Audit Project Manager

US Bank; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Internal Auditor to partner with business lines and RCA teams to strengthen risk management and compliance. You will lead audit engagements, assess controls, and ensure alignment with IIA standards across diverse processes.

The role requires supervising staff, planning audits, identifying key risks, and delivering clear, actionable recommendations. A strong communicator with leadership and analytical skills will excel in this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience with at least six years in internal auditing or related fields.
• Strong knowledge of IIA Standards and internal controls.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Supervise audit staff and deliver high-quality work on engagements.
• Plan audits, identify risks, and develop testing programs.
• Coordinate with IT, AML, Compliance, and other teams for comprehensive coverage.
• Draft audit reports with clear issues, root causes, and actionable recommendations.
• Monitor progress and provide training to staff.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Analytical thinking

Time management

Adaptability

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree, or equivalent

CIA/CPA or other professional designation

Advanced degree (preferred)

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.

Job Description

Partners with their assigned Line of Business, other Risk/Compliance/Audit (RCA) professionals, and RCA Managers to, depending on their function, create, implement, maintain, review or oversee an effective risk management framework. Participates in projects and/or activities that ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Identifies gaps and inform solutions that minimize losses resulting from inadequate internal processes, systems or human errors. Identifies, responds and/or escalates risks as appropriate. Serves as a functional liaison between the Line of Business and the Lines of Defense.

Primary Responsibilities

• Supervising audit staff in the completion of audit engagements, ensuring the highest quality work delivered timely. Supervision includes: Assessing work performed by staff by providing coaching notes that are relevant to the scope, accuracy and completeness of work performed. Performing sufficient reviews to ensure work contains relevant facts to support audit scope and conclusions and adhere to internal audit policies and procedures. Reviewing issues to ensure potential exposures and significance are included, root causes are identified, and operationally effective and cost-effective actions to address those causes are developed into appropriate recommendations.
• Completing or assisting managers in planning audit engagements. Includes identifying and analyzing business processes, key risks and critical controls; interviewing auditees; determining audit scope; evaluating control design adequacy; and developing audit programs which provide sufficient guidance for testing control performance effectiveness and making evaluations which effectively achieve audit objectives.
• Assisting the managers in reporting and wrap-up phases of audits. Includes appropriate disposition of issues and drafting audit reports which include issues.
• Monitoring progress of audit engagements against plan and schedule. Includes making necessary adjustments and promptly completing work paper reviews on a timely basis to ensure all issues are identified and dispositioned prior to report draft issuance.
• Providing on-the-job training for staff.
• Includes business knowledge of products, services, and delivery systems; company policies and procedures; applicable laws and regulations; and formal/informal control frameworks.
• Collaborating across the three lines of defense regarding business processes, risks, and controls. Coordinating audit activities by integrating other internal audit subject matter teams (Information Technology, Anti-Money Laundering, Compliance, Risk Management, Treasury, etc.) to ensure appropriate and efficient coverage of the business products, services and processes. Managing the team's workload to assist other audit teams when resources are needed for areas of higher risk.
• Performing other duties as requested by management.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Typically, more than six years of applicable experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Relevant Financial Service Industry knowledge (e.g., Accounting, Financial Reporting, Tax, SOX, M&A, Lending, Regulatory Compliance, Operations, Risk Management, etc.).
• Bachelor's Degree preferably in accounting or finance
• Experience in auditing risks and controls within Financial Services (e.g. Accounting, Tax, Financial Reporting, SOX, M&A, etc.)
• Seven or more years of experience in internal auditing, public accounting or other relevant experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Proven leadership skills.
• Proven adaptability to changing priorities.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously.
• Thorough understanding of Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Standards and the common definition of internal controls. CIA, CPA or other relevant professional designation or advanced degree.

Location expectations

• *This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.
• We are hiring in the following locations:
  • Chicago, IL
  • Minneapolis, MN
  • Charlotte, NC
  • Irving, TX

Benefits

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members