Sr Manager, Internal Audit - Business

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About the role

This role leads defined business audit portfolios, translating enterprise risk priorities into effective audit coverage and insights. It exercises judgment over scope, issue calibration, and escalation while ensuring consistent quality across multiple engagements. The role balances oversight, stakeholder influence, and selective hands-on involvement, while developing audit leaders and contributing to departmental advancement.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior point of contact for audit matters within assigned portfolios.
• Present results, risk themes, and insights to leadership.
• Translate audit outcomes into meaningful business and risk narratives.
• Manage and develop staff through coaching, performance management, and assignment alignment.
• Lead change management efforts by translating strategic priorities and direction from leadership into actionable guidance.
• Provide oversight across engagements to ensure quality, consistency, and methodological adherence.
• Review audit deliverables and challenge issue calibration, evidence sufficiency, and recommendations, including ensuring risks, root causes, and impacts are clearly supported and conclusions are sound.
• Own assigned portfolios or risk domains.
• Identify emerging risks, set engagement priorities, and oversee multiple concurrent audits.
• Approve scopes, workpapers, issue severity, and remediation expectations within delegated authority, escalating enterprise-level concerns.
• Synthesize portfolio-level insights and mentor audit leaders.
• Lead or support methodology improvements, analytics adoption, and other initiatives that enhance audit effectiveness and efficiency.
• Perform targeted hands-on audit work on complex or high-priority engagements while overseeing routine execution.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum seven years of experience in audit or equivalent required, preferably within financial services, P&C insurance, or external audit industry.
• Minimum three years of leadership experience preferred.

Skills

• Effective leadership skills.
• Ability to lead through change while operating in an agile and adaptable manner.
• Demonstrated analytical skills.
• Ability to think critically and work through ambiguity.
• Demonstrated written communication skills.
• Strong verbal communication and listening skills.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Ability to drive multiple projects to successful completion.
• Ability to work within tight timeframes and meet strict deadlines.

Schedule

Hybrid work environment combining the best of both worlds with at least three (3) days in office and up to two (2) days virtual for employees who live within fifty (50) miles of a Farmers corporate office. Applicants beyond fifty (50) miles may still be considered.

Pay

• CA Only: $129,075 - $219,780
• CO Only: $121,350 - $189,310
• HI/IL/MN/VT Only: $121,350 - $202,730
• MA Only: $121,350 - $202,730
• MD Only: $121,350 - $202,730
• DC/NJ/NY/OH Only: $121,350 - $219,780
• Albany County, NY/Cleveland, OH: $129,075 - $189,310
• WA Only: $121,350 - $230,375

Bonus opportunity based on company and individual performance.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Assistance

For more information, review "What we offer".