Internal Audit Financial Crime & Conduct Manager

Responsibilities

Financial Crime & Conduct Audit Leadership

• Lead audits across financial crime compliance, including AML/CFT, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption, as well as conduct and market integrity risk, across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes.
• Perform risk assessments to identify key areas of exposure and prioritize audit coverage.
• Design and execute control testing across business and compliance processes, evaluating control design and operating effectiveness.
• Assess conduct and market integrity controls, including market abuse and surveillance, personal account dealing, conflicts of interest, and consumer protection.
• Shape and contribute to multi-year audit plans aligned to the organization’s financial crime and conduct risk profile across jurisdictions.
• Lead AI-enabled auditing using generative AI, agentic workflows, and data analytics across the audit lifecycle while retaining human ownership of judgment and conclusions.

Engagement & Issue Management

• Lead multiple audit engagements concurrently, managing planning, fieldwork, and reporting end to end.
• Document audit findings, including control gaps and root causes, and draft clear, well-supported workpapers and reports.
• Track and validate remediation of identified issues, escalating delays or gaps to Internal Audit leadership.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of audit methodologies and frameworks.
• Ensure conformance with the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and quality assurance requirements.
• Lead engagement teams, including staffing and coordinating co-sourced resources, to ensure quality and timely delivery.

Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting

• Partner with Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Business stakeholders to communicate audit results and advise on control improvements while maintaining audit independence.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior management, the Audit Committee, and, where applicable, regulators.
• Support regulatory examinations and enforcement-related follow-up relevant to financial crime and conduct.
• Monitor evolving financial crime typologies, sanctions regimes, conduct expectations, and regulatory guidance across relevant jurisdictions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in internal audit, or a combination of audit and financial crimes compliance roles, within financial services.
• Direct experience assessing or auditing financial crime compliance programs, including AML/CFT frameworks.
• Multi-jurisdiction experience across more than one regulatory regime, ideally with globally distributed teams.
• Strong understanding of financial crime risks, including AML, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption.
• Understanding of conduct and market integrity risk, including market abuse, personal account dealing, and consumer protection.
• Proven experience executing audits end to end, including planning, fieldwork, and reporting.
• Ability to assess control design and operating effectiveness within complex organizations.
• Experience communicating findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Leadership experience managing audit workstreams and engagement teams.
• Ability to operate across multiple time zones and partner with globally distributed compliance, risk, and audit teams.
• Ability to use generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight while improving workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Nice to Haves

• CAMS, CIA, CFE, or equivalent certification.
• Familiarity with crypto, fintech, or digital asset financial crime typologies.
• Familiarity with AuditBoard or Workiva.

Compensation & Benefits

• Payward may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of the hiring process.