Internal Audit Manager

Responsibilities

Operational & Integration Audit Leadership

• Lead risk-based operational audits across governance, regulatory, financial, and operational processes.
• Lead post-acquisition integration audits, including readiness, entity onboarding, and control design and operating effectiveness.
• Assess integration and change risks across governance, regulatory licensing, change-of-control conditions, finance and operations, data migration, key-person retention, conduct, and culture.
• Perform risk assessments and prioritize audit coverage across the audit plan and acquisition pipeline.
• Direct co-sourced subject-matter experts while retaining Internal Audit ownership of judgments and conclusions.
• Apply generative AI, agentic workflows, and data analytics across the audit lifecycle with human oversight.

Engagement & Issue Management

• Lead multiple audit engagements concurrently, managing planning, fieldwork, and reporting end to end.
• Document findings, control gaps, root causes, workpapers, and reports.
• Track and validate remediation of identified issues and escalate delays or gaps.
• Improve audit methodologies and frameworks and ensure conformance with the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and quality-assurance requirements.
• Lead engagement teams, coordinate co-sourced specialists, and mentor junior auditors.

Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting

• Partner with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Finance, Engineering, and other stakeholders to communicate audit results and advise on control improvements while maintaining independence.
• Monitor the audit plan, acquisition pipeline, and evolving regulatory expectations across relevant jurisdictions.
• Coordinate coverage with Internal Audit managers and co-sourced specialists.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in internal audit, risk management, or regulatory examination within financial services, fintech, or crypto.
• Strong generalist audit background, with experience planning and leading audits across business, financial, operational, and regulatory processes.
• Experience auditing complex, regulated environments.
• Multi-jurisdiction experience, ideally with globally distributed teams.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar business models quickly and direct specialist support where needed.
• Experience communicating findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including boards or audit committees.
• Leadership experience managing audit workstreams, engagement teams, and co-sourced specialists.
• Ability to work across multiple time zones with globally distributed teams.
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight and a focus on workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Nice-to-Haves

• CIA, CISA, CAMS, CFE, or equivalent certification.
• M&A or integration audit, or transaction diligence, experience.
• Familiarity with crypto, fintech, or digital-asset business models.

Compensation

• Annual salary: $83,400–$166,800.