Internal Auditor - Director
Posted Aug 25, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a proposal you wrote and won. What made it stand out?
What they are checking: Whether they can contribute to business development, which this director role explicitly requires.
Describe a time you led an audit team across several engagements at once.
What they are checking: Whether they can plan, staff and review work across projects at the director level.
How do you coach a senior consultant whose workpapers keep coming back with review notes?
What they are checking: Whether they develop people rather than just correcting work, which matters for a director's team.
What would you do
A client's management disagrees with a finding you believe is significant. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they hold their ground on evidence while keeping the client relationship workable.
Midway through fieldwork you find evidence that suspicious activity reports were not filed on time. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they recognize when an issue needs immediate escalation rather than waiting for the final report.
About the work
Walk me through how you would build a risk-based internal audit plan for a regional bank's BSA/AML program.
What they are checking: Whether they can scope audit coverage around real risk rather than running the same checklist every year.
What are the core pillars of a BSA/AML program, and where do banks most often fall short?
What they are checking: Whether they know the regulatory framework deeply enough to find the weaknesses examiners will find.
How would you test the effectiveness of a bank's OFAC screening, not just whether a policy exists?
What they are checking: Whether they test controls in practice, including list updates, fuzzy matching and alert handling.
How do you approach issue validation when a bank says it has fixed a regulatory finding?
What they are checking: Whether they confirm remediation is sustainable and working, not just that a document was updated.
How do you think about the role of technology and data analytics in internal audit for financial institutions?
What they are checking: Whether they can bring a modern, data-driven approach that matches the holistic view the posting describes.
What changes in banking regulation are you watching right now, and how would they affect an internal audit plan?
What they are checking: Whether they stay current and connect regulatory change to practical audit priorities for clients.
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