About the role:

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Internal Audit - Risk & Analytics, to be part of our growing Internal Audit (IA) team. This person should have a collaborative and agile mindset, with experience building and enhancing internal audit policies, procedures, methodologies, and best practices for a rapidly growing technology/SAAS company.  

The Senior Manager, Internal Audit - Risk & Analytics, will help build out the audit function at Samsara, including developing auditing and analytic strategies, executing the full audit cycle, overseeing IA’s SOX testing program and creating solutions to make the Samsara’s processes more effective. The scope includes working closely with business stakeholders across the company to bring independent insights to address risk gaps and improve maturing areas in Samsara’s financial, operational, strategic and compliance risk areas.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best. 

Click here to learn about what we value at Samsara. 

In this role, you will: 

• Build relationships across the business and BizTech (IT & Security) teams to understand key risks, financial/business controls and control gap areas to inform IA’s audit plan
  
• Develop and execute internal audit programs that provide effective coverage over financial, operational, strategic and compliance risks and controls
  
• Collaborate with IA leadership to align on data analytics strategy, including identifying opportunities to use data analytics in audit engagements, risk assessments, department metrics, board reporting, and other initiatives
  
• Lead the development and execution of IA’s data analytics program, including program governance, procedures, methodologies, etc.
  
• Manage the execution of data analytics work supporting IA projects, including identification of observations, communication to key stakeholders, and formal reporting of results to IA leadership and senior management
  
• Represent Internal Audit as the subject matter expert on all audit data analytics
  
• Coordinate and oversee activities of the IA SOX testing outsource partner and manage their delivery schedule including quality review of all their testing workpapers
  
• Drive improvements in the SOX process, including implementing best practices, improving documentation, and driving consistency across the business
  
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
• Hire, develop and lead an inclusive, engaged, and high performing team

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 8+ years of relevant audit / risk / compliance experience
• Working knowledge or experience in extraction and exploratory analysis of data from a range of data sources, leveraging data analysis and data visualization tools and techniques (e.g. such as Tableau, SQL, IDEA, AuditBoard, etc)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate to senior executives
• Strong project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple work efforts, be agile and adapt quickly to changing needs

An ideal candidate also has:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in relevant fields of study - Business / Management Information Systems, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering / Technology or another related field is desirable.
• Demonstrated experience or aptitude to develop audit data analytics programs 
• Professional certification(s) such as CPA, Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or audit related certification
• AuditBoard dashboarding experience