Internal Audit Manager

Position: Internal Audit Manager Location: 330 Rush Alley suite 500 Columbus, OH Job Id: 1033 # of Openings: 1 Internal Audit Manager Department: Internal AuditReports To: Chief Credit and Risk Officer (CCRO) (Administrative) / Supervisory Committee Chair (Functional) Formed in 1934, Telhio began as a credit union for Columbus Telephone Company (now AT&T) employees. Telhio now serves over 70,000 member-owners throughout central and southwest Ohio. As one of the largest credit unions in Ohio, Telhio is a strong financial institution that continues to serve its members through extraordinary service, innovative financial solutions and community involvement. After generations of service and growth, we never lose focus of our three core values - Caring, Commitment, and Integrity. Summary: The Internal Audit Manager leads the credit union's Internal Audit program, leveraging both internal resources and an external audit provider to deliver a comprehensive, riskbased audit plan. This role is responsible for enhancing, managing, and maturing the Internal Audit function-developing the audit universe and risk assessment, creating and maintaining Internal Audit methodology and quality practices, coordinating and monitoring audit execution, and reporting results to the Supervisory Committee and executive leadership. The Internal Audit Manager works in partnership with the Chief Credit and Risk Officer (administrative reporting) and business leaders, while maintaining independence and objectivity and performing select internal audits directly as needed. This role ensures Internal Audit maintains independence, follows the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (IIA Standards), and provides highquality, objective assurance to the Supervisory Committee and executive leadership. Responsibilities: 1. Leadership of a CoSourced Internal Audit Model - Oversee a hybrid audit delivery model combining internal audit work with outsourced specialty audits (e.g., IT/cybersecurity, BSA/AML, model risk, ALM). - Manage relationships, contracts/SLAs, and performance expectations (KPIs) for the external audit provider, including independence and confidentiality requirements. - Allocate work between internal and external resources based on complexity, risk, and required expertise. 2. Internal Audit Planning & Risk Assessment - Lead the annual enterprisewide risk assessment process in collaboration with the CCRO and business leaders. - Develop a riskbased Internal Audit Plan that includes both internal audits and outsourced audit engagements and provides appropriate coverage across key risk areas (e.g., lending, deposits, payments, financial reporting, IT/cybersecurity, BSA/AML, thirdparty risk, and governance/enterprise risk management). - Present the annual plan to the Supervisory Committee for approval and conduct midyear refreshes as appropriate. 3. Execution of Select Internal Audits - Perform select internal audits (as capacity and risk dictate), including planning, limited fieldwork/testing, documentation, and reporting, in accordance with IIA Standards. - Conduct targeted reviews in areas such as (examples): - Operational processes - Consumer compliance (as appropriate) - Payments and branch operations - Governance, risk management, and internal control frameworks - Identify control gaps, evaluate root causes, and recommend actionable improvements; coordinate management responses and due dates for tracked issues. 4. Oversight of Outsourced Audit Work Review and chall