Internal Audit Engagement Manager, Investments

Vanguard’s Global Investment Audit Services team has an exciting new opportunity for an Engagement Manager specializing in investments.  The Global Investment and Financial Audit Services (GIFAS) team provides audit and advisory services supporting investment management, external advisors, investment accounting and administration, corporate finance and accounting and enterprise risk management processes. We are a team of hard-working, highly motivate, and engaged professionals who consistently deliver high-quality work. Ultimately, you’ll give Vanguard confidence that we are prepared to both serve and defend our clients and their investments.

In this role you will:

• Be part of the global product center of excellence within Internal Audit and perform risk-based and advisory engagements across a breadth of portfolio management, trading, and risk management areas to evaluate management’s internal control environment. You will work in a team environment and have significant exposure, working directly with the front-office. 
• You will operate as a true partner to our business areas: working side by side with aligned departments in an agile setting, you’ll offer deep analysis of their processes, determine levels of associated risk, and evaluate controls to ensure adequacy.
• During the planning, testing, reporting, and follow-up steps of the audit process, you are encouraged to do proactive consultation, and identify opportunities for improvement that allow the business to achieve operational and strategic goals.
• Handle assignments that will be dedicated to a specific area of focus, and include exposure to the broader business.
• Be a respected voice in the room, influencing senior leaders to take action to strengthen the control environment and make process improvements. By cultivating positive and effective working relationships with these aligned business areas, and risk partners, you’ll further drive Internal Audit’s position as a trusted advisor.
• Assist the Audit Director in crafting key messages and communications for senior management and other governance bodies, including: objectives of an engagement, status and results of assigned work, findings, ratings, and recommendations.
• Leverage data analytics to support engagements, both to enhance scoping and strengthen recommendations.
• Develop relationships with colleagues to leverage their skills and experience, as well as foster colleague’s success by offering meaningful feedback and performance reviews of greener peers.

The Ideal Candidate Should Possess:

• Undergraduate degree in a business related field of concentration or equivalent combination of training and experience. Professional certification or advanced degree (e.g., MBA, CPA, CIA, CFA) is a plus.
• A minimum of five years general business experience (with two to four years of project management related experience).
• An understanding or exposure to portfolio management and trading processes; this includes trade execution and trade support.
• Experience with audit, risk or controls (i.e. operational audits, financial statement audits, internal audits, advisory/consulting, controls/compliance/legal) preferred.

Special Factors:

• This position is hybrid but candidate must be local to Wayne PA
• Vanguard is not offering Visa Sponsorship for this ro

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Future of Work

During the pandemic, we transitioned to a work from home model for the majority of our crew and we continue to interview, hire, and on-board future crew remotely.

As we have developed the path forward, we have taken a thoughtful approach that both maximizes the advantages of working remotely and the many benefits of coming together and collaborating in a shared workspace. We believe that in-person interactions among our crew are important for preserving our unique culture and advantageous for the personal development of our crew.

When our Crew return to the office, many will work in our hybrid model. A smaller proportion of our crew will operate in the Work from Home work model (for example, field sales crew); or in the Work from Office model (for example, portfolio managers).

The working model that your role falls into will be communicated to you in the interview process – please do ask if you are unsure. We encourage you to make the decision regarding your job interview and offer knowing which model your role will fall into. We will test and learn as our ways of working evolve and will continue to evaluate working models along the way.