Internal Audit Manager

Hybrid schedule - 3x/week onsite in Davidson NC

Contract to hire

Position Summary

The Manager, Internal Audit supports the Director, Internal Audit in governance, risk management, internal control, and assurance objectives. This role helps execute a comprehensive, risk-based internal audit program that provides independent and objective assurance over financial, operational, compliance, technology, cybersecurity, and Sarbanes-Oxley control risks across the enterprise. The Manager leads and manages audit and advisory engagements, supports SOX compliance and external auditor reliance activities, evaluates the design and operating effectiveness of key controls, and provides practical recommendations to strengthen business processes, control performance, accountability, and operational effectiveness.

The role also supervises internal audit associates and co-sourced resources to ensure work is completed with quality, consistency, professional skepticism, and alignment with Internal Audit methodologies and professional standards.

• Assist in the development and execution of the annual risk-based Internal Audit Plan, including consideration of strategic, operational, financial, compliance, technology, cybersecurity, transformation, vendor, fraud, and emerging risks.
• Conduct enterprise, functional, process-level, and project-specific risk assessments to identify audit priorities and determine appropriate audit responses.
• Incorporate input from management, business process owners, prior audits, SOX testing results, external auditor observations, regulatory developments, and business transformation initiatives into audit planning activities.
• Recommend audit scope, timing, resource needs, and plan adjustments based on changing business priorities, control issues, and risk conditions.

• Lead and manage operational, financial, compliance, technology, and SOX audit engagements from planning through reporting and issue follow-up.
• Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of governance processes, risk management practices, internal controls, policies, procedures, and management monitoring activities.
• Assess compliance with Company policies, applicable laws and regulations, accounting and control requirements, and relevant industry standards.
• Develop audit scopes, planning documents, risk and control matrices, testing strategies, walkthrough documentation, audit programs, work papers, and evidence requests.
• Review audit work papers and supporting documentation to ensure conclusions are accurate, complete, well-supported, and consistent with Internal Audit methodology.
• Prepare clear, practical, and well-supported audit reports that communicate risks, root causes, business impacts, ratings, recommendations, ownership, and remediation expectations.
• Present audit results, control observations, process improvement opportunities, and remediation status to management and, as needed, executive leadership.

• Support the company'sSOX compliance program, including scoping, walkthroughs, control design assessment, operating effectiveness testing, deficiency evaluation, remediation tracking, and management reporting.
• Lead Internal Audit testing activities designed to support external auditor reliance strategies and regulatory expectations.
• Coordinate with control owners, process owners, Finance, IT, and external auditors to align testing approaches, documentation standards, evidence requirements, timing, and audit quality expectations.
• Evaluate key controls supporting significant accounts, entity-level controls, IT general controls, application controls, and key business processes.
• Ensure Internal Audit work papers and testing documentation are accurate, complete, well-supported, and prepared to facilitate external auditor reliance.
• Monitor, validate, and document management’s remediation of control deficiencies and process improvement actions.
• Identify opportunities to reduce duplicate testing, rationalize controls, automate procedures, and improve audit efficiency while maintaining audit quality and professional standards.

• Supervise, coach, and develop internal audit associates through engagement oversight, technical guidance, performance feedback, and professional development support.
• Provide day-to-day direction to co-sourced resources and external service providers, including scope coordination, work review, quality expectations, and project status management.
• Promote a high-performance team environment grounded in accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, professional skepticism, and audit quality.
• Support recruiting, onboarding, succession planning, resource planning, and skill development activities for the Internal Audit department.

• Use data analytics, automation, continuous monitoring, and AI-enabled audit techniques to improve audit…