Manager, Internal Audit Operations

Job Summary

This role enables the audit function through operational leadership, systems enablement, and portfolio level visibility. It ensures audit lifecycle resourcing and executive reporting operate efficiently and consistently across the organization. The role amplifies audit impact by improving processes, transparency, and data-driven decision making, including leading executive-level audit reporting (example, Audit Committee and Executive Committee) and advancing the use of data analytics, automation, and AI to enhance audit insights and delivery effectiveness.

Essential Job Functions

• Lead the end-to-end development and continuous enhancement of management, including leveraging data analytics to generate insights, identify themes and trends, and deliver value-added reporting for audit leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Cook up annual audit planning activities and quarterly refresh processes, including tracking updates, dependencies, and impacts to scope, timing, resourcing, and delivery, ensuring changes are consistently reflected across plans, systems, and stakeholder communications.
• Advance the use of data analytics, automation, and AI enabled capabilities to support audit delivery and strategic enhancements to the function.
• Oversee data analytics resources responsible for enabling data-driven audit execution.
• Support the audit functions professional practices activities, including methodology updates, alignment with IIA standards, quality assurance and improvement program activities, and incorporation of leading practices into audit guidance, tools, and templates.
• Own the administration and ongoing evolution of the audit management system, leveraging platform functionality and configuring the system to align with audit methodology, planning, reporting, and evolving departmental needs.
• Oversee audit execution operations across the portfolio, including planning timelines, key milestones, and resource scheduling, ensuring appropriate capacity allocation, workload balance, and proactive management of resource constraints.
• Provide end-to-end operational visibility, monitoring execution progress and data quality, and identifying and mitigating risks to delivery.

Education Requirements

• A High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• A Bachelors degree preferred.

Experience Requirements

• A minimum of seven years in internal audit or equivalent required, preferably with focus on audit operations, data analytics, methodology, quality assurance, or transformation.

Additional Qualifications

• Possesses strong product knowledge.
• Expertise in the audit lifecycle, methodology, reporting, insights generation, and IIA standards, complemented by strong technical data analytics capabilities (example, data extraction, transformation, and analysis tools) to enable data-driven audit insights.
• Possesses strong technical aptitude.
• Familiarity with audit software.
• Effective leadership skills.
• Ability to effectively lead through change while operating in an agile and adaptable manner.
• Demonstrated governance and operating model design experience.
• Demonstrated written communication skills.
• Demonstrated verbal communication and listening skills.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Effective interpersonal skills.

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience, qualifications and location.
• CA Only: $115,275 - $196,130
• CO Only: $108,375 - $169,070
• HI/IL/MN/VT Only: $108,375 - $181,060
• MA Only: $108,375 - $181,060
• MD Only: $108,375 - $181,060
• DC/NJ/NY/OH Only: $108,375 - $196,130
• Albany County, NY/Cleveland, OH: $115,275 - $169,070
• WA Only: $108,375 - $205,750
• Bonus Opportunity (based on Company and Individual Performance)
• 401(k)
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Assistance

Job Location(s)

• R_US - United States

Anticipated Application Deadline

At Farmers, the recruitment process is designed to ensure that we find the best talent to join our team. As part of this process, we typically close open positions within 8 to 21 days after posting. If you are interested in any of our open positions, we encourage you to submit your application promptly.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Farmers is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in any employer/employee relations based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military and veteran's status, or any other basis protected by applicable discrimination laws.