Senior Audit Manager

#LI-Hybrid

**What can go right when you can bring your whole self to the workplace?** At Zurich, we work every day so that you can find a place to
**be who you are. We are not perfect**, but we continually strive to be better.
**We believe in diversity** and its richness.

Taking care of your
**well-being** is our top priority, that's why we are committed to
**flexibility** so that you can give your best, by taking care of what matters most to you.

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**real actions** that generate impact to build a more
**sustainable planet and future**.

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To build a
**brighter future**, we need
**epic gestures**. Will you join us on this journey?

**Our audit team is growing**

Being in Group Audit at Zurich means being part of a community with a common purpose: to keep Zurich safe. We are an international team of 200+ colleagues from 33 different nationalities, working as one function from Chicago to Sydney Together, we look to bring our skills, capabilities and unique strengths to provide insights to our stakeholders. We are working to be the best we can be at spotting danger for our company; continuously learning to get better and better in what we do.

We are early in our journey to transform our way of working, to be more agile and fit for whatever the future brings, with increased autonomy and faster decision-making. We believe that a clear common purpose, promoting authenticity of individuals and creating a learning environment will help our teams bring their best. We can't promise it will always be an easy journey and it may feel uncomfortable at times, but it will be an authentic and fulfilling one.

As the Senior Manager, Methodologies and Change, you will be responsible for driving and supporting our strategic priorities in particular related to methodologies, audit practices and ways of working to co-create a leading audit function.

**Audit Operations**

The Audit operations team sits at the heart of the internal audit function, we are on our own journey to evolving our approach, with the aim of supporting the global audit team to get better and better at delivering our purpose and strategy, while growing and learning at the same time. We are here to support the audit function to deliver exceptional insights to our varied stakeholders, as well as influencing the control environment. The team’s role is to set up and continuously improve what we as an audit function do, how we work, develop and grow together. Building efficiencies and drive meaningful change.

**What will be your challenge?**

The Senior Manager, Methodologies and Change will be responsible for leading the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the internal audit practices, methodologies, and ways of working. This role will work with the internal audit team and collaborate with key internal audit stakeholders to identify opportunities to optimize the internal audit function, enhance audit quality, and support effective delivery of internal audit’s mandate. This role has a global remit, and will work with teams across Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

**What will your day-to-day life be like?**

You’ll work closely with senior leaders within the audit team including the Group Audit Chief Operating Officer and Professional Practices Lea and you will be responsible for:

- Driving the evolution of our planning and audit methodologies and working practices, to be further business and outcome focused. Ensuring these practices are set up to be more agile and flexible to enable us to be fit for whatever the future brings.
- Promoting a culture of continuous improvement by identifying and implementing opportunities to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the audit function. This includes through collaborating with key internal audit stakeholders, including senior leaders and external parties across the industry to identify such opportunities.
- Developing and delivering training and development globally on these updated practices - developing audit skills.
- Analyzing and reporting on stakeholder feedback themes, trends and insights as well as the results of quality assurance activities to enable continuous improvements across global teams. Develop and implement actions to improve audit activities.
- Facilitating assessments of audit activities against global and local internal audit standards and regulatory requirements.
- Developing and supporting the evolution of our reporting approach and building further capabilities around report writing.
- Driving the implementation and evolution of audit tools and ways of working to support updated audit practices.
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