A recognized financial services firm in New York City is currently seeking an experienced professional to join their staff as a VP / Director within the Internal Audit Departments (IAD) professional practice management team (PPM). In this role, the VP / Director will be primarily responsible for developing and managing IAD's training program, enhancing audit methodology, and other duties, as needed

Responsibilities:

The VP / Director will:

• Act as a liaison with internal stakeholders to agree on training themes and population scoping
• Design and implement a comprehensive curriculum of training courses to satisfy audit practice and regulatory requirements
• Continuously assess and improve training delivery channels across in-person classroom, live virtual and self-paced digital
• Manage RFPs for external training vendor relationships to drive high-quality training delivery and cost optimization
• Act as escalation contact for mandatory training delinquency and partner with business line compliance and business stakeholders to close gaps
• Leverage partnerships with the Specialist Compliance teams and business line compliance to identify training requirements and define strategic objectives
• Evaluate capabilities of internal training resources to assess need for external trainers; oversee management of all training resources to ensure adequate subject matter expertise in targeted areas of learning
• Host and/or participate in industry roundtables and other forums to stay current on latest themes in regulatory landscape and available training platforms and utilities
• Perform other duties as needed

Qualifications:

• 8 years of Internal Audit methodology experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, and/or a related field
• Hands-on experience out of Big 4
• Financial Services background
• Previous experience in a Leadership and/or Supervisory role

Desired Skills:

• CPA and/or CIA