AVP, Audit Manager - Professional Practices

Job Description:

Role Summary/Purpose:

What are you working forward to?

This position reports into the VP of Professional Practices. The incumbent is primarily responsible for the execution of support activities related to the Internal Audit (IA) Professional Practices Group (PPG), including monitoring team operations (e.g., plan status, budget to actuals),  issue reporting, supporting audit methodology and templates, and ad hoc data analysis.

Our Way of Working

We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility. At Synchrony, our way of working allows you to have the option to work from home, near one of our Hubs or come into one of our offices. Occasionally you may be required to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as business or team meetings, training and culture events.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Participate as a key team member on key IA PPG activities which support team and department goals and objectives

• Develop materials for IA operating reporting meetings (e.g., audit plan status, budget to actuals, scheduling/resourcing, and issue status).  Work with audit VPs on action items and summarize status for Audit Senior Leadership Team.

• Develop materials for IA issue reporting, including key audit issue metrics and summarizing past due audit issues.

• Prepare quarterly IA key metrics related to audit plan status and issues.

• Perform Quality Reviews of audit reports prior to Audit Senior Leadership Team/CAE. 

• Assist audit teams with maintaining audit systems and dashboard tools.

• Assist audit teams in audit issue validation activities and documenting validation tests

• Collaborate with the IA Data Analytics team on maintaining IA reporting dashboards.  Identify opportunities for enhanced reporting to elevate IA’s operating processes and lead design and implementation of dashboards.  Perform detailed testing over new dashboard reporting.

• Create and perform data analysis relating to audit issues and root cause. Assist with thematic issue reporting for Audit Committee and Executive Issues Reporting

• Partner with IA methodology team to update audit methodology documents including job aids and templates relating to issue reporting and validation

• Support the audit teams on questions related to audit methodology, issue validation procedures, procedures, and tools

• Coordinate with 1st and 2nd Line of Defense on audit issues reporting

• In support of PPG reporting activities, obtain, review, and validate data and prepare data for use in various department reporting, using various tools including SAS, ACL, or Excel

• Assist in the creation of department reporting, in PowerPoint or Tableau, for use in management reporting, board reporting, or regulatory reporting

• Support continuous process improvement by identifying needs and opportunities, champions common audit process approaches, and recommends process changes to maintain the highest quality standards

• Assist in the execution of Quality Assurance reviews, including testing utilizing sampling or data analytics techniques

• Perform work in accordance with audit methodology and applicable standards, defined plans, budgets, and schedules during the validation process

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or an equivalent related field and 2+ years’ experience in audit, financial services, or a related field

• Basic level experience with data analysis and data analytics tools, such as Excel, SAS, Tableau

• Demonstrate verbal and written ability to articulate the business objectives, business risk, processes, and controls

• In lieu of a relevant Bachelor’s degree, 7 years’ experience in audit, financial services, or a related field

• You currently hold, or are actively pursuing a CPA, CIA, or other relevant professional designation/association

Desired Characteristics:

• Minimum 2 - 5+ years combined internal audit, public accounting, regulatory (e.g., FRB, OCC, FDIC, etc.) or relevant banking industry experience

• Demonstrates strong  knowledge and use in data analysis, reporting, or testing practices

• Understands regulatory, accounting, financial industry rela