Senior Audit Project Manager

Corporate Audit Services Senior Audit Project Manager

U.S. Bancorp Corporate Audit Services (CAS) is seeking a strong candidate to join our growing team of audit professionals within the Digital, Technology and Operations team. This role will support audit coverage of the Wealth Management, Investment Advisory Services and Trust Operations. Operations provides direct support to Consumer and Business Banking, Payment Services, and Wealth Management and Investment Services business lines, and centralized support for commercial lending, electronic payments, print, cash and check services, and call center activities.

The Corporate Audit Services Senior Audit Project Manager is primarily responsible for supervising staff in the completion of audit engagements with minimal supervision from managers, however there are no direct reports. The Senior Audit Project Manager is a subject matter expert in a particular topic, helping to drive the audit strategy and influence the business line's understanding of risk mitigation, and may support multiple complex and / or horizontal audit engagements covering related topics. The Senior Audit Project Manager is expected to handle complex tasks autonomously, monitor progress of audit engagements against plan and schedule, assess work performed by the audit engagement team, and provide coaching and on-the-job training for team members to ensure engagements are completed in conformance with internal audit policies and procedures.

Primary Responsibilities :

1. Monitor and engage in Operations transformation initiatives, including collaboration with other CAS teams / subject matter experts

2. Expand use of data analytics by the Operations audit team

3. Supervising audit staff in the completion of audit engagements, ensuring the highest quality work delivered timely. Supervision includes :

• Assessing work performed by staff by providing coaching notes that are relevant to the scope, accuracy and completeness of work performed.
• Performing sufficient reviews to ensure work contains relevant facts to support audit scope and conclusions and adhere to internal audit policies and procedures.
• Reviewing issues to ensure potential exposures and significance are included, root causes are identified, and operationally effective and cost-effective actions to address those causes are developed into appropriate recommendations.

4. Completing or assisting managers in planning audit engagements. Includes identifying and analyzing business processes, key risks and critical controls; interviewing auditees; determining audit scope; evaluating control design adequacy; and developing audit programs which provide sufficient guidance for testing control performance effectiveness and making evaluations which effectively achieve audit objectives.

5. Assisting the managers in reporting and wrap-up phases of audits. Includes appropriate disposition of issues and drafting audit reports which include issues.

6. Monitoring progress of audit engagements against plan and schedule. Includes making necessary adjustments and promptly completing work paper reviews on a timely basis to ensure all issues are identified and dispositioned prior to report draft issuance.

7. Providing on-the-job training for staff. Includes business knowledge of products, services, and delivery systems; company policies and procedures; applicable laws and regulations; and formal / informal control frameworks.

8. Collaborating across the three lines of defense regarding business processes, risks, and controls. Coordinating audit activities by integrating other internal audit subject matter teams (product / service, technology, compliance, financial crimes, etc.) to ensure appropriate and efficient coverage of the business products, services, and processes. Managing the team's workload to assist other audit teams when resources are needed for areas of higher risk.

9. Continuous Monitoring for responsible areas

10. Performing other duties as requested by management.

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Skills / Experience