Join Australian Retirement Trust as our Senior Manager - Internal Audit Operations. In this senior leadership role, you'll shape the strategy, governance and operational excellence of the internal audit function, ensuring high quality assurance outcomes across the organisation. Lead audit planning, reporting, quality assurance, resourcing and continuous improvement initiatives while partnering with executive stakeholders to deliver risk insights and support strong governance outcomes.

Description

We're all about helping our members make the most of their money. And while they go after their goals, you can too. As a Senior Manager - Internal Audit Operations, you'll play a critical role in enabling the success of our internal audit function. You'll lead operational planning and delivery, ensuring audit activities are effectively coordinated, governed and resourced to provide strong assurance outcomes for leadership, committees and boards.

You'll be responsible for driving audit strategy execution, overseeing reporting and quality assurance activities, leading audit operations, and supporting a culture of continuous improvement. Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, you'll help ensure the audit function remains efficient, effective and aligned to evolving business, regulatory and industry expectations.

This role is a permanent opportunity and is based in Brisbane, Sydney, or Melbourne.

Responsibilities

Day to day, you'll:

- Lead the development and execution of the Internal Audit strategy, annual audit plan and audit methodology.
- Oversee operational delivery of the audit plan, including scheduling, resource management, progress tracking and dependency management.
- Support audit engagement delivery, managing risks, timelines, quality outcomes and co-sourced resources.
- Lead the preparation of high-quality reporting for management, executive leadership,



committees and boards.
- Oversee audit quality assurance programs, issue management and remediation tracking activities.
- Maintain audit dashboards, registers and reporting packs that provide visibility of audit performance and outcomes.
- Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team while building capability across the function.
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement in audit methodologies, tools, data usage and ways of working.

Qualifications It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

- You hold a bachelor's degree in Business, Law, Information Technology or a related discipline.
- Your experience includes audit, risk management or assurance leadership within a complex environment.
- You'll bring strong knowledge of audit standards, risk frameworks and regulatory requirements, including APRA and ASIC environments.
- You're experienced in operational planning, workflow management and reporting within a qualified services or assurance function.
- You have demonstrated success preparing papers and presenting to boards and committees.
- Your analytical skills enable you to identify themes, interpret data and provide actionable business and risk insights.
- You'll have a proven track record leading, coaching and developing high-performing teams.




- You're ideally experienced in financial services and may hold professional certifications such as CA, CPA or CIA.

Why join us? Bring your potential to Australian Retirement Trust and unleash our monster possibilities:

- You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
- Build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
- Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
- In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

We use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support parts of our recruitment process - such as reviewing applications, supporting screening interviews, reference checking, and matching skills to roles. All final hiring decisions are made by people. By applying, you agree to the use of these technologies as part of the recruitment process.

About us

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of around $375 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you'll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now. Applications close 6th September 2026.

We don't want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you'll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you've made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us - and recruitment is no different.

📌 Senior Manager - Internal Audit Operations (Brisbane)
🏢 Australian Retirement Trust
📍 Brisbane