Lead Specialist, Internal Audit, Controls, Compliance, Risk

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🕒 August 6

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚔 Compliance

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Pearson VUE

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Pearson VUE is a global leader in computer-based testing, providing a wide range of credentialing and certification exams for various industries. They support test-takers and test owners by offering resources, scheduling options, and accommodations to ensure equitable access to testing. Their mission is to empower candidates and enrich communities through the delivery of high-stakes exams that validate professional skills and knowledge, contributing to career advancement and industry standards.

📋 Description

• Lead the response across the internal audit lifecycle, including planning, fieldwork coordination, and reviewing draft observations, root causes, and risks • Challenge observation and management action plan ownership, wording, and feasibility • Draft and submit audit-closure proposals with stakeholder alignment • Own SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 coordination, including planning and bringing additional platforms into scope • Review evidence and return weak submissions for rework • Work with partner teams to assign resources, address gaps, and close them • Set standards for evidence, attestation, and documentation across services • Translate findings into structured remediation plans with owners, due dates, and evidence requirements • Maintain the audit-action tracker and hold action owners accountable • Coordinate audit actions owned by other teams and track them to closure • Govern the CMDB for audit scope, keeping ownership and classification accurate • Own the risk register, including quality, ownership, write-ups, closure, and escalation of risks beyond tolerance • Convert access-review and vulnerability gaps into formal risks or audit actions where appropriate • Govern the business continuity and disaster recovery program, including impact analyses, coverage and gaps, vendor continuity, annual reviews, tabletop exercises, and executive attestation • Partner with internal audit, cybersecurity, privacy, risk, and legal to close findings and prevent repeat observations • Prepare audit and GRC status updates for monthly operations reviews • Advise service owners and coach peers on governance expectations as an objective assurance partner

🎯 Requirements

• 5 or more years in internal audit, controls, compliance, or risk; IT audit or GRC strongly preferred • Hands-on coordination of SOC 2 or SOX programs, including evidence and attestation management • Demonstrated ownership of a risk register and the risk-management lifecycle • Experience governing or supporting business continuity and disaster recovery, including impact analyses, plans, tabletops, and attestation • A professional qualification is expected or strongly preferred, such as CISA, CIA, CRISC, ACA/ACCA, or CISSP • Proven ability to challenge peers and leaders and represent the organization to external auditors • Experience in EdTech, SaaS, regulated, or highly distributed environments is a plus • Familiarity with NIST CSF or ISO 22301 is a plus • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field • Advanced degree is a plus • Ability to work independently and objectively with professional skepticism and integrity • Ability to influence peers and leaders without formal authority • Ability to collaborate across security, engineering, privacy, legal, internal audit, and service-owner teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and an inclusive environment