Director Internal Audit

Job Id: R0000443739

The pay range is $135,000.00 - $243,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

Internal Audit helps bring Target’s purpose to life by providing independent assurance and risk insights that matter to a broad group of stakeholders, including the Audit & Risk Committee, executive leaders, business owners, support functions, and risk-focused partners across the enterprise. Our objective insights help strengthen performance, resilience, and confident decision-making across Target.

As a Director, Internal Audit, you will set strategic direction for your team and lead an assigned portfolio of enterprise risks, business capabilities, assurance activities, and stakeholder relationships. Your team and portfolio strategy will align with Internal Audit’s broader strategy, objectives, and key results, which you will help advance and inform through your risk insights, stakeholder relationships, and leadership across the total Internal Audit Plan. You will develop a forward-looking audit plan and continuously evolving pipeline for your assigned portfolio, informed by Target’s strategic, business, technology, data, and compliance objectives.

You will lead risk-based assurance and advisory work across your assigned portfolio and contribute to prioritization across the total Internal Audit Plan. This includes understanding current, emerging, internal, and external risks; making enterprise-minded prioritization recommendations; evaluating governance, risk management, process, technology, data, and control capabilities; and communicating practical advice and timely insights that strengthen Target’s risk management capabilities, business results, and resiliency.

You will provide clear direction and coaching to build high-performing teams that deliver quality work, exercise strong judgment, and communicate with impact. You will set expectations, hold team members accountable, support meaningful development, and build future-ready capabilities across audit judgment, risk acumen, business fluency, digital and data confidence, stakeholder partnership, curiosity, and continuous learning.

Success in this role requires inclusive and caring leadership that fosters belonging, critical thinking, professional skepticism, courage, clear communication, curiosity, adaptability, enterprise-minded partnership, and the ability to lead teams through ambiguity and change. You will help modernize how Internal Audit works by responsibly integrating data, analytics, automation, GenAI, agile concepts, and other emerging capabilities into the audit lifecycle while reinforcing human judgment, quality, confidentiality, independence, and objectivity.

Core Responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to the business needs.

About you:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience; relevant professional certifications preferred depending on portfolio, such as CPA, CIA, CISA, CISM, CRISC, PMP, data/analytics, AI, cyber, or other risk-related credentials
• 10+ years of relevant audit, risk, compliance, finance, operations, retail/business, product, data, technology, cyber, or related experience
• Strong knowledge of internal audit and enterprise risk management concepts, including risk assessment and prioritization, governance, process and internal controls, root cause analysis, issue remediation, and assurance or advisory delivery
• Demonstrated ability to lead a risk-based assurance strategy, develop a forward-looking audit pipeline, prioritize work across evolving risks, and influence enterprise-minded decisions that strengthen business outcomes and resiliency
• Strong professional judgment, critical thinking, professional skepticism, curiosity, courage, and ability to make sound decisions in ambiguity while preserving independence, objectivity, and quality
• Demonstrated executive communication, storytelling, stakeholder partnership, and influencing skills, including the ability to communicate complex risk and control topics clearly and actionably
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop team members through ambiguity and change while fostering belonging, inclusive and caring leadership, accountability, and future-ready skills, behaviors, and mindsets
• Experience in applying or leading the use of data, analytics, visualization, automation, GenAI, and other technology-enabled capabilities to solve business problems.

Benefits Eligibility

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.