Senior Manager, Internal Audit

Role Description

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. The Senior Manager, Internal Audit serves as the strategic second-in-command to the Chief Internal Audit Officer and plays a critical role in supporting the planning, execution, and oversight of a comprehensive, enterprise-wide internal audit program for City of Hope and its related entities.

• Provides independent reviews and evaluations across financial, operational, regulatory, and IT areas to ensure strong governance, risk management, and internal controls.
• Collaborates closely with senior leaders across the organization.
• Provides valuable insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Ensures timely and effective remediation of audit findings.
• Directly supervises internal audit and IT audit staff.
• Helps manage co-sourced audit resources provided by an external accounting firm.
• Operates in accordance with Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) standards.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to leadership.
• This is a remote role with occasional travel to Southern California, Phoenix, Chicago, and Atlanta.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Partner with Enterprise Risk Management and Compliance teams to identify and evaluate key enterprise risks.
• Support the development and execution of the enterprise risk-based internal audit plan.
• Oversee audit engagements to ensure high quality, timely completion, and actionable results.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls across financial, operational, compliance, and IT domains.
• Provide oversight and coordination of co-sourced audit services with external accounting firms.
• Lead, mentor, and develop internal audit and IT audit team members.
• Prepare and support audit reporting for executive leadership and Board committees.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to leaders by identifying opportunities where Internal Audit can support organizational priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5–7 years of internal audit experience, including 3+ years in a management role.
• Experience in healthcare, research, or other highly regulated environments.
• Demonstrated experience supervising staff and managing co-sourced audit providers.
• Active professional certification such as CIA, CPA, CISA, or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of internal audit standards, risk management, governance, and internal controls.
• Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, and analytical skills.
• Master’s degree (MBA, MHA, MS Accounting) and/or CFE or healthcare-related certification preferred.

Benefits

• City of Hope employees’ pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.
• City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.
• To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please click here.