Internal Audit Finance & Business Management Associate

Help leaders make faster, better decisions with clear, executive-ready reporting that brings transparency to a complex audit agenda.  
In this role, you’ll turn plan data into decision-grade insights—highlighting progress, surfacing risks and dependencies, and enabling timely action.  
You’ll build strong operating rhythm and controls, collaborate across stakeholders, and improve how reporting and planning get done. 

As an Internal Audit & Finance Business Management Senior Associate in Internal Audit Finance & Business Management, you will partner closely with the Consumer & Community Banking Audit Chief Operating Officer to deliver executive-ready reporting that drives governance, transparency, and decision-making across the audit agenda, while supporting disciplined execution of the annual audit plan.  
You will own audit plan reporting and performance insights, support end-to-end annual planning, maintain strong controls around data quality and deadlines, and help strengthen delivery and risk mitigation across the portfolio. 

Job responsibilities

• Own executive-ready audit plan reporting (weekly/monthly), delivering accurate, timely updates on status, outlook, risks, issues, and decisions needed.

• Establish and maintain reporting controls, including data quality checks, reconciliations, version control, and deadline discipline.

• Run the audit plan operating rhythm by tracking milestones, dependencies, actions, and follow-ups, and escalating exceptions early.

• Support end-to-end annual planning by coordinating intake and prioritization and supporting plan finalization with audit leadership.

• Partner on capacity, budget, and headcount alignment by assessing needs versus commitments and supporting governance forums.

• Identify execution risks and constraints across timing, coverage, capacity, and budget, and drive mitigation with accountable owners.

• Respond to ad-hoc executive requests with fast-turn analysis and concise, decision-ready materials.

• Translate complex data into clear dashboards and presentations with strong Excel and PowerPoint craftsmanship.

• Strengthen stakeholder engagement across Internal Audit and partners to improve transparency, coordination, and delivery.

• Drive process improvement and change adoption to simplify workflows and improve efficiency and consistency.

• Leverage approved firmwide artificial intelligence capabilities to streamline recurring reporting and analysis while improving quality and turnaround time.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field.

• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including Pivot Tables.

• Alteryx proficiency (minimum requirement).

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong organization and project management capabilities.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently, take initiative, and manage deliverables end-to-end.

• Proven track record of producing high-quality, executive-ready reporting and presentations with exceptional attention to detail.

• Strong time management and prioritization skills, with the ability to deliver accurately under tight timelines and shifting priorities.

• Ability to synthesize large, complex datasets and communicate themes, trends, and implications clearly to senior management.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience in business management and/or internal audit.

• Experience simplifying workflows, standardizing reporting, or automating recurring deliverables.

• Strong data analysis skills, including advanced Excel.

• Experience with tools for data preparation, automation, and visualization (for example, Python and Tableau).

Base Pay/Salary: Jersey City,NJ $114,000.00-$150,000.00