Senior Manager - Operations Audit

About the role

The Senior Manager – Operations Audit leads a portfolio of complex operational audits and strategic initiatives, ensuring risk coverage, governance effectiveness, and operational excellence across the organization.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and oversee multiple concurrent operational audit engagements across different business functions.
• Develop strategic audit plans aligned with organizational objectives and risk priorities.
• Ensure audit engagements adhere to internal audit methodology, timelines, and quality standards.
• Supervise and review audit reports, guaranteeing accuracy, clarity, and actionable recommendations.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with senior management to promote risk awareness and control accountability.
• Mentor and coach audit staff, providing technical and professional development guidance.
• Contribute to the internal audit department’s strategic planning, including the annual risk‑based audit plan.
• Collaborate with governance, risk, and compliance teams to enhance integrated assurance efforts.
• Drive continuous improvement of audit processes and methodologies.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, engineering or a related field.
• Professional certification such as CIA, CISA or Lean Six Sigma; master’s degree preferred.
• Advanced understanding of internal audit practices, risk assessment, control evaluation and assurance reporting.
• Proven ability to manage large‑scale audit engagements and quality assurance reviews.
• Experience evaluating operational KPIs and identifying opportunities for optimization and automation.
• Strong knowledge of advanced process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma).

Required skills

• Data analytics
• Audit software tools
• Lean Six Sigma methodology