IT Audit Manager, Corporate Technology & Cybersecurity - HYBRID

• Lead executive-level discussions with technology, security, risk, finance, and business leaders, including the CTO, CISO, CRO, and their direct reports. Set expectations, resolve disagreements constructively, and communicate significant risks and conclusions.
• Set audit objectives, risk assessment, scope, criteria, resources, and timing. Challenge scope against the audit universe, enterprise architecture, regulations, prior findings, emerging technology, and dependencies to ensure complete coverage and supportable exclusions.
• Direct audits across the technology and cybersecurity programs identified in this profile. Apply deep technical audit judgment or bring in qualified subject-matter expertise where a specialized area requires it.
• Ensure audit scopes assess security-asset configuration and operation: baselines, rules/settings, privileged access, logging/monitoring, encryption, certificate lifecycle, changes, and exceptions.
• Direct and challenge configuration-focused audit coverage across the assigned specialty, including identity and privileged access, network security and segmentation, cloud security architecture and WAF, Security Operations monitoring and response, vulnerability management, or data-protection controls such as DLP, encryption, and key management.
• Oversee the Lead and audit team; review plans, walkthroughs, sampling, procedures, evidence, workpapers, issue evaluations, and reporting for quality and support.
• Own engagement decisions, issue severity/root cause, action plans, and reports. Escalate promptly and resolve differences while preserving audit independence.
• Present plans, status, results, and significant risks to Internal Audit leadership, executives, regulators, and examiners; keep examination materials complete and supportable.
• Coordinate with assurance teams and external auditors on reliance while protecting Internal Audit scope and conclusions.
• Coach auditors, build technical capability, manage concurrent-project resources and deadlines, and improve audit methods, continuous auditing, and analytics.

• At least 8 years of relevant experience, including leading complex IT or cybersecurity audits and advising on technology risks and controls. Experience must include leading operational cybersecurity or data-risk audits. Demonstrated experience managing teams and engaging senior client leadership is required.
• Extensive IT/cybersecurity audit leadership in one or more domains: Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)/threat hunting; Security Operations/incident response; endpoint/network security; data security/protection/privacy; insider risk/digital forensics; Offensive Security/penetration testing/application security; vulnerability/patch management; identity and access management; cloud security/service management (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform); PKI/certificate management; network/technology operations; IT asset management; change/release management; Secure SDLC; data management; IT/IS governance/strategy; business continuity/disaster recovery; technology portfolio, project, and program management. Assess scope completeness and direct related work. Hands-on security-configuration audit experience with firewalls, SIEM, cloud security, WAF, encryption, or certificates is required.
• Primary leadership depth in at least one of these complementary areas: (1) IAM/PAM and identity architecture, including CyberArk and Active Directory; network security, including firewalls and segmentation; or cloud security architecture and WAF; or (2) Security Operations, including monitoring and incident response; vulnerability management; or Data Protection, including DLP, encryption, key management, and data controls. Experience with comparable tools is acceptable.
• Familiarity with official security guidance for Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, including Azure network security best practices, the AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar, and Google Cloud Well-Architected security guidance. Able to apply relevant guidance when evaluating audit scope, architecture, control design, and operating effectiveness.
• Advanced understanding of risk assessment, internal control design and operating effectiveness, audit evidence, sampling, issue development, and accepted internal audit standards.
• Strong executive presence, negotiation, writing, presentation, and relationship-building skills; sound judgment in sensitive or high-pressure discussions.

• CISA or equivalent (CISM, CISSP, CRISC, CIPP/US) strongly preferred
• Banking IT audit and regulatory examination experience are preferred. Relevant IT or cybersecurity coursework, professional training, or hands-on experience is valued. Familiarity with AuditBoard, Power BI, ServiceNow, Jira, or SailPoint is helpful.

First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).

First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.