Financial Services Internal Audit Manager

About this role

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description: What It Means to Be a Consultant at Crowe Consulting is a dynamic business focused on solving problems for our clients and serving our core markets through innovative solutions. As technology and AI continue to reshape the consulting landscape, we are looking for individuals who are curious, adaptable, and eager to learn. At Crowe, consultants are expected to build both technical and transferable skills, think critically, and use technology to solve real business problems. In this role, you will continuously learn, collaborate across teams, and explore how tools, including emerging AI capabilities, can improve efficiency, insights, and client outcomes.

In management at Crowe, you play a pivotal role in leading teams, guiding project execution, and deepening client relationships. You are expected to contribute to account planning, identify opportunities to add value, and ensure high-quality delivery. As your responsibilities expand, you take on broader account ownership, balancing project leadership with growing involvement in client strategy and solution development.

Success in this role comes from a growth mindset, strong communication skills, advanced critical thinking, and the ability to navigate new challenges with confidence.

About the Role Join our Financial Services Consulting practice and help organizations strengthen governance, manage risk, enhance internal controls, and navigate an increasingly complex regulatory environment.

As an Internal Audit Manager , you’ll work with banking and financial services clients on meaningful, high-impact engagements spanning internal audit, risk management, internal controls, and compliance. You’ll have the opportunity to lead client engagements, develop and mentor team members, build trusted relationships with client leaders, and recommend practical solutions that improve how organizations manage risk. This role is ideal for an experienced internal audit professional who enjoys solving complex problems, leading teams, and working directly with clients in an entrepreneurial and collaborative consulting environment.

What You’ll Do • Lead and deliver internal audit, risk management, and internal control engagements for banking and financial services clients. • Plan engagements and manage project teams, including reviewing workpapers and providing coaching, feedback, and guidance to team members. • Conduct and oversee fieldwork, evaluate processes and controls, and develop well-supported conclusions and recommendations. • Communicate findings and observations to client management and prepare clear, actionable reports and presentations. • Advise clients on opportunities to strengthen and optimize internal controls and risk management practices. • Help clients enhance and transform internal audit approaches, methodologies, and operating models. • Perform risk assessments and identify opportunities to improve governance, processes, controls, and compliance. • Manage multiple projects and workstreams while maintaining strong client service and quality standards. • Manage engagement scope, staffing, workplans, budgets, schedules, billing, and overall engagement economics to deliver high-quality work on time and on budget. • Build trusted client relationships and contribute ideas that create additional value for clients and the firm. • Develop and expand relationships with client executives, identify emerging needs, and lead or contribute to proposals, scoping, presentations, and other sales-pursuit activities. • Coach and develop professionals through timely feedback, performance guidance, and career-development support, while holding project teams accountable for their commitments. • Contribute to market and practice growth through thought leadership, professional associations, recruiting, knowledge sharing, and development of new or improved service offerings.

Basic Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree. • Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification • 5+ years of relevant experience in internal audit, internal controls assessment, and/or SOX 404 evaluation and testing, with experience serving organizations in the banking or financial services industry. • Experience managing projects and multiple concurrent workstreams and responsibilities. • Experience supervising, coaching, and reviewing the work of other professionals. • Strong understanding of internal control design and operating effectiveness. • Experience evaluating business processes, process flows, and flowcharts. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with clients and internal teams through interviews, meetings, presentations, reports, process narratives, and other formats. • Strong relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills. • Ability and willingness to travel as needed based on client and engagement requirements.

Preferred Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, or a Business or Economics degree with an Accounting minor or concentration. • Consulting or professional services experience supporting banking and financial services organizations. • Knowledge of GAAP financial accounting and SEC reporting requiremen

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