IT Audit Manager II

IT Audit Manager II in Colorado Springs, Colorado - Apply through Financial Talent Group.

Remote - IT Audit Manager II

About the Organization and Newly Created Role

Financial Talent Group has partnered with one of our top clients, a national security, compliance, and assurance firm, to identify an IT Audit Manager II for their growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a 100% remote, employee-centric organization known for its collaborative culture, commitment to work-life balance, and focus on professional growth and development.

In this highly visible leadership role, you will have the opportunity to mentor and develop managers and audit professionals, help elevate audit quality and consistency, and contribute to the continued growth of the practice. The ideal candidate is a confident people leader who enjoys developing others but is also comfortable rolling up their sleeves and staying close to the work when needed.

Our client supports organizations across a variety of industries with complex security, compliance, and assurance needs. Their culture is highly autonomous and entrepreneurial, giving team members the opportunity to take ownership, contribute ideas, improve processes, and make a meaningful impact.

For an experienced IT audit leader looking for a fully remote opportunity with strong leadership exposure, continued professional development, career growth, and the ability to help shape a growing team, this is an exceptional next step.

Description of the Position
The IT Audit Manager II will lead and mentor IT audit professionals while overseeing day-to-day audit operations and supporting the continued growth of the Audit practice. This role will have significant responsibility for audit quality, quality control, workpaper review, peer-review readiness, and the consistent execution of engagements.

The position will oversee engagements involving SOC 1, SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST, GDPR, IT general controls, application controls, and related audit and compliance frameworks.

Office Setting
100% Remote

Salary
$175,000 + Bonus

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead IT audit and SOC assurance engagements from planning through completion.
  • Manage multiple client engagements, priorities, deadlines, and audit workstreams.
  • Perform and oversee risk assessments, IT control testing, and business-process evaluations.
  • Review audit workpapers for accuracy, completeness, proper support, and compliance with applicable standards.
  • Maintain strong audit-quality standards and support internal quality-control and peer-review processes.
  • Apply AICPA standards and reporting requirements throughout the audit process.
  • Identify technical, security, compliance, and control issues and communicate findings effectively.
  • Recommend improvements that strengthen controls, reduce risk, and improve operational efficiency.
  • Supervise, coach, train, and mentor audit professionals.
  • Serve as a key client contact and manage expectations, issues, and ongoing relationships.
  • Help establish consistent, efficient, and repeatable processes across the Audit function.

Required Qualifications

  • Active CPA license Required
  • Preference towards a CISA certification 
  • Strong AICPA quality-control experience.
  • Hands-on experience with internal quality control, peer reviews, and audit workpaper review.
  • Strong SOC 1 experience, including control objectives, business-process controls, and controls relevant to financial statement audits.
  • Strong SOC 2 experience, including Trust Services Criteria, privacy, compliance, security, and third-party data-protection requirements.
  • Strong IT audit background, including IT general controls and application controls.
  • Big Four public IT Audit experience
  • Significant experience managing, supervising, and mentoring audit professionals.
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, computer science, information systems, or a related field.
  • Strong client-facing, communication, organizational, and project-management skills.
  • Ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fully remote environment.

Highly Preferred

  • Experience working with offshore audit teams.
  • Experience with GRC platforms such as Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, or similar tools.
  • Additional certifications such as CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, CISSP, or similar.
  • Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, DevOps/CI/CD, access management, vulnerability management, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and ERP environments.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for eligible family members.
  • Unlimited Flex PTO, paid holidays, 401K + day 1 employer matching, STD, LTD, Hospital and critical illness insurance, assistance maintaining CPE's for professional licensure.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Financial Talent Group provides equal employment and recruiting opportunities to all employees, applicants, and recruits for employment for Financial Talent Group and in recruiting employees for its clients, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.