[Hiring] Internal Audit Manager @FICO

Role Description

Join our top-notch risk and assurance team within a global, fast-growing and progressive data analytics and cutting-edge AI oriented software company. If you’re eager to feel empowered and apply your creativity and experience in a way that adds value and serves to mitigate business risks across the enterprise, this is the opportunity for you. This is a hands-on lead role. You will own the IT audit coverage for a defined portfolio of FICO’s financial applications, cloud platforms and security tooling — running engagements end to end, setting the testing approach, and raising the bar on how we use data, automation and AI to get assurance.

What You’ll Contribute

• Lead IT audit engagements end to end with limited supervision — scoping and risk assessment, walkthroughs, design and operating effectiveness testing, issue development, and remediation validation.
• Own the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 (SOX 404) IT general controls program for an assigned portfolio of in-scope financial applications and supporting infrastructure.
• Test IT application controls, key reports, interfaces and system-generated data supporting financial reporting across our ERP and other in-scope financial applications.
• Perform annual and ad-hoc segregation of duties (SoD) analysis.
• Audit identity and access management across the enterprise.
• Evaluate change and release management controls across modern DevOps toolchains.
• Assess controls over cloud infrastructure and enterprise data platforms.
• Perform cybersecurity and cloud security assessments across FICO’s SaaS product environments.
• Support third-party risk and service organization report reviews.
• Contribute to emerging-risk coverage as FICO’s use of AI expands.
• Apply data analytics and AI-assisted tooling to audit work.
• Prepare clear, well-supported work papers; summarize findings and review them with the Chief Audit Executive and/or the Senior Manager, IT Risk & Assurance.
• Act as the liaison between our external auditors and internal stakeholders.
• Partner with IT, Engineering, Security, Finance and business process owners.
• Drive improvement of FICO’s internal control structure through practical control design and process enhancement recommendations.
• Coach and review the work of junior auditors and co-sourced resources.
• Proactively keep leadership informed of progress, control weaknesses and audit findings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, information systems, computer science, accounting or a related field; equivalent practical experience will be considered.
• Approximately 3–5 years of progressive IT audit experience.
• Hands-on experience testing IT general and application controls over a major ERP — Oracle strongly preferred.
• Real enthusiasm for using AI and automation to change how audit work gets done.
• Working knowledge of identity governance and privileged access concepts.
• Cloud audit experience in AWS.
• Familiarity with the control frameworks and regulatory standards we operate against.
• Data and scripting ability; advanced Excel is expected.
• CISA achieved or actively being pursued; other certifications are a plus.
• Experience with GRC and audit management platforms preferred.
• Pro-active and independent thinking in analyzing and developing solutions to complex problems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working across global teams and time zones.

Benefits

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance.
• The targeted base pay range for this role is: $80,500 to $126,500.