Internal Audit Remediation Consultant

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Our client is seeking a senior consultant to lead and oversee a critical capital asset inventory remediation initiative. This role requires an experienced executive capable of driving accountability, maintaining project momentum, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring successful execution against established timelines, budgets, and objectives.

The ideal candidate combines strong program management and remediation experience with an executive-level background in audit, risk, finance, controls, or governance. Success in this engagement will be measured by the ability to drive progress, remove obstacles, manage stakeholder alignment, and advance the remediation initiative toward successful completion.

This is a fractional consulting engagement requiring approximately 24 to 32 hours per week in a hybrid environment (onsite preferred, downtown Chicago).

Key Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on leadership and oversight of a complex capital asset remediation initiative.
• Drive execution against approved project plans, timelines, milestones, budgets, and success metrics.
• Maintain accountability across project teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors.
• Monitor progress, identify risks and dependencies, and proactively address barriers to execution.
• Escalate significant risks, delays, resource constraints, and decision points requiring executive attention.
• Coordinate cross-functional resources and stakeholders to support successful delivery.
• Review project reporting and provide challenge, guidance, and recommendations to improve outcomes.
• Promote urgency, transparency, and disciplined follow-through across all aspects of the program.
• Ensure executive leadership receives clear visibility into project status, risks, issues, and required actions.
• Foster alignment among finance, operations, asset management, and executive stakeholders.
• Support governance, decision-making, and executive communications related to the remediation initiative.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale remediation, transformation, PMO, corrective action, or enterprise change initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects involving timelines, budgets, resources, vendors, risks, and executive reporting.
• Experience with capital assets, inventory management, fixed assets, asset accounting, financial controls, or comparable operational remediation efforts.
• Former Chief Audit Executive, Chief Audit Officer, Internal Audit Director, Internal Audit Partner, Managing Director, or similar executive leadership role preferred.
• Strong understanding of internal controls, risk management, governance, and financial reporting environments.
• Significant experience working with Boards of Directors, Audit Committees, CFOs, CEOs, and executive leadership teams.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, challenge constructively, and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to operate effectively within complex, highly matrixed organizations.

The salary range for this position is $90/hour to $120/hour. Benefits available to contract/temporary professionals include medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit Roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.

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