Audit Director - Financial Crimes

Truist; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Truist is seeking a Senior Director of Audit Services to lead risk-based internal audit assurance for the Audit Committee and Executive Management. You will guide a team to execute a dynamic audit plan and maintain high-quality output while ensuring governance and control effectiveness across assigned business units.

The Director will collaborate with senior management, oversee 1LOD coverage, and stay current with banking industry trends to identify risks and assurance opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or business-related field.
• Ten years of progressive audit, risk, or examiner experience in financial services.
• Comprehensive knowledge of banking, risk management, and audit practices.
• Excellent leadership, decision making, and critical thinking skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication with senior management.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage a comprehensive audit assurance program for assigned business units.
• Directly manage a team of audit professionals and ensure dynamic audit plan completion.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with senior management of assigned BUs.
• Supervise planning, scoping and execution of audit activities.
• Analyze BU systems and controls to assess design and operating effectiveness of internal controls.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Decision making

Critical thinking

Strategic relationship building

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or business-related field

Master’s degree in a Business-related field

CIA/CISA/CPA certification

CAMS or CRCM certification

Tools

Certified Internal Auditor

Certified Information Systems Auditor

Certified Public Accountant

Job description

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Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency:

English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

The Truist Audit Services Director is responsible for coordinating and managing the delivery of value-added, independent, objective, risk-based internal audit assurance services for the Audit Committee and Executive Management. Through well-developed relationships with Senior Management and ongoing business monitoring activities, the Director develops and maintains a comprehensive, dynamic audit plan and directs a team of audit professionals in the execution and completion of the plan while maintaining responsibility for the overall quality of audit work performed.

In addition, the Director provides oversight of audits covering First Line of Defense (1LOD) activities, working closely with audit delivery teams and First Line management to assess key risks, evaluate the effectiveness of governance, risk management, and control processes, and ensure appropriate audit coverage across assigned areas. The Director serves as a strategic liaison between audit teams and business leadership, fostering collaboration, effective challenge, and timely resolution of risk and control issues.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

• Establish and manage a comprehensive, dynamic audit assurance program for assigned business units (BU). Supervise and coordinate audit activities to ensure all assigned responsibilities are performed in a high quality manner and on a timely basis.
• Directly manage a team of audit professionals and assume responsibility for the overall coordination and successful completion of a dynamic audit plan for assigned BUs. Effectively lead and manage resources to ensure performance measures and metrics are established and met. Provide leadership in the coaching and development of staff.
• Proactively develop and maintain mutually beneficial working relationships with senior management of assigned BUs.
• Supervise and participate in the planning, scoping and execution of audit activities within the framework established by the department's policies and audit methodology.
• Comprehensively analyze assigned BUs existing systems, processes and controls to determine the adequacy of the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls. Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and corporate policies. Identify and evaluate risks present in BU coverage areas.
• Review and approve audit reports, ensuring they are accurate, clear, concise and relevant such that recipients readily understand issues and risks.
• Develop and monitor risk assessments through interaction with and analysis of assigned business units. Lead the regular aggregation, correlation, and analysis of a robust program of business monitoring activities designed to identify potential changes impacting the risk profiles.
• Serve as an audit subject matter expert for assigned BUs, and continually monitor trends and developments in the auditing profession and banking industry.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or business-related field, or equivalent education and related training or experience.
• Ten years of progressive audit, risk, or examiner experience with a significant portion in the financial services industry, preferably with a large financial services firm.
• Demonstrated comprehensive knowledge of banking, risk management, and audit practices, with the ability to understand the broader risk.
• Excellent leadership abilities, decision making, and critical thinking skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with senior management and other stakeholders.
• Appropriate professional certification, such as, but not limited to, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, or Certified Public Accountant.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a Business-related field.
• Completion of a graduate school of banking.
• CAMS or CRCM Certification

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation:

All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position.

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• disability
• accidental death and dismemberment
• tax-preferred savings accounts
• a 401k plan
• no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment
• 10 sick days (also prorated)
• paid holidays
• Truist’s defined benefit pension plan
• restricted stock units
• a deferred compensation plan

As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.

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