business owners, support functions, and risk-focused partners across the enterprise. Our objective insights help strengthen performance, resilience, and confident decision-making across Target.

About the Role

As Senior Manager, Internal Audit, you will partner with the Internal Audit Director to translate the team’s vision and strategy into action. You will lead assurance and compliance work, develop high-performing talent, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and help transform Internal Audit through the responsible use of data and emerging technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead assurance and compliance delivery: Lead a team of audit professionals across SOX IT general controls, business process controls, and automated controls.
• Support enterprise and India-focused assurance: Perform varying roles in assurance activities related to Target enterprise business capabilities and Target in India capabilities, including regulatory requirements. Support or lead IFC compliance for the Target in India entity.
• Advance Internal Audit transformation: Set direction for and drive the responsible use of data analytics, automation, GenAI, and agentic AI to improve the efficiency, quality, and effectiveness of audit work.
• Provide forward-looking risk insights: Monitor current, emerging, internal, and external risks. Evaluate governance, risk management, processes, technology, data, and controls, and communicate timely recommendations that strengthen business results and resilience.
• Build high-performing teams: Set clear expectations, coach with care, hold team members accountable, and support meaningful development. Enable the team to deliver quality work, exercise sound judgment, and communicate with impact.
• Manage stakeholders effectively: Build productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders through clear, timely communication. Constructively challenge perspectives when needed to support effective execution and strong outcomes.

Leadership and Transformation Expectations

Success in this role requires inclusive and caring leadership that fosters belonging, critical thinking, professional skepticism, courage, candor, curiosity, adaptability, and enterprise-minded partnership. You must be able to lead teams through ambiguity and change while communicating with clarity and impact.

You will play a pivotal role in building an AI-enabled, human-led Internal Audit function. This requires hands-on familiarity with GenAI, agentic AI, agile ways of working, and data analytics, as well as the ability to guide the team in using these capabilities responsibly. Human judgment, quality, confidentiality, independence, and objectivity must remain central to the work.

Qualifications and Experience

• Education and credentials: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in commerce, accountancy, management, or a related field. Relevant professional certifications are preferred based on the portfolio, including Chartered Accountancy, ACCA, CPA, CIA, CISA, CISM, CRISC, PMP, data and analytics, AI, cyber, or other risk-related credentials.
• Relevant experience: Eight or more (8+) years of post-qualification experience, excluding internships, in audit, risk, compliance, retail, data, technology, cyber, or a related area. Experience in both SOX or IFC and internal audit is preferred; Big Four or retail industry experience is an advantage.
• Audit and risk expertise: Strong knowledge of internal audit and enterprise risk management, including risk assessment and prioritization, governance, processes and internal controls, root-cause analysis, issue remediation, and assurance or advisory delivery.
• Strategic assurance leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead a risk-based assurance strategy, develop a forward-looking audit pipeline, prioritize work across evolving risks, and influence enterprise-minded decisions that improve business outcomes and resilience.
• Judgment and integrity: Strong professional judgment, critical thinking, professional skepticism, curiosity, and courage, with the ability to make sound decisions amid ambiguity while preserving independence, objectivity, and quality.
• Communication and influence: Demonstrated executive communication, storytelling, stakeholder partnership, and influencing skills, including the ability to translate complex risk and control topics into clear, actionable messages.
• People leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop team members through ambiguity and change while fostering belonging, accountability, inclusive and caring leadership, and future-ready skills and mindsets.
• Technology enablement: Experience applying or leading the use of Gen AI, Agentic AI, data analytics & visualization, automation and other technology-enabled capabilities to solve business problems.

Core responsibilities may change at any time based on business needs.

Know More About Us here:

• Life at Target : https://india.target.com/

• Benefits : https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits

• Culture : https://india.target.com/life-at-target/belonging

• Target Tech : https://tech.target.com/