Senior Director, Internal Audit – Enterprise & Corporate Domains

Audit Strategy, Risk Assessment, Plan Development and Activation

• Establish credibility and trust with senior management and audit stakeholders, providing assurance, advice, insight, and foresight to strengthen control processes, decision-making, and ability to achieve objectives.
• Leverage industry leading practices, trends, emerging and top risk insights; strategic priorities; data analysis; internal risk and control environment indicators; and stakeholder input to inform the audit risk assessment, plan, and engagement strategy for enterprise and corporate domains.
• Serve as a "go-to" strategic resource for leadership when requesting Internal Audit assurance or advisory services to inform decision-making related to new business challenges, program design or implementation, emerging risks, control optimization, or strategic opportunities.
• Own the identification, prioritization, and risk-based scoping of audit engagements.
• Develop and activate engagement-specific strategies that achieve highest leverage of co-source specialists and fit-for-purpose data and AI-enabled audit techniques to maximize return on audit services.
• Design and execute strategic projects with minimal direction, including defining related objectives and key results, generating awareness and cross-functional buy-in, reimagining workflows, designing solutions, and achieving implementation.
• Provide early insight on execution risk as new products, strategies, technology, models, and organizational changes are introduced.
• Develop, manage, and generate return from AI and agentic capabilities that deepen coverage, improve signal quality, and proactively surface emerging issues.
• Collaborate with peers across the business, risk and compliance functions to support alignment in shared frameworks, processes, tools, and data.
• Stay abreast of regulatory changes, industry trends, competitive and risk landscape, and leading audit practices.

Audit Execution and Performance Management

• Oversee the audit lifecycle from planning through testing and reporting, ensuring quality and alignment with established methodologies and audit standards.
• Manage teams across multiple, concurrent audit engagements to drive operational rigor and timely delivery against planned milestones and stakeholder commitments.
• Drive high-quality audit judgments, issue articulation, and root-cause analysis that resonates with senior business leaders.
• Ensure audit findings are communicated with clarity of the observed condition, assessment criteria, root cause, and the realized and potential impact.
• Leverage an enterprise-first and business-enablement mindset to recommend solutions that optimize risk mitigation, achievement of objectives, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability for where risk is shifting, not just where it has materialized.
• Collaborate with management to define outcome-based commitments and action plans that address root cause and align to achievement of the outcome and acceptance criteria.
• Drive awareness and alignment across stakeholders with competing priorities, navigating organizational complexity to influence accountability and prioritization.
• Oversee issue follow-up and validation testing to prevent alignment drift over the course of corrective action implementation.
• Analyze operational and value-based performance metrics; translate insights into actionable improvement initiatives.

Management Reporting, Executive/Board Reporting

• Prepare and present clear, concise, and insightful audit reports to senior management and the Audit Committee.
• Own the preparation, quality, and impact of audit committee materials for your domain coverage.
• Demonstrate customer centricity, executive presence, and effective storytelling to optimize communication channels, cadence, content, and delivery to meet the needs of multiple stakeholder groups.

Team Leadership and Development

• Oversee, coach, and provide performance feedback to teams of co-sourced Directors, managers, associates, integrated specialists, and subject-matter experts.
• Cultivate an environment of trust, collaboration, and professional courage; foster a culture of curiosity, rigor, adaptability, and enterprise mindset.
• Actively develop insurance-domain fluency, judgment, and executive presence within the team.
• Maintain consistent quality, vision, and brand alignment across co-sourced teams and subject-matter specialists that can vary by engagement.
• Take ownership and accountability for team outcomes and address root causes for improvement opportunities and stakeholder needs.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive internal audit or risk management experience with a material portion of experience in financial services, preferably insurance.
• 10+ years of people management experience, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams.
• Comprehensive understanding of the Global Internal Audit Standards, leading practices, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
• Deep expertise in enterprise and corporate functions, governance, risk, and compliance.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to establish credibility and trust with senior executives, regulators, and external auditors.
• Proven ability to influence risk-informed decision-making and effectuate change across all levels of the organization.
• Extensive experience translating complex results into clear executive-ready materials, compelling narratives, and actionable recommendations.
• Experience managing a hybrid or co-sourced Internal Audit function and developing and leading high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated success in leading through transformation and achieving cross-functional implementation, adoption, and expected outcomes.
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Certified Internal Auditor® designation preferred.