The Internal Audit Lead will be responsible for leading and project managing annual compliance-related audit engagements, including SOX, SOC, and other applicable compliance initiatives. This role will coordinate complex audit workstreams. It will manage engagement timelines and deliverables. Additionally, it will oversee co-sourced internal audit resources. The role will also serve as a key liaison with external auditors, business process owners, technology teams, and control owners.
The Internal Audit Lead will also play a critical role in evaluating new systems, business processes, and process changes to determine their impact on the SOX program. This includes assessing control implications, supporting deficiency identification and resolution, and promoting a disciplined, risk-based approach to compliance execution.
The primary responsibilities of the Internal Audit Lead include the following:
- Lead the project management of SOX, SOC, and other annual compliance-related engagements, as applicable.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, deliverable trackers, and status reporting for compliance engagements.
- Coordinate audit activities across Internal Audit, external auditors, co-sourced audit teams, business stakeholders, IT partners, and control owners.
- Serve as a primary point of coordination with external auditors for SOX, SOC, and other compliance-related engagements.
- Manage external auditor request lists, timelines, status updates, evidence submissions, and follow-up inquiries.
- Coordinate communication between external auditors, internal stakeholders, control owners, and internal audit leadership.
- Supervise, direct, and manage day-to-day activities of co-sourced internal audit team members supporting compliance engagements.
- Review co-sourced team deliverables for completeness, accuracy, quality, and alignment with audit methodology and engagement expectations.
- Provide guidance, coaching, prioritization, and issue escalation support to co-sourced audit resources.
- Apply critical thinking to assess new systems, system changes, business processes, and process redesigns for applicability to the SOX program.
- Evaluate whether new or changing processes introduce financial reporting risks, control requirements, system dependencies, or changes to existing control design.
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to understand process flows, data sources, system functionality, access considerations, and control implications.
- Recommend updates to SOX scoping, control documentation, process narratives, risk and control matrices, and testing approaches based on process or system changes.
- Challenge existing assumptions and historical approaches where appropriate to ensure the SOX program remains risk-based, current, and responsive to business change.
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Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 8 or more years of audit or consulting experience
- 2 or more years of project leadership experience
- Experience managing or supporting SOX, SOC, internal audit, external audit, risk, compliance, or internal controls engagements.
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to organize, monitor, and control multiple workstreams, priorities, resources, and deliverables.
- Experience coordinating with external auditors or third-party audit partners.
- Ability to supervise, manage, or provide direction to co-sourced audit resources, consultants, or cross-functional project contributors.
- Strong understanding of internal controls, audit evidence, control testing, deficiency evaluation, and remediation tracking.
- Demonstrated ability to assess process and system changes and identify related risk and control implications.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate audit issues and project status to varied audiences.
- Strong attention to detail, organizational discipline, accountability, and follow-through.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced certifications such as CPA, CIA, CISA, CISSP, PMP
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated environment.
- Experience with audit management, governance, risk, and compliance platforms.
- Experience evaluating IT-dependent controls, system implementations, user access controls, reports, interfaces, and data flows.
- Familiarity with control frameworks, financial reporting risks, and audit standards.
Additional Information
This is a hybrid position and will require you to work onsite in Louisville, KY, as needed.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
$115,200 - $158,400 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
