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About the opportunity
The Audit Operations Senior Manager is responsible for the operational policy and support processes of Internal Audit. This role ensures that reporting, data analytics, audit tools, and the organizational framework of the audit function are operated efficiently and continuously developed. The objective is to support the auditing function through a structured data foundation, reliable reporting, and a stable system landscape, while ensuring transparency regarding audit activities and findings.
In this role, you will:
- Audit Governance & Methodology: Support Maintain and further develop the operational framework of the Internal Audit function, including methodologies, operational standards, and supporting governance processes.
- Audit Quality Assurance: Manage the Internal Audit Quality Assurance and Improvement Program in Internal audit
- Audit Reporting: Prepare and consolidate quarterly and annual Internal Audit reports for senior management and governance bodies, including analysis of audit coverage, findings, and remediation status.
- Audit Data Analytics: Develop and perform data analyses to support audit activities, including trend analysis of findings, risk indicators, and remediation progress.
- Audit Systems Administration: Operate and maintain the Internal Audit systems landscape, including administration and continuous improvement of Audimax and the Jira Audit project.
- Issue & Findings Monitoring: Oversee the tracking and monitoring of audit findings and remediation measures, ensuring transparency on remediation progress and escalation of delays where necessary.
- Audit Process Support: Support auditors with operational aspects of the audit lifecycle, including reporting structures, system usage, and data preparation.
- Stakeholder Coordination: Act as central coordination point between Internal Audit, IT, and other control functions regarding audit tools, reporting requirements, and data availability.
- Continuous Improvement of Audit Operations: Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, automation, and data-driven decision making within Internal Audit operations.
What you need to be successful:
Background:
- Successfully completed degree in economics, business administration, finance, information systems, or comparable training.
- Gained at least 7 years of relevant professional experience in Internal Audit, Audit Operations, Audit Methodology, or a related control function within an international company operating in a regulated environment. Preferably within a bank, financial institution, or audit/consulting firm.
- Strong understanding of Internal Audit governance, methodology, quality assurance, and the end-to-end audit lifecycle, including reporting, issue tracking, remediation monitoring, and audit systems administration.
- Sound knowledge of banking regulatory requirements and professional internal audit standards, with the ability to translate these into effective audit methodologies, governance processes, and operational frameworks. Familiarity with banking IT systems, audit tools, and data environments is highly desirable.
- Good English and German language skills. Any other European language is a plus.
Skills:
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively across Internal Audit, IT, and other control functions
- Strong proficiency in audit tools, reporting systems, and data analytics, including the ability to derive meaningful insights from audit data, findings trends, risk indicators, and remediation progress.
- Strong expertise in preparing, consolidating, and quality assuring quarterly and annual Internal Audit reports for senior management and governance bodies, with a clear focus on audit coverage, findings, thematic risk developments, and remediation status.
- Excellent presentation skills, including the ability to present complex audit matters, reporting outputs, and key risk messages in a clear, concise, and management-appropriate manner to senior stakeholders and committees.
- Deep understanding of Internal Audit methodology, quality assurance, issue and findings monitoring, and the operational support processes required to run an effective audit function.
- Strong drafting and reporting skills, with a high degree of precision, attention to detail, and sound legal and factual subsumption.
- Ability to produce robust, defensible, and decision-oriented reporting and management presentations.
- Strong focus on continuous improvement, operational efficiency, automation, and data-driven decision-making within the Internal Audit function.
- Leadership capability in audit quality assurance, audit operations, and the ongoing enhancement of audit governance and methodology.
What’s in it for you:
- Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors 🚀.
- Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation.
- As an N26 employee you will have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members.
- Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
- A high degree of autonomy and access to cutting edge technologies - all while working with a friendly team of peers of diverse nationalities, experiences, and backgrounds.
- A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.
Who we are
N26 has reimagined banking for today’s digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it’s how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use.
We've eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do.
We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.
Sounds good? Apply now for this position.
Do you see yourself thriving in this role? We’d love to see your application even if you don’t meet 100% of the criteria. You may just be the right fit for this or other roles!
Equal opportunities for all
At N26, we believe our strength lies in our people and the varied perspectives they bring. We strive to build diverse teams that drive innovation and business success. We actively seek talent from all backgrounds and welcome applications from all genders, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities, neurodiversities, and ages.
We are committed to providing an excellent and accessible candidate experience. If you require any accommodations to make this process work for you, please let us know. We’re here to support you!
Discover more about Diversity & Inclusion at N26: https://n26.com/en-eu/diversity-and-inclusion
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