Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Farmers Insurance is a company that combines ambition with opportunity, seeking to make a real difference in people's lives. The Manager of Internal Audit Operations will lead the audit function through operational leadership and enhance audit insights by leveraging data analytics, automation, and AI. This role is pivotal in ensuring efficient audit lifecycle resourcing and executive reporting across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end development and continuous enhancement of management, including leveraging data analytics to generate insights, identify themes and trends, and deliver value-added reporting for audit leadership and senior stakeholders
• Coordinate annual audit planning activities and quarterly refresh processes, including tracking updates, dependencies, and impacts to scope, timing, resourcing, and delivery, ensuring changes are consistently reflected across plans, systems, and stakeholder communications
• Advance the use of data analytics, automation, and AI enabled capabilities to support audit delivery and strategic enhancements to the function
• Oversee data analytics resources responsible for enabling data driven audit execution
• Support the audit functions professional practices activities, including methodology updates, alignment with IIA standards, quality assurance and improvement program activities, and incorporation of leading practices into audit guidance, tools, and templates
• Own the administration and ongoing evolution of the audit management system, leveraging platform functionality and configuring the system to align with audit methodology, planning, reporting, and evolving departmental needs
• Oversee audit execution operations across the portfolio, including planning timelines, key milestones, and resource scheduling, ensuring appropriate capacity allocation, workload balance, and proactive management of resource constraints
• Provide end-to-end operational visibility, monitoring execution progress and data quality, and identifying and mitigating risks to delivery
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

• High School Diploma or equivalent required
• Minimum seven years in internal audit or equivalent required, preferably with focus on audit operations, data analytics, methodology, quality assurance, or transformation
• Possesses strong product knowledge
• Expertise in the audit lifecycle, methodology, reporting, insights generation, and IIA standards, complemented by strong technical data analytics capabilities (example, data extraction, transformation, and analysis tools) to enable data-driven audit insights
• Possesses strong technical aptitude
• Familiarity with audit software
• Effective leadership skills
• Ability to effectively lead through change while operating in an agile and adaptable manner
• Strong governance and operating model design experience
• Demonstrated written communication skills
• Strong verbal communication and listening skills
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Bachelors degree preferred
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), or equivalent preferred

Benefits

• Bonus Opportunity (based on Company and Individual Performance)
• 401(k)
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Assistance

Company Overview

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