Associate Director Internal Audit

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

Driving continuous improvement is what we are all about and you will support our efforts through providing objective evaluations of our processes to make us better. You'll gain exposure to the diverse aspects of our business through collaborating with different business leaders related to our controls, processes, and systems. The work you perform as an Associate Director is critical to reducing risk and providing solutions that protect our company, our employees and our shareholders.

As an Associate Director, you'll play a pivotal role in executing and managing audit projects, coaching staff, conducting training, assisting with daily assignments, and overseeing and incorporating industry expertise into our internal audit frameworks. You'll also be responsible for improving testing methodologies, ensuring consistency in evidence standards, and promoting operational skills within the team.

• Leading and developing a team, including counseling managers and staff throughout their audit careers, particularly during placement and identifying career opportunities.

• Overseeing the end-to-end process of complex audits to ensure compliance with internal audit commitments and methodologies, development of junior staff, quality review of audit work papers, proper vetting of observations, and effective communication of audit results to executive management.

• Applying problem-solving and critical thinking skills to identify internal control deficiencies, evaluate risk implications, draw conclusions, and advise management accordingly. Assist in executing corrective recommendations to ensure successful remediation.

• Developing annual audit plans within achievable timelines and travel budgets, aligning with emerging risks.

• Providing proactive solutions to challenges and roadblocks that impact audit commitments, collaborating with audit Senior Directors, audit Directors and business leadership.

• Participating actively in audit efficiency projects, driving departmental goal completion and ensuring team growth.

• Enhancing knowledge and experience by working with diverse emerging technologies, platforms, applications, tools, and utilities.

You have outstanding communication and project management skills, and are able to work with peers and management at all levels. You're a strong critical thinker, and demonstrate a solid understanding of internal audit principles, risk management frameworks, and relevant industry regulations. You enjoy digging into the details and coming up with recommendations that will have a huge impact.

As a strong team player, you excel at building trust and rapport with stakeholders at all levels. Your collaborative approach and influential nature enable you to drive positive change within an organization.

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Proven leadership skills demonstrating strong judgment, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.

• Experience leading discussions and establishing rapport, trust and confidence with executive leaders and business stakeholders.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to be able to summarize audit results and participate in communicating audit findings to the appropriate level of senior management.

• Strong project management skills to manage and conduct multiple audits simultaneously from beginning to end.

• Ability to develop talent, inspire career growth, and motivate team members at all levels.

• Willingness and travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

• Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., MBA, MS in Accounting)

• Prior work experience in a Public Accounting environment specializing in operational audit.

• Professional certification such as CPA, CIA, CISA, or CISSP.

• Experience with performing and/or reviewing data queries and visualizations using SQL, Google Data Studio, Tableau, Alteryx, Qlik, or similar tools.

• Experience with performing and/or reviewing Information Technology General Controls (ITGC) testing.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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