If you enjoy turning standards into practical, usable guidance, this role offers the chance to shape how audits are planned, executed, and reported end-to-end. You’ll partner closely with audit teams, Quality Assurance, and key risk/control stakeholders to keep our methodology current, clear, and consistently applied—while continuously improving how we work.
As an Audit Methodology Manager in Internal Audit Professional Practices, you will set, maintain, and continuously improve the Internal Audit methodology, policies, procedures, and governance framework that guide the audit lifecycle end-to-end. You will translate audit standards, regulatory expectations, and internal governance into practical methodology, templates, and tools, while enabling consistent planning, testing, documentation, and reporting across the department.
Job Responsibilities
- Manage audit methodology policies, procedures, guidance, and job aids by translating regulatory expectations, industry standards, and internal priorities into updates and enhancements.
- Advise audit teams on methodology interpretation and practical application across the audit lifecycle.
- Drive methodology governance and change management by drafting proposals, coordinating stakeholder review, managing approvals, and leading release communications.
- Develop and deliver training to promote adoption and consistent execution across the department.
- Coordinate responses to internal/external inquiries and information requests related to methodology alignment with standards (e.g., regulators, Quality Assurance, Controls).
- Lead methodology workstreams aligned to departmental and firmwide priorities, translating objectives into methodology enhancements, communications, and training.
- Identify and advance simplification, automation, and standardization opportunities across the methodology space.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Relevant experience in Internal Audit, audit methodology/professional practices, risk management, compliance, or a related control function.
- Strong working knowledge of Internal Audit standards and practices (e.g., IIA Standards) and applicable regulatory expectations.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including comfort presenting to senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated project, governance, and change-management capability with strong attention to detail and sound risk-based judgment.
- Ability to work independently, problem-solve, and influence stakeholders with minimal oversight.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and common, approved AI tools.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Advanced degree.
- Experience supporting or leading methodology governance within a large financial institution or professional services environment.
- Proficiency in data analysis and comfort working with metrics (e.g., dashboards).
- Relevant certification (e.g., CIA, CPA, CSIA).