Director Internal Audit

About the role

Internal Audit helps bring Target’s purpose to life by providing independent assurance and risk insights that matter to a broad group of stakeholders, including the Audit & Risk Committee, executive leaders, business owners, support functions, and risk-focused partners across the enterprise. Your team and portfolio strategy will align with Internal Audit’s broader strategy, objectives, and key results.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction for your team and lead an assigned portfolio of enterprise risks, business capabilities, assurance activities, and stakeholder relationships.
• Develop a forward-looking audit plan and continuously evolving pipeline for your assigned portfolio, informed by Target’s strategic, business, technology, data, and compliance objectives.
• Lead risk-based assurance and advisory work across your assigned portfolio and contribute to prioritization across the total Internal Audit Plan.
• Understand current, emerging, internal, and external risks; make enterprise-minded prioritization recommendations; evaluate governance, risk management, process, technology, data, and control capabilities; and communicate practical advice and timely insights that strengthen Target’s risk management capabilities, business results, and resiliency.
• Provide clear direction and coaching to build high-performing teams that deliver quality work, exercise strong judgment, and communicate with impact.
• Set expectations, hold team members accountable, support meaningful development, and build future-ready capabilities across audit judgment, risk acumen, business fluency, digital and data confidence, stakeholder partnership, curiosity, and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience; relevant professional certifications preferred depending on portfolio, such as CPA, CIA, CISA, CISM, CRISC, PMP, data/analytics, AI, cyber, or other risk-related credentials
• 10+ years of relevant audit, risk, compliance, finance, operations, retail/business, product, data, technology, cyber, or related experience
• Strong knowledge of internal audit and enterprise risk management concepts, including risk assessment and prioritization, governance, process and internal controls, root cause analysis, issue remediation, and assurance or advisory delivery
• Demonstrated ability to lead a risk-based assurance strategy, develop a forward-looking audit pipeline, prioritize work across evolving risks, and influence enterprise-minded decisions that strengthen business outcomes and resiliency
• Strong professional judgment, critical thinking, professional skepticism, curiosity, courage, and ability to make sound decisions in ambiguity while preserving independence, objectivity, and quality
• Demonstrated executive communication, storytelling, stakeholder partnership, and influencing skills, including the ability to communicate complex risk and control topics clearly and actionably
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop team members through ambiguity and change while fostering belonging, inclusive and caring leadership, accountability, and future-ready skills, behaviors, and mindsets
• Experience in applying or leading the use of data, analytics, visualization, automation, GenAI, and other technology-enabled capabilities to solve business problems.

Qualifications

• None specified

Skills

• None specified

Benefits

Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

Pay

The pay range is $135,000.00 - $243,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications.

Schedule

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