Senior Manager, Tech Audit Program

At F5 we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create secure and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

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At F5 we bring a better digital world to life by enabling organizations to create secure and run applications in increasingly complex and rapidly evolving technology environments. Delivering on this mission requires a forwardlooking riskaligned Internal Audit program that anticipates where technology risk is emergingnot just where it has previously existed.

We are seeking a Senior Manager Tech Audit Program to help shape operationalize and govern our Technology Audit Program. This role is ideal for a professional who combines strong technology risk acumen program and project management discipline and a curiositydriven mindset to identify where audit focus will be most impactful.

This role operates at the intersection of enterprise risk awareness audit strategy and execution quality. You will help translate evolving technology and cybersecurity risks into a structured actionable audit plan lead highlevel planning and scoping for audits and oversee execution quality across multiple concurrent engagements. While this role does not execute detailed audit testing it plays a critical role in ensuring the right risks are audited in the right way at the right time.

Primary Responsibilities:

Technology Audit Program & Planning

• Support the design evolution and ongoing management of the Technology Audit Program ensuring alignment to enterprise risk priorities such as cybersecurity cloud resilience data governance AI and emerging technologies
• Partner with Internal Audit leadership to identify key areas of the business and technology landscape to include in the audit plan informed by risk assessments business initiatives and external threat trends
• Translate risk inputs into a clear riskaligned audit roadmap including prioritization sequencing capacity planning and timing considerations
• Continuously evaluate whether the audit plan remains aligned to a changing risk environment and propose adjustments as needed

Audit Engagement Planning & Scoping

• Lead highlevel planning and scoping for technology audit engagements including defining audit objectives scope boundaries key risks and success criteria
• Partner with Technology and Cybersecurity leaders during planning to develop a shared understanding of systems architecture and risk tradeoffs
• Ensure audit scope is appropriately focused on areas of highest risk and value rather than overly broad or checklistdriven coverage
• Transition audits smoothly to assigned Audit Leads ensuring clarity of scope timelines stakeholder expectations and execution approach

Project Execution Oversight & Quality Management

• Serve as programlevel project manager across multiple technology audit engagements establishing and monitoring milestones timelines dependencies and delivery status
• Coordinate across Internal Audit staff cosourcing partners and business stakeholders to support efficient wellsequenced execution
• Proactively identify and manage execution risks scope drift resourcing constraints and scheduling conflicts
• Monitor audit execution for consistency quality and adherence to established methodologies and standards
• Identify execution quality issues early and partner with Audit Leads to coursecorrect as needed

Governance Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Establish and maintain program governance including audit plan status KPIs metrics and risk coverage reporting
• Support development of Audit Committee and executivelevel reporting including audit plan progress emerging risk themes and capacity considerations
• Drive consistency and scalability through the use of standardized tools templates and planning frameworks
• Identify opportunities to enhance audit effectiveness and efficiency through automation analytics and improved ways of working
• Contribute to the continuous maturation of the Technology Audit Program and Internal Audit operating model

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Strong understanding of technology and cybersecurity risk domains including cloud environments application architecture SDLC data governance and operational resilience
• Ability to think strategically about where audit attention is most needed not just how audits are executed
• Proven program and project management capabilities with experience overseeing complex crossfunctional initiatives
• Ability to translate highlevel risk and strategy into structured executable plans
• Strong judgment and problemsolving skills with attention to scope discipline and execution quality
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage effectively with senior technology cybersecurity and audit leaders
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives in a fastpaced evolving environment
• Familiarity with data analytics automation and/or AIenabled processes is a strong plus
• High degree of professionalism integrity and sound judgment

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Business Accounting Engineering or a related field
• 12 years of relevant experience in internal audit technology risk cybersecurity program management or largescale project delivery within a complex organization (8 years with a relevant Masters degree)
• Experience supporting or managing audit programs risk initiatives or enterpriselevel technology efforts
• Prior experience working with or supporting an Internal Audit function is strongly preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional certifications such as PMP CISA CIA CISSP or equivalent
• Experience in a global technology or SaaS environment
• Experience coordinating with cosourcing partners or thirdparty service providers
• Exposure to audit planning in highly regulated or securitysensitive environments

Travel Requirements:

This role requires the ability to travel up to25% of the time including international travel

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