Director of Internal Audit

Atlas Search; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlas Search, a global financial services firm, is creating a new VP level role in New York to lead Internal Audit coverage of Fixed Income valuations across IPV, operations, and valuation controls. The role offers direct collaboration with traders, quants, model risk, and valuation controllers, enabling a front-to-back view of risk and controls.

You will lead assurance work, use data analytics and AI to steer coverage toward continuous monitoring, and guide junior staff on risk assessment and

Qualifications

• 6–15 years of Internal Audit experience at a large bank or financial services firm.
• Experience across Fixed Income including operations, product control, valuation control, market risk, and credit risk.
• Ability to explain risk clearly and directly; strong communication.
• Ideas on how data and AI can change audits.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead assurance work on valuation risk and related controls.
• Spot risks early and integrate into risk assessment and audit coverage.
• Explain matters to management in clear terms.
• Tie metrics across valuation, market risk, models, and P&L to inform risk view.
• Oversee work against audit methodology and quality standards; coach juniors.
• Partner with stakeholders globally, including traders, quants, model risk, valuation controllers.
• Use data analytics and AI tools to focus coverage toward continuous monitoring.

Skills

Audit leadership

Data analytics

AI in audit

Communication skills

Capital markets audit

Education

CIA/CPA/CFA/SIE/CIDA/CAIA

Job description

A global financial services firm with investment banking, securities, and wealth management businesses is investing in its Internal Audit team and pushing toward automation, with a goal of data-driven, AI-enhanced audit work. The team gives senior management an independent view of the firm's biggest risks and tests how well the controls, risk management, and governance hold up. Auditors cover the front, middle, and back office, and mobility is big here, you can move within audit, into the business, or internationally, and the firm caters to what you want out of your career!

This is a newly created VP seat in New York leading audit coverage of valuation risk across Fixed Income in the institutional securities (sales and trading) business. Most banks keep audit very siloed, here you'd work directly with traders, quants, model risk, and valuation teams, so you get a true front to back view of the business.

Role

Internal Audit VP, Fixed Income Valuations. You'd cover controls across the whole Fixed Income business, including IPV, operations, product control, valuation control, market risk, and credit risk. The seat sits on a global team, and it's built for someone who can explain risk clearly and directly, knows audit fundamentals cold, and has ideas on how data and AI can change the way audits get done.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead assurance work on valuation risk and the controls in place to mitigate it
• Spot risks and emerging risks early and build them into risk assessment and audit coverage
• Tell management what matters and why, in clear terms they can act on
• Tie together metrics across valuation, market risk, models, and P&L to shape the view on valuation risk and controls
• Oversee the team's work against audit methodology and quality standards, keep projects lined up with department priorities, and coach the junior folks
• Partner with stakeholders globally, plus traders, quants, model risk, and valuation controllers
• Use data analytics and AI tools to focus coverage, moving toward continuous monitoring

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 6-15 years of Internal Audit experience at a large bank or financial services firm, with front to back capital markets audit experience across Fixed Income, including operations, product control, valuation control, market risk, and credit risk
• Range matters most, you've covered more than one narrow function, not just cash or a single asset class
• Working level knowledge of Fixed Income products and their key risks (rates, FX, credit, commodities, securitized products), deep valuation expertise isn't required. Rates or FX derivatives exposure or credit exposure is a plus
• Strong communication, you can explain what you do and the risks involved clearly and directly, and lead with your point. This is the number one filter for the seat
• Specific ideas on how you'd use AI or data analytics in an audit, not just a line on your resume
• Experience leading audit engagements and directing junior staff
• Valuations, Product Control, or Risk professionals with strong Fixed Income product knowledge are welcome too, as long as you're genuinely interested in moving into audit long term
• CIA, CPA, CFA, SIE, CIDA, or CAIA preferred