Senior Manager - Internal Audit Operations

We’re all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. As a Senior Manager – Internal Audit Operations, you'll play a critical role in enabling the success of our internal audit function. You'll lead operational planning and delivery, ensuring audit activities are effectively coordinated, governed and resourced to provide strong assurance outcomes for leadership, committees and boards.

You'll be responsible for driving audit strategy execution, overseeing reporting and quality assurance activities, leading audit operations, and supporting a culture of continuous improvement. Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, you'll help ensure the audit function remains efficient, effective and aligned to evolving business, regulatory and industry expectations.

Internal Audit is entering an exciting period of growth, with several new roles being created to support the continued development of the function. Joining now offers the opportunity to help shape a growing team, contribute to meaningful work, and be part of the function's future success.

This role is a permanent opportunity and is based in Brisbane or Sydney.

Day to day, you'll:

• Lead the development and execution of the Internal Audit strategy, annual audit plan and audit methodology.
• Oversee operational delivery of the audit plan, including scheduling, resource management, progress tracking and dependency management.
• Support audit engagement delivery, managing risks, timelines, quality outcomes and co-sourced resources.
• Lead the preparation of high-quality reporting for management, executive leadership, committees and boards.
• Oversee audit quality assurance programs, issue management and remediation tracking activities.
• Maintain audit dashboards, registers and reporting packs that provide visibility of audit performance and outcomes.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team while building capability across the function.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in audit methodologies, tools, data usage and ways of working.

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

• You hold a bachelor's degree in Business, Law, Information Technology or a related discipline.
• Your experience includes audit, risk management or assurance leadership within a complex environment.
• You'll bring strong knowledge of audit standards, risk frameworks and regulatory requirements, including APRA and ASIC environments.
• You're experienced in operational planning, workflow management and reporting within a professional services or assurance function.
• You have demonstrated success preparing papers and presenting to boards and committees.
• Your analytical skills enable you to identify themes, interpret data and provide actionable business and risk insights.
• You'll have a proven track record leading, coaching and developing high-performing teams.
• You're ideally experienced in financial services and may hold professional certifications such as CA, CPA or CIA.