Audit - Senior Lead Auditor

Senior Lead Auditor

The Senior Lead Auditor is responsible for protecting organizational integrity by assisting with leading and conducting risk-based audits, ensuring regulatory compliance, evaluating and testing internal controls, and providing independent assurance to the Audit & Compliance Committee and Board of Directors. Reporting directly to the Senior Internal Audit Manager, this role collaborates closely with bank leadership and management to identify risks, refine processes, and deliver insights that boost efficiency and adherence to regulations.

The Senior Lead Auditor works with business leaders and their teams to coordinate, plan, execute, and communicate audit results, evaluating whether management controls are adequate and effective. This position may also support regulatory examinations, assist with risk and control issue validations, and issue monitoring and reporting. The Senior Lead Auditor offers independent guidance to bank management regarding internal controls and significant risk exposures, recommending constructive ways to reduce risks and improve internal controls.

• Assist with planning, leading, and executing audit engagements and operational reviews, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Play an active role in the execution and advancement of all phases of internal audit and issue validation engagements.
• Support presenting information to the Audit & Compliance Committee regarding condition and effectiveness of the bank’s internal controls and compliance management systems, which may include presenting audit reports or findings to the Audit & Compliance Committee.
• Assess the design and effectiveness of internal controls.
• Provide support, as assigned, to the Internal Control over Financial Reporting program, including risk assessments, testing coordination, issue validation, and coordination with external auditors.
• Assist with oversight of relationships with co-sourced and outsourced audit providers, ensuring quality, independence, and alignment with the bank’s risk profile and audit methodology.
• Ensure audit and regulatory issues are properly documented and reported timely.
• Identify conclusions and recommendations by communicating and drafting clear, actionable audit findings and reporting these results to senior management and the Audit & Compliance Committee as assigned.
• Contribute to and support enterprise risk assessments and control design improvements that identify risk areas and prioritize audit activities.
• Help lead and foster a culture of continuous improvement and professional development by remaining current on industry regulations, emerging risks, and best practices to strengthen the internal control environment.
• Monitor management response plans, remediation efforts, and assist with validation of issues to ensure timely resolution.
• Support the assessment of compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act, Identity Theft Red Flags, Trust, and other federal and state regulatory requirements as assigned.
• Assist with issue validations and other special projects and management engagements to ensure proper controls, risk management practices, and compliance procedures exist.
• Partner with bank leadership, external auditors, and cross-functional teams as needed and assigned.
• Assist with supporting regulatory examinations or other co-sourced internal audit engagement.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Demonstrates knowledge in internal control evaluation and testing, IT general and application controls, and risk and control frameworks such as SOX, COSO, NIST, and FFIEC.
• Excellent communication, critical thinking, and project management skills for leading audit engagements and teams,…