Senior Audit Manager: Strategy, Leadership & Risk Oversight

Jobtailor; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks an experienced Internal Audit Leader to guide large, complex audit teams and shape risk-based assurance across the enterprise. You will mentor staff, oversee risk coverage, and partner with executives to drive compliance and operational improvements.

Responsibilities include planning engagements, reviewing control matrices, delivering insights, and championing regulatory alignment while advancing the audit function's strategic agenda.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required.
• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
• Ability to lead large, complex audit teams.
• Knowledge of industry, external/internal environments and enterprise frameworks.
• Ability to identify trends and operational efficiencies.
• Knowledge of internal policies, frameworks, methodologies and regulatory guidelines.
• Ability to assess regulatory impacts to the Bank.
• Ability to identify, mitigate, report, and escalate risk.
• Ability to manage audit planning, reviews, sign-offs and remediation.
• Ability to manage teams, set targets, coach, recruit, and allocate resources.
• Ability to prioritize workload and meet deadlines.
• Ability to build relationships across multiple business areas.
• Ability to manage teams through change.

Responsibilities

• Hire talent, set goals, develop staff, manage performance and compensation decisions.
• Oversee and lead large, diverse audit teams.
• Advise leadership on portfolio, industry matters, and operational efficiencies.
• Facilitate strategic audit discussions and provide thought leadership to executives.
• Set operational direction and collaborate to achieve goals.
• Develop and implement holistic audit-area strategies aligned with the audit strategy.
• Plan and manage audit engagements to ensure adequate risk coverage.
• Review planning memoranda, control matrices, findings grids, and reports.
• Complete L2 reviews and sign off on audit activities with evidence uploads.
• Advise management on emerging trends, issues, opportunities, and actions.
• Lead relationships with enterprise partners to manage audit scope and accountability.
• Provide integrated views, escalations, and decision support to leadership.
• Forecast initiatives and coordinate portfolio prioritization with stakeholders.
• Lead policy, process, and change implementation across audit areas.
• Ensure adherence to internal policies and regulatory guidelines.
• Lead relationships for regulatory alignment across business lines.
• Assess issues, elevate where needed, and drive remediation.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives as SME.
• Oversee internal audit action and remediation plans.
• Manage teams to deliver results and align with enterprise demand.
• Foster productivity, innovation, and process improvement.
• Coordinate resources to complete audits by deadlines.
• Provide coaching, development, succession, recruitment, and leadership.
• Manage workload, communication, relationships, and change.
• Represent Internal Audit as a brand ambassador internally and externally.

Skills

Audit leadership

Regulatory compliance

Risk management

Strategic communication

Team development

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Job description

Jobtailor seeks an experienced Internal Audit Leader to guide large, complex audit teams and shape risk-based assurance across the enterprise. You will mentor staff, oversee risk coverage, and partner with executives to drive compliance and operational improvements.

Responsibilities include planning engagements, reviewing control matrices, delivering insights, and championing regulatory alignment while advancing the audit function's strategic agenda.