Hybrid Senior Audit Manager – Professional Practices, Audit Planning and Methodology

at USAA

• Job title: Senior Audit Manager – Professional Practices, Audit Planning and Methodology
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $143,320 - $273,930 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Charlotte, United States

About the role

• Senior Audit Manager managing complex audit engagements at USAA. Leading audit teams and ensuring compliance with financial regulations in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage audit engagements, varying in complexity, and often participates in complex, cross-functional risk-based assurance and advisory engagements driving quality of audit work.
• May lead engagements as Auditor-In-Charge (AIC).
• Maintains knowledge of financial services regulations and effectively responds and interacts with regulators.
• Provides oversight to multiple audit engagements and participates in review of engagement planning, fieldwork and reporting.
• Manages strategic initiatives and assists with the development and implementation of a risk-based audit plan.
• Analyzes issues, establish collaborative client relationships, and proactively work with client management to assess risk and improve internal controls.
• Adheres to the Institute of Internal Auditors' International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards) and Code of Ethics.
• Influences business and clients across the enterprise regarding effective internal controls and mitigating risks across the full Enterprise taxonomy.
• Manages audit engagement-related efforts and assignments of staff with varying degrees of expertise and experience when conducting engagements.
• Independently prepares, reviews, and leads continuous monitoring and advisory activities, special reviews and investigations.
• Ensures assigned audit engagements are completed objectively, professionally, timely and in accordance with corporate and industry audit standards.
• Approves the engagement risk and control matrix and scope of the audit for final review and approval by Audit Leadership.
• Proactively identifies control weaknesses and opportunities for improvement in the current operating environment providing recommendations for corrective action.
• Drafts the related audit issues and audit reports for issuance to respective client leadership conducting follow-up activities.
• Responsible for quality of audit reviews with final signoff of work papers; proposes and/or recommends updates to the universe risk assessment of the entity based on audit results.
• Leads team activities and provides feedback to the team on audit activities related to planning and scoping, testing and sampling methodology and testing conclusions that demonstrate critical thinking ability.
• Builds and enhances client relationships across the organization for areas of responsibility helping to drive strategic objectives with the business.
• Communicates effectively with business/clients to include delivering both risk-based and difficult messages.
• Provides recommendations on staffing assignments to audit leadership and guidance to staff members.
• Provides coaching and guidance to other auditors ensuring timeliness and quality of audit engagement deliverables.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or relevant field such as Finance, Accounting, Business, or Information Technology.
• Four additional years of related experience beyond minimum required may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• 8 years of audit, financial, insurance, banking, information technology or related business and/or leadership experience.
• Experience performing internal audits, external audits, or applying audit, risk, or compliance acumen in a complex operational and regulatory environment.
• Broad and comprehensive experience in Audit theory, internal audit principles with demonstrated experience in audit examining, analyzing, assessing, and drawing conclusions from audit work.
• Demonstrated experience effectively communicating and challenging Controls with business partners and influencing business outcomes.
• Understanding of risks and internal controls and the ability to evaluate and determine adequacy and efficiency of controls.
• Experience in a support role, mentoring, and providing feedback to audit team members throughout the audit.
• Experience in overseeing work with both internal and external partners in a highly collaborative environment.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and knowledge of data analysis tools and techniques and decision-making abilities.
• Demonstrated experience in highly dynamic environment undergoing change; ability to deal with competing priorities.

Benefits

• comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k)
• pension
• life insurance
• parental benefits
• adoption assistance
• paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
• various wellness programs
• career path planning and continuing education