Operations Audit Program Lead

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. 
 

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

We are seeking an Operations Audit Program & Project Manager to support the development and execution of our Operations Audit Program within Internal Audit. This role will be instrumental in building a modern, risk-aligned audit capability across key operational areas while ensuring disciplined execution of audit projects.

This individual will operate across program development, audit execution, and project management, helping translate enterprise and operational risks into a structured, scalable audit approach while driving consistency, quality, and efficiency in delivery.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support the design and ongoing development of the Operations Audit Program, aligned to enterprise risk priorities across key business functions
• Translate risk assessment outputs into an executable audit roadmap, including prioritization, sequencing, and resource planning
• Establish and maintain program governance, including milestones, KPIs, and status reporting
• Support the VP, Internal Audit in partnering with business leaders (Finance, GTM, HR, Legal, and Operations) to align on audit scope, timing, and approach, ensuring audits are practical and minimize disruption
• Lead high-level planning and scoping for operational audit engagements, including defining objectives, scope boundaries, key risks, and success criteria
• Onboard and transition audit engagements to the assigned Audit Lead, ensuring clarity of scope, expectations, timelines, and stakeholder alignment
• Serve as project manager for operational audit engagements, ensuring clear scope, timelines, and deliverables
• Coordinate across Internal Audit, co-sourcing partners, and business stakeholders to drive efficient execution
• Monitor progress across multiple concurrent audits, proactively identifying and managing risks, dependencies, and constraints
• Drive transparency and accountability across the audit portfolio, ensuring leadership has clear visibility into status and outcomes
• Support development of Audit Committee and executive-level reporting, including audit plan progress and key themes
• Drive consistency in audit execution through standardized tools, templates, and methodologies
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes and reduce friction, leveraging audit insights, data, and stakeholder feedback
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Internal Audit processes, tools, and capabilities

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong understanding of operational risk domains, including business processes, financial and operational controls, and enterprise risk management concepts
• Proven project and program management capabilities, with experience managing complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into structured, executable plans
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and quality
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Familiarity with data analytics, automation, and process improvement methodologies is highly desirable
• High degree of professionalism, integrity, and sound judgment

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field
• 12+. years of relevant experience in internal audit, operational risk, consulting, or program/project management in a complex organization
• Experience managing audit projects, operational programs, or large-scale initiatives
• Experience working with or supporting Internal Audit functions is preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional certifications such as PMP, CIA, CPA, or equivalent
• Experience in a global technology or SaaS environment
• Prior people management experience is a plus, with demonstrated ability to lead and develop others, as this role may evolve to include team leadership responsibilities over time
• Experience working with co-sourcing partners or third-party service providers

Travel Requirements:

This role requires the ability to travel up to 25% of the time, including occasional international travel

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice. 

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting [email protected].