Sr Audit Group Manager (US), QAIP Financial Crimes (604)

Senior Audit Group Manager

The Senior Audit Group Manager leads and develops a team of audit professionals and oversees, plans and executes audits and/or projects of varying complexity and may act as a subject matter expert in own area of expertise. Provides guidance, leadership, coaching and development to ensure operational results and development objectives are achieved for the overall group.

Depth & Scope:

• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required
• Oversees and leads a large, significant and/or highly complex, and diverse audit team for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope
• People Manager role that generally manages a team greater than 5 Audit professionals/specialists
• Strategic advisor to leadership team on the management of the portfolio and financials, with deep industry, external/internal, enterprise knowledge, recognizing and anticipating emerging trends and identifying operational efficiencies and opportunities with other business management/enterprise areas
• Facilitates key strategic audit discussions and provides thought leadership to executives
• Highly specialized expert with in-depth knowledge to manage audits for multiple, significant complex businesses, functional areas and/or global business lines
• Sets operational team direction and collaborates with others to execute on common goals
• Focuses on long term planning for functional area
• Ability to process and handle confidential information with discretion
• May participates on or leads various projects/division initiatives as needed
• Demonstrates TD leadership Core Values
• Recognizes team members' contributions
• Strong presentation skills when delivering training and presentation at the division level, industry conferences, workshops, etc.

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree required
• 10+ years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills:

• QA background covering AML/FC
• Deep domain Audit or 2nd line expertise in AML/FC
• Certifications: CPA, CIA, CAMS Audit, CGSS, CISA, CRCM

Customer Accountabilities:

• Develops, communicates and implements a holistic strategy for audit area of expertise in support of and integrated with the overall audit strategy
• Oversees/leads/manages and plans audit engagement work activities to ensure adequate risk coverage which may require alignment across multiple areas
• Contributes to the risk assessment process to develop the divisional annual plan
• Acts as lead audit advisor to management and respective teams for area of specialization; reports on emerging trends, identifying issues and opportunities and recommending action to senior management
• Acts as a strategic audit advisor by providing counsel and guidance on audit issues; leads relationships with key enterprise partners and interfaces with respective leadership team to effectively manage own audit area and clarify scope of accountabilities while influencing and aligning others as needed
• Ensures an integrated and aggregated view of all related activities across the overall function providing escalations, recommendations, and decision support to leadership
• Forecasts initiatives and demand, and coordinates prioritization of the portfolio/initiatives with key stakeholders
• Provides functional/business level communications to ensure messages to stakeholders and/or leaders are consistent, appropriate and aligned to business strategies and executive management direction
• Leads the team in the development and/or integrated implementation of policies/processes/procedures/changes across multiple audit areas

Shareholder Accountabilities:

• Ensures team adheres to internal policies/procedures, enterprise frameworks and methodologies and applicable regulatory guidelines, contributes to the review of internal processes and activities and assists in identifying potential opportunities to improve operational efficiencies for their business area
• Leads relationships with business lines/corporate and/or control functions to ensure alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements
• Supports team in staying knowledgeable on emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts to the Bank
• Assesses/identifies key issues and escalates to appropriate levels and relevant stakeholders and audit management where required
• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes and sound infrastructure in alignment with risk appetite
• Identifies, mitigates and reports on risk issues per enterprise policy/guidelines and ensures appropriate escalation processes are followed
• Leads or contributes to cross-functional/enterprise initiatives as an organizational or subject matter expert helping to identify risk/provide guidance for complex situations
• Oversees or leads the facilitation and/or implementation of own internal audit action/remediation plans to address performance/risk/governance issues

Employee/Team Accountabilities:

• Responsible for management of the overall team(s) providing both leadership and guidance
• Sets targets and objectives for the team, and delivers results
• Grows team expertise to align with enterprise demand and the Bank's direction; assesses team skills and capabilities and continually looks for ways to provide and enhance the value delivered
• Fosters an environment/culture that encourages productivity, innovation, process improvement, teamwork and a high level of professionalism
• Coordinates necessary resources to ensure completion of Audit assignment by deadlines
• Provides coaching, development, succession, recruitment, resource management and overall team leadership for team members and provides regular input into team members' assessment of performance and development plans
• Prioritizes and manages own workload in order to deliver quality results and meets timelines
• Supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/points of interest
• Identifies and recommends opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency
• Establishes effective relationships across multiple business areas
• Supports and manages teams through change
• Be a brand ambassador for Internal Audit both internally to the bank and externally

Physical Requirements:

Never: 0%; Occasional: 1-33%; Frequent: 34-66%; Continuous: 67-100%

• Domestic Travel Occasional
• International Travel Never
• Performing sedentary work Continuous
• Performing multiple tasks Continuous
• Operating standard office equipment - Continuous
• Responding quickly to sounds Occasional
• Sitting Continuous
• Standing Occasional
• Walking Occasional
• Moving safely in confined spaces Occasional
• Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) Occasional
• Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) Never
• Squatting Occasional
• Bending Occasional
• Kneeling Never
• Crawling Never
• Climbing Never
• Reaching overhead Never
• Reaching forward Occasional
• Pushing Never
• Pulling Never
• Twisting Never
• Concentrating for long periods of time Continuous
• Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations Continuous
• Reading, writing and comprehending instructions Continuous
• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing Continuous

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. The listed or specified responsibilities & duties are considered essential functions for ADA purposes.

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