Audit and Exam Program Manager
Skills
About the Role
You will design and manage a scalable, risk-based audit and exam program for a multi-jurisdictional regulated company. You will translate ambiguous regulatory expectations into clear, executable workstreams with ownership, timelines, and success criteria. You will lead day-to-day delivery of internal audits and regulatory exams, track issues and action plans, enforce evidence and documentation standards, synthesize engagement results into executive-ready updates, and run post-engagement retrospectives to convert learnings into improved processes, tools, and training.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in internal audit, risk, compliance, or regulatory assurance within financial services or a similarly regulated environment
- Meaningful exposure to working with regulators (e.g., OCC, Fed)
- Familiarity with audit and control frameworks such as SOC 1 and SOC 2 and the three-lines-of-defense model
- Proven program and stakeholder management skills to manage multiple engagements and cross-functional teams
- Ability to operate in ambiguous, evolving environments and innovate processes, tools, or programs
- Within commuting distance to Manhattan
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve the audit and exam framework
- Design and maintain multi-year audit and exam strategies, playbooks, templates, and tools
- Translate regulatory expectations into clear, executable workstreams with ownership and timelines
- Lead day-to-day management and end-to-end delivery of internal audits and regulatory exams
- Maintain a real-time portfolio view of engagements and surface dependencies and resourcing needs
- Track issues and action plans and ensure durable remediations are implemented
- Enforce high evidence and documentation standards
- Synthesize engagement results into executive-ready updates
- Run post-engagement retrospectives and convert learnings into process and tooling changes
Benefits
- Equity
- 10% annual bonus