Manager, Audit Services (Remote - GA)

Employee Value Proposition (EVP): PROG is dedicated to providing people with opportunity; opportunity for inclusive collaboration, opportunity for innovation, and opportunity for development. 

WE ARE: A team of risk and assurance professionals dedicated to enhancing and protecting organizational value through risk-based audit and advisory services. We partner closely with the business to strengthen governance, risk management, and internal controls while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We are dedicated to creating a culture of belonging, inclusion, diversity, and equity in our teams and celebrate each individual contributions and uniqueness.  

YOU ARE: In this role, you will be accountable for the execution of the audit program and the delivery of high-quality, risk-based assurance and advisory services. You will lead and develop audit resources and oversee complex financial, operational, and compliance assurance and advisory engagements, including SOX control design and operating effectiveness assessments. You are expected to ensure consistent application of audit methodology and professional standards, identify and assess key risks and control gaps, and deliver practical, value-added recommendations. You will exercise sound professional judgment, proactively surface and frame risks, and build strong, collaborative relationships with business leaders while translating issues into clear business impact and actionable recommendations.

YOUR DAY-TO-DAY: 

• Manage and execute the risk-based audit plan in alignment with the annual audit plan

• Supervise and develop audit team members, including performance management, coaching, and formal review of work

• Oversee the planning, execution, and reporting of assurance and advisory engagements

• Perform and review engagement-level risk assessments, including fraud risk considerations, to identify key risks, controls, and improvement opportunities

• Coordinate and oversee the SOX audit program, including tests of design and operating effectiveness of key internal controls

• Partner with Financial Controls and business stakeholders to ensure effective coverage of business processes

• Collaborate with audit leadership to ensure risks are considered and develop an integrated audit approach, as appropriate

• Review and approve audit programs to ensure alignment with our audit methodology and recognized frameworks as applicable (e.g., COSO)

• Evaluate audit results, determine issue severity, assess root causes, and ensure practical, value-added recommendations

• Communicate engagement status, emerging risks, and audit results clearly and timely to management and audit leadership

• Coordinate with external auditors to support reliance on internal audit work, as appropriate

• Ensure audit engagements are completed in accordance with departmental quality standards, professional auditing standards, budgets, and timelines

• Support the annual audit risk assessment and development of the annual audit plan

• Prepare and review audit reports and present results to management

• Periodically communicate status and remediation progress of open audit issues to ERM stakeholders

• Contribute to Audit Committee materials and reporting, including open audit issue status

• Promote continuous improvement in audit methodology, tools, and the use of AI and data analytics

YOU’LL BRING: 

• 8+ years of audit (internal or external auditing) experience (public companies preferred) or equivalent Big 4 public accounting experience 

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or business

• Professional accounting or auditing designation (CIA, CPA)

• Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

• Experience with audit and analytics tools (e.g. AuditBoard, ACL, PowerBI, Access, SQL)

• Possess unquestionable personal and profession