Head of Internal Audit

Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company®, one of four San Diego based S&P 500 companies dedicated to providing shareholders with dependable monthly income. Our company is structured as a REIT, and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow, over 6,500 real estate properties owned under long-term lease agreements with regional and national commercial tenants. To date, our company has declared over 600 consecutive common stock monthly dividends throughout its 52-year operating history and has continually increased the dividend since Realty Income's public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O). Our company attracts individuals who value integrity, perseverance, and teamwork. If you appreciate working on a truly collaborative team in a professional environment in a company that encourages a work-life balance, make sure to apply today!

As Realty Income’s Head of Internal Audit, you will be responsible for providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice, and insight designed to enhance and protect organizational value. Your leadership expertise will be chief, as you will spearhead the Company’s Internal Audit function including the Internal Audit Plan, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Enterprise Risk Management. Your day-to-day may include improving processes, monitoring progress, and designing audits to evaluate the Company’s strengths and the processes employed by management to effectively identify and manage risk. Your role is integral to the oversight and evaluation of internal control over financial reporting.

Your Contribution to the Team Includes

Strategy

• Plan, develop, organize, implement, direct and evaluate the organization's internal audit function to deliver value-added services to the organization.
• Serve as a strategic partner to executive management with regard to organizational change, particularly from the perspective of governance, risk, and compliance.
• Participate on the Risk Committee with oversight of information security, records information management, enterprise application software, business continuity/disaster recovery, insurance, litigation/claims, and compliance.
• Participate in companywide initiatives such as Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DE&I) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG).

Team Development and Leadership

• Provide leadership, mentorship, and coaching to successfully grow and develop the team.
• Establish credibility and organizational trust to cultivate and inspire a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement with a commitment to maintaining high standards of integrity and professionalism.
• Lead change management strategies and plans as needed within the department and broader organization.

Internal Audit Function

• Develop and maintain the Internal Audit Charter.
• Supervise the work of the Senior Auditors as well as engage and manage co-sourcing and external audit relationships for Sarbanes-Oxley and Internal Audit projects.
• Present findings and recommendations to the Audit Committee and actively monitor audit related remediation and management action plans.
• Keep Audit Committee informed of all significant, relevant concerns impacting the Committee’s responsibilities or the responsibilities of the Internal Audit department.

Sarbanes-Oxley

• Develop and implement Sarbanes-Oxley compliance best practices.
• Interpret changes in the regulatory environment (e.g., SEC, PCAOB) or industry frameworks (e.g., COSO) and provide recommendations to meet those requirements and improve business processes. 
• Develop the Sarbanes-Oxley risk assessment including COSO 2013 evaluation.
• Supervise and review the Senior Auditor’s maintenance of the Sarbanes-Oxley risk control matrices which map internal controls to related control objectives and financial statement and disclosure assertions.
• Supervise and review the Senior Auditor’s testing to evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls.
• Report to senior management, external auditors, and the Audit Committee regarding approach, timing, and performance as well as identified deficiencies.

Enterprise Risk Management

• Develop and implement enterprise risk management best practices.
• Facilitate the identification and evaluation of risks.
• Coordinate enterprise risk management activities.
• Maintain the enterprise risk management framework.
• Report annually, or as requested, to the Board of Directors on enterprise risk management.

Internal Audit Plan

• Leverage the enterprise risk assessment and framework to drive the development of the Internal Audit Plan.
• Design audits to evaluate the Company’s strengths and the processes employed by management to effectively identify and manage risk. 
• Ensure identified audit findings have been vetted with appropriate management.
• Provide value added recommendations to improve processes.
• Ensure audit results are presented in a clear and concise manner.
• Monitor progress to ensure corrective actions are implemented timely. 
• Evaluate specific operations at the request of the Audit Committee or management, as requested.
• Communicate results of audit and consulting projects via written reports and/or oral presentations to management and the Audit Committee.

Data Analytics

• Support the development and deployment of data analytics and data visualization to deliver business intelligence.