Internal Audit Manager

Core Responsibilities

• Oversee execution of audit testing across offshore workstreams.
• Ensure audit workpapers meet firm methodology and documentation standards.
• Coordinate engagement activities with onshore engagement managers and directors.
• Review testing outcomes and validate supporting evidence.
• Support the articulation and refinement of audit observations and findings.
• Monitor progress of offshore workstreams across engagements.
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Compile draft internal audit reports in accordance with the firms delivery methodology and quality standards, overlaying specific client expectations with respect to format/ style of reporting
• Escalate issues appropriately and support resolution with engagement leadership.
• Support training, development, and performance management of offshore team members.

Capability Expectations

Engagement Delivery Oversight

• Oversees multiple workstreams across engagements while maintaining delivery quality and timelines.

Quality Assurance

• Ensures audit workpapers and testing outputs meet firm methodological and documentation standards.

Technical Expertise

• Demonstrates strong understanding of internal audit methodology, risk assessment, and control frameworks.

Global Delivery Coordination

• Coordinates offshore delivery within a distributed engagement model.
• Ensures effective collaboration between offshore and onshore teams operating across time zones.

Communication & Leadership

• Demonstrates strong written and spoken English communication capability suitable for professional services environments.
• Communicates clearly with engagement leadership regarding progress, risks, and deliverables.

Remote Delivery Discipline

• Ensures structured communication and working practices across distributed teams.
• Maintains sufficient working-hour overlap with onshore engagement leadership to support timely coordination and issue resolution.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk, or related discipline.
• Typically 7+ years’ experience in internal audit, risk advisory, or professional services.
• Professional certification such as CIA, CPA, ACCA, or CISA strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of internal audit methodologies and control frameworks.
• Experience supervising audit teams and reviewing engagement deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication capability suitable for collaboration with international engagement teams.
• Demonstrated experience working within global delivery or distributed engagement models.
• Availability to maintain scheduled working-hour overlap with Irish business hours to support engagement coordination.