Sr. Program Manager, Internal Audit

What to Expect

Tesla Internal Audit Team’s mission is to protect the company by calling attention to critical risks and driving management action to address those risks (financial, operational and regulatory). Internal projects are driven by two guiding principles – Keep Tesla Safe and Enable Operational Excellence. Tesla is revolutionizing transportation through our Robotaxi fleet and solving real world AI. The Team plays a key role in achieving this objective by collaborating with functional and business/product groups to identify areas of risk, making valuable recommendations on process and control improvements, cost reduction, and operational excellence. Internal Audit team works closely with executive leadership to identify areas of risk, make valuable recommendations on process and control standardization, and influence decision-making process to drive change. The successful candidate will possess the ability to function independently, apply professional judgment, interface with all levels of management, and communicate complex matters clearly and succinctly.

What You’ll Do

• Adopt risk-based approach to independently identify, evaluate, summarize and communicate critical risk in high growth products/business segments
• Assess control design and support implementation of key financial reporting processes for future products and emerging technology (Robotaxi, Optimus and Terafab)
• Evaluate impact to financial reporting controls and drive standardization across regions in control design and operational execution
• Lead financial audits and initiatives to identify and recommend control enhancements by leveraging data analysis techniques
• Provide management with outlined solutions to drive risk reduction, process improvement and enhanced control design for effective risk mitigation
• Partner with business and utilize knowledge of financial processes, financial reporting risk, and internal controls to design to enable change
• Prepare and provide written and oral reports, communications and/or presentations to management

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, or equivalent experience
• 12+ years of experience in Financial Controls, Assurance, and Operational Audit (process and performance improvement, business transformation), Finance, or a blend of related experience in relevant industries
• Experience with AI Tools/Agents and implementation of controls as per COSO framework (business and IT)
• Big 4 consulting experience within advisory or assurance practice. CPA, CA, CIA, CPIM or other relevant certifications
• Ability to navigate through ambiguity, manage and coordinate multiple project assignments simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, accepting ownership and accountability of the process and delivering on commitments
• Leadership skills including the ability to take charge, coach, interact with all levels of the organization, set objectives, and drive results
• Intensely curious, solution-oriented individual who wants to know what, where, when, how, and (most importantly) why processes work the way they do