VP, Head of IT Audit
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
At Broadridge weve built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If youre passionate about developing your career while helping others along the way come join the Broadridge team.
The Head of IT Audit is a senior leadership role responsible for setting and executing the global technology audit strategy for a large complex fintech organization. This leader will oversee risk-based audit coverage across technology cybersecurity engineering infrastructure and emerging technology domains while serving as a key member of the Audit Leadership Team. The role requires a strong people leader who can elevate a distributed team strengthen methodology and quality standards and provide clear credible insight to senior management and the Audit Committee. This is a high-impact opportunity for a leader who combines deep technical audit expertise with executive presence and a pragmatic business-focused approach.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the global IT audit function and develop a risk-based audit plan aligned to the companys technology cybersecurity product regulatory and operational risk profile.
- Direct enterprise-wide technology risk assessments to identify priority areas for audit coverage including emerging risks across cloud AI/GPT/agentic technologies blockchain digital wallets and digital currency.
- Oversee audits across core technology domains including IT general controls SOX readiness infrastructure identity and access management application and product engineering SDLC cybersecurity controls vulnerability management incident response disaster recovery business continuity data governance emerging technologies and third-party risk.
- Ensure appropriate audit coverage of cloud environments including security architecture configuration access monitoring resilience and control effectiveness.
- Partner closely with Internal Audit leadership business stakeholders technology leadership risk compliance and security teams to maintain coordinated value-added assurance coverage.
- Deliver clear concise audit committee-ready reporting on significant technology risks control issues themes and remediation progress.
- Set and continuously improve IT audit methodology standards and workpaper quality with alignment to IPPF and internal quality assurance expectations.
- Drive a data-informed audit approach by leveraging analytics AI automation and GRC tools to improve audit efficiency insight and coverage.
- Oversee issue tracking validation and closure testing to ensure management actions are sustainable timely and appropriately address root causes.
- Provide credible challenge and advisory insight on technology control design and operating effectiveness and regulatory readiness.
- Lead coach and develop a mixed-experience team across multiple geographies; establish clear expectations strengthen performance management and build succession capability.
- Promote consistency in audit execution stakeholder engagement and reporting across the team while fostering a collaborative inclusive high-performance culture.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the Chief Audit Executive and a visible member of the Audit Leadership Team contributing to broader functional strategy planning and leadership priorities.
The position has a global remit and leads a distributed team across the US and India.
Travel is expected to be approximately 1020% including domestic and international travel as needed.
Required Qualifications
- 15 years of experience in IT audit technology risk cybersecurity risk management or related fields.
- Significant experience leading an IT audit technology risk compliance or equivalent assurance function.
- Proven leadership experience managing and developing teams including distributed teams across regions and cultures.
- Deep expertise across technology audit domains including ITGC SOX readiness cloud infrastructure IAM cybersecurity SDLC incident response DR/BCP data governance and third-party risk.
- Strong understanding of modern technology environments including AWS Azure and GCP.
- Familiarity with emerging technology risk areas such as AI/GPT/agentic systems blockchain digital wallets and digital currency.
- Strong working knowledge of leading control frameworks and standards including NIST CSF COBIT ISO 27001 SOC 1 and SOC 2.
- Exposure to relevant regulatory and industry standards such as HIPAA and PCI DSS.
- Demonstrated experience with GRC platforms and data-driven auditing techniques.
- Comfort working with tools such as Jira Confluence Archer GRC and AutoAudit (Optial/Optra-style audit management tools).
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex issues clearly to senior management and the Audit Committee.
- CISA certification required or strongly preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Additional certifications such as CISSP CCSP CRISC or CIA.
- Experience within financial services fintech payments or other highly regulated technology-driven environments.
- Experience scaling or maturing an IT audit function including methodology enhancement and quality improvement initiatives.
- Background in cyber risk cloud security or technology control transformation.
- Experience using analytics or automation to modernize internal audit practices.
- Demonstrated success influencing senior technology and business stakeholders in a global organization.
Salary range $275000.00- $325000.00. Bonus Eligible.
Broadridge considers various factors when evaluating a candidates final salary including but not limited to relevant experience skills and education.
Please visitfor more information on our comprehensive benefit offerings.
#LI-LR
We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative engaging and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe understood and valued and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a companyand ultimately a communitythat recognizes and celebrates everyones unique perspective.
Use of AI in Hiring
As part of the recruiting process Broadridge may use technology including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools to help review and evaluate applications. These tools are used only to support our recruiters and hiring managers and all employment decisions include human review to ensure fairness accuracy and compliance with applicable laws. Please note that honesty and transparency are critical to our hiring process. Any attempt to falsify misrepresent or disguise information in an application resume assessment or interview will result in disqualification from consideration.
US applicants: Clickhereto view the EEOC Know Your Rights poster.
Disability Assistance
We recognize that ensuring our long-term success means creating an environment where everyone is welcome where everyones strengths are valued and where everyone can perform at their best. Broadridge provides equal employment opportunities to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex (including sexual orientation gender identity or expression and pregnancy) marital status national origin ethnic origin age disability genetic information military or veteran status and other protected characteristics protected by applicable federal state or local laws.
If you need assistance or would like to request reasonable accommodations during the application and/or hiring process please contact us at or by sending an email to.
Required Experience:
Exec