Manager, Internal Audit Transformation & Operations

Thomson Reuters
New York, NY
Category Operations
Job Description
Role Overview

The Manager, Internal Audit Transformation & Operations will serve as the execution lead for the Internal Audit transformation program, ensuring automation, analytics, and AI are embedded into audit, forensics, and controls workflows at pace and scale. This role is critical to ensuring scope, dependencies, and team capacity are managed.

What You Will Do

The Manager will champion agile delivery and transformation execution, enforce scope discipline, manage pilot sequencing and cross-functional dependencies, remove blockers, and coach the IA team on agile practices and continuous improvement.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This individual will be a change agent committed to building a career within the Internal Audit function across its three domains, with a strong background as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or similar delivery leadership role in a transformation program.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience (7+ years) in risk consulting, internal audit, governance, risk, or compliance environments
  • Strong background as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or similar delivery leadership role in a transformation program
  • Proven track record in managing complex, multi-workstream programs with dependencies across technology, business, and compliance teams
  • Experience working with distributed teams across time zones and geographies
  • Demonstrated excellence in facilitation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder communication
  • Strong data literacy; comfort using dashboards, burndown charts, and metrics to drive decision-making
  • Genuine curiosity about continuous improvement and passion for removing obstacles for delivery teams
  • Comfort in ambiguity; ability to adapt methodology and ceremonies as the transformation evolves and learns
  • Familiarity with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) technologies and platforms; experience with enterprise data infrastructure (data warehouses, analytics platforms, automation tools) is valuable
  • Familiarity with audit, forensics, SOX/ICFR testing, controls, or risk management domains is valuable; willingness to rapidly develop expertise across all three IA domains is essential

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Flexible vacation
  • Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
  • Access to the Headspace app
  • Retirement savings
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Employee incentive programs
  • Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
  • Two paid volunteer days off annually
  • Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
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