Sr Manager Internal Audit
Target · Posted Nov 4
General merchandise, apparel, grocery, and home goods retail services
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About the role
Target's Internal Audit provides independent assurance and risk insights to the Audit & Risk Committee, executive leaders, business owners, support functions, and risk-focused partners. The role leads assurance and compliance work across SOX IT general controls, business process controls, automated controls, IFC compliance, and enterprise and India-focused assurance. It also drives Internal Audit transformation through data analytics, automation, GenAI, and agentic AI while developing teams and stakeholder relationships.
What you will do
- Lead assurance and compliance delivery: Lead a team of audit professionals across SOX IT general controls, business process controls, and automated controls.
- Support enterprise and India-focused assurance: Perform varying roles in assurance activities related to Target enterprise business capabilities and Target in India capabilities, including regulatory requirements.
- Support or lead IFC compliance for the Target in India entity.
- Advance Internal Audit transformation: Set direction for and drive the responsible use of data analytics, automation, GenAI, and agentic AI to improve the efficiency, quality, and effectiveness of audit work.
- Provide forward-looking risk insights: Monitor current, emerging, internal, and external risks. Evaluate governance, risk management, processes, technology, data, and controls, and communicate timely recommendations that strengthen business results and resilience.
- Build high-performing teams: Set clear expectations, coach with care, hold team members accountable, and support meaningful development. Enable the team to deliver quality work, exercise sound judgment, and communicate with impact.
- Manage stakeholders effectively: Build productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders through clear, timely communication. Constructively challenge perspectives when needed to support effective execution and strong outcomes.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Education and credentials: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in commerce, accountancy, management, or a related field. Relevant professional certifications are preferred based on the portfolio, including Chartered Accountancy, ACCA, CPA, CIA, CISA, CISM, CRISC, PMP, data and analytics, AI, cyber, or other risk-related credentials.
- Relevant experience: Eight or more (8+) years of post-qualification experience, excluding internships, in audit, risk, compliance, retail, data, technology, cyber, or a related area. Experience in both SOX or IFC and internal audit is preferred; Big Four or retail industry experience is an advantage.
- Audit and risk expertise: Strong knowledge of internal audit and enterprise risk management, including risk assessment and prioritization, governance, processes and internal controls, root-cause analysis, issue remediation, and assurance or advisory delivery.
- Strategic assurance leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead a risk-based assurance strategy, develop a forward-looking audit pipeline, prioritize work across evolving risks, and influence enterprise-minded decisions that improve business outcomes and resilience.
- Judgment and integrity: Strong professional judgment, critical thinking, professional skepticism, curiosity, and courage, with the ability to make sound decisions amid ambiguity while preserving independence, objectivity, and quality.
- Communication and influence: Demonstrated executive communication, storytelling, stakeholder partnership, and influencing skills, including the ability to translate complex risk and control topics into clear, actionable messages.
- People leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop team members through ambiguity and change while fostering belonging, accountability, inclusive and caring leadership, and future-ready skills and mindsets.
- Technology enablement: Experience applying or leading the use of Gen AI, Agentic AI, data analytics & visualization, automation and other technology-enabled capabilities to solve business problems.
- Success in this role requires inclusive and caring leadership that fosters belonging, critical thinking, professional skepticism, courage, candor, curiosity, adaptability, and enterprise-minded partnership. You must be able to lead teams through ambiguity and change while communicating with clarity and impact. You will play a pivotal role in building an AI-enabled, human-led Internal Audit function. This requires hands-on familiarity with GenAI, agentic AI, agile ways of working, and data analytics, as well as the ability to guide the team in using these capabilities responsibly. Human judgment, quality, confidentiality, independence, and objectivity must remain central to the work.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Target
Target Corporation operates an extensive chain of general merchandise and discount retail department stores across the United States. The company provides a broad assortment of owned and national brand products, including apparel, electronics, beauty items, groceries, and home goods. Through its physical stores and digital platforms, Target focuses on delivering style, design, and value to help consumers discover the joy of everyday life.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 415000+ employees
- Founded
- 1902
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Chair of the Board
Jim Lee
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Prat Vemana
Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Product Officer
Mark Weinstein
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Guest Experience Officer
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