Audit Project Manager - Corporate Functions

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Job Description

The Corporate Audit Services (CAS) Audit Project Manager (APM) is primarily responsible for planning and conducting audit engagements, individually or as part of a team. As the lead auditor, the APM helps influence engagement scope with support from primary audit manager, performs internal audit procedures, and prepares audit reports. This individual may also be involved in other side projects, department initiatives, and other administrative audit activities.

Primary Responsibilities

* Supervising audit staff in the completion of audit engagements, ensuring the highest quality work delivered timely. Supervision includes:

* Assessing work performed by staff by providing coaching notes that are relevant to the scope, accuracy and completeness of work performed.

* Performing sufficient reviews to ensure work contains relevant facts to support audit scope and conclusions and adhere to internal audit policies and procedures.

* Reviewing issues to ensure potential exposures and significance are included, root causes are identified, and operationally effective and cost-effective actions to address those causes are developed into appropriate recommendations.

* Completing or assisting managers in planning audit engagements. Includes identifying and analyzing business processes, key risks and critical controls; interviewing auditees; determining audit scope; evaluating control design adequacy; and developing audit programs which provide sufficient guidance for testing control performance effectiveness and making evaluations which effectively achieve audit objectives.

* Assisting the managers in reporting and wrap-up phases of audits. Includes appropriate disposition of issues and drafting audit reports which include issues.

* Monitoring progress of audit engagements against plan and schedule. Includes making necessary adjustments and promptly completing work paper reviews on a timely basis to ensure all issues are identified and dispositioned prior to report draft issuance.

* Providing on-the-job training for staff. Includes business knowledge of products, services, and delivery systems; company policies and procedures; applicable laws and regulations; and formal/informal control frameworks.

* Collaborating across the three lines of defense regarding business processes, risks, and controls.

* Coordinating audit activities by integrating other internal audit subject matter teams (Information Technology, Anti-Money Laundering, Compliance, Risk Management, Treasury, etc.) to ensure appropriate and efficient coverage of the business products, services and processes.

* Managing the team's workload to assist other audit teams when resources are needed for areas of higher risk.

* Performing other duties as requested by management.

Preferred Skills/

Experience:

* Prior experience in the following areas is highly preferred: corporate real estate and procurement; marketing, analytics and customer experience; strategic financial initiatives, and public affairs and communications.

* Considerable knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, financial services, and regulatory trends that impact their assigned line of business

* Considerable understanding of the business line's operations, products/services, systems, and associated risks/ controls.

* Considerable knowledge of Risk/Compliance/ Audit competencies and ability to hold others accountable on individual projects.

* Advanced process facilitation, project management, and analytical skills for complex processes.

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* This role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

* Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

* Basic term and optional term life insurance

* Short-term and long-term disability

* Pregnancy disability and parental leave

* 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

* Paid vacation (from two to five weeks…