Internal Audit Manager
About this role
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.
Company at a glance
In the US, Grant Thornton LLP and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) practice as an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable law, regulations and professional standards. Grant Thornton LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients, and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business consulting services to their clients. Grant Thornton Advisors LLC and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.
With a unified, local presence across several countries – including the U.S., Ireland, and others, our platform represents a community of 18,000+ problem solvers, relationship builders, and quality-driven industry specialists. Serving clients across 16 distinct industries, we believe how we serve matters as much as what we do. Learn how we go beyond the expectations of business at GT.com.
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