Remote Senior Project Risk Auditor AI & Tech Transformations

KeyBank; United States; Hybrid; USD 71,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive compensation

Flexible in-office/remote options

Job summary

KeyBank’s Internal Audit is seeking a Senior Lead Auditor to lead risk-based reviews of complex programs across the lifecycle, focusing on governance, risk management, and controls. The role requires collaboration with business, technology, risk, compliance, and audit stakeholders to provide independent insights for successful initiatives while ensuring risks are identified and mitigated.

The ideal candidate will have strong audit and risk management capabilities with knowledge of AI, data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum of 3 years of audit, risk management, technology risk, project management, or related experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute all phases of project risk reviews, including planning, fieldwork, reporting, and issue validation activities.
• Conduct walkthroughs, and testing procedures to evaluate the effectiveness of governance, risk management, and internal controls.
• Review project status reporting, governance artifacts, risk registers, issue logs, and key performance indicators to assess overall project health.
• Identify, assess, and communicate project risks, control weaknesses, implementation concerns, and regulatory compliance issues.
• Draft audit findings, observations, executive summaries, and reporting deliverables for senior management and audit leadership.
• Escalate significant concerns to project leadership and monitor remediation efforts through completion.
• Coordinate integrated reviews involving multiple audit teams and subject matter experts across risk domains.
• Perform testing to evaluate adherence to enterprise project management standards, governance frameworks, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate risks and controls associated with technology-enabled transformation initiatives, and emerging technologies.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform in an organizational culture of respect and personal accountability regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Skills

Audit

Risk management

Technology risk

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

CPA

CIA

CISA

CSPO

CSM

PMP

CRISC

Job description

KeyBank’s Internal Audit is seeking a Senior Lead Auditor to lead risk-based reviews of complex programs across the lifecycle, focusing on governance, risk management, and controls. The role requires collaboration with business, technology, risk, compliance, and audit stakeholders to provide independent insights for successful initiatives while ensuring risks are identified and mitigated.

The ideal candidate will have strong audit and risk management capabilities with knowledge of AI, data