Senior Manager, Internal Audit Quality Assurance and Improvement

5 days ago


Foster City, California, United States Visa Full time
About the Role

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with a mission to connect the world through innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments networks. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Manager to join our Internal Audit team, specifically in the Quality Assurance and Improvement Program (QAIP) function.

Job Summary

The Senior Manager will be a key individual contributor to the QAIP function, responsible for managing the Internal Audit function's methodology, tools, and technology, as well as Quality Assurance and Improvement Program. The successful candidate will assist the team in executing the department's quality assurance program, ensuring audit activities adhere to internal policies and procedures and the Institute of Internal Audit (IIA) Standards.

Key Responsibilities
  • Quality Assurance Program Management: Assist the Director, Internal Audit Quality Assurance and VP of APQ in executing, maintaining, assessing, and refining the overall Internal Audit Quality Assurance and Improvement program.
  • Quality Reviews: Manage internal quality assurance reviews through a risk-based selection approach of audit files and other audit-related documentation to ensure review targets are met and adjust targets as appropriate to align with department goals/needs.
  • Quality Assurance Checklists: Assist in creating and maintaining quality assurance checklists that support the audit execution methodology to ensure adequate assessment against internal policies and procedures.
  • Quality Assurance Reviews of Audit Reports: Perform quality assurance reviews of audit reports and corresponding issue memos, audit engagement files, issue closures, and other elements of the Quality Assurance (QA) universe to assess adherence with internal policies and procedures.
  • Thematic QA Trends: Gather, analyze, prepare, and communicate thematic QA trends, including recommendations for improvement, using succinct and impactful presentations.
  • External Quality and Assessment Reviews: Assist with External Quality and Assessment Reviews and implementation of recommendations.
  • Self-Assessment Review: Assist in performing formal periodic self-assessment review of internal audit activities.
  • Policy and Methodology Initiatives: Assist in the preparation of communications for various internal constituents, as well as the Corporate Risk Committee, the Audit and Risk Committee of the Board of Directors, and external stakeholders.
Requirements
  • 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g., Master's, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD.
  • 6-8 years of internal audit experience, preferably with a large financial institution or consulting firm experience.
  • CIA, CPA, CISA, or other relevant professional certifications highly desirable.
  • Significant knowledge related to IIA Standards, including Quality Assurance Improvement requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Expert knowledge of the professional practice of internal auditing, ideally demonstrated by achievement of a relevant professional certification (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA, CRMA, etc.).
  • Strong analytical, organizational, and presentation skills.
  • Must have strong analytical and interpersonal skills in order to collaborate across teams effectively and efficiently, and the ability to effectively interact with and influence different functional groups at all levels of management.
  • Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills, including outstanding ability to summarize complex audit results and issues for succinct and impactful presentations for a wide range of internal and external executive constituents.
  • Experience evaluating controls associated with complex business processes.
  • High level of integrity.
  • Knowledge in using tools such as TeamMate, Tableau, Power BI highly preferred.
  • Ability to maintain attention to detail, prioritize work, and handle multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment.


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