Senior Internal Auditor

Senior Internal Auditor

Key Details

• Location: Sunnyvale, CA 94086
• Duration: 6 months, with potential extension
• Schedule: Hybrid schedule with onsite work Tuesday through Thursday
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid
• Compensation: $119.20-$132.45 per hour
• Employment Type: W2 (not open to C2C, 1099, or visa sponsorship)

Role Overview

Our client is seeking an experienced audit professional to support technology-focused audits and internal audit transformation initiatives within a large, complex global organization. This role may focus on emerging technology and artificial intelligence governance or on professional-practice projects involving innovation, process transformation, automation, and change management. The selected professional will evaluate risks and controls, analyze complex data, develop audit recommendations, and collaborate with stakeholders across business and technology functions.

Responsibilities

• Execute audit procedures and prepare clear, accurate, and complete workpapers.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and perform process walkthroughs.
• Perform risk assessments and evaluate operational, technology, data, and governance controls.
• Support reviews of emerging technologies, AI-enabled solutions, and agentic AI platforms.
• Assess governance frameworks, control guardrails, data protection, fraud prevention, monitoring, and oversight mechanisms.
• Analyze large datasets to identify trends, anomalies, and risk indicators.
• Translate analytical findings into audit observations, recommendations, reports, and presentations.
• Support internal audit initiatives involving innovation, process transformation, automation, and change management.
• Improve departmental workflows and assist with the deployment of audit tools and training programs.
• Develop governance processes, product requirements, prioritization frameworks, and lifecycle standards for auditor-facing tools.
• Partner with engineering and business teams during development, testing, launch, maintenance, and adoption activities.
• Contribute to internal audit methodology, capability-building, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Travel between San Francisco and Sunnyvale as business needs require.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• Five or more years of experience in internal audit, operational risk, consulting, or a related field.
• Experience supporting operational, technology, or data-driven audits.
• Experience working within large, complex, global organizations.
• Strong knowledge of risk assessments and control evaluations.
• Experience analyzing and documenting business processes and controls.
• Strong analytical and data-interpretation capabilities.
• Experience using SQL, Tableau, or comparable data-analytics tools.
• Understanding of technology-enabled business processes and controls.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated stakeholder-management and critical-thinking abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, data, technology, or a related discipline.
• Experience within a technology or platform-based business.
• Experience evaluating governance, controls, and guardrails for AI-enabled solutions.
• Familiarity with emerging technology, artificial intelligence governance, or agentic AI platforms.
• Experience with audit innovation, automation, process transformation, or change-management initiatives.
• CIA, CPA, CISA, CRISC, CISSP, or an equivalent professional certification.