Internal Audit Manager at Legora in New York, NY

Job description

About Us Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar. Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes. 1,000+ customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $100M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview. We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law. Joining Legora means three things. • We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions. • We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback. • We grow together: as a team and with our customers. Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts. If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place. The Role We're hiring an Internal Audit Manager to own our Business Process (BP) SOX controls program. You'll sit close to Finance and Internal Audit leadership, owning the risk assessment that shapes our controls universe and building testing processes from scratch. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role for someone who wants to build a program, not just run one. You'll be the primary coordinator with external audit and our co-source partner, and you'll bring a modern, tech-forward lens — actively applying AI to reduce manual testing effort and find efficiencies as the function scales. What You’ll Do You'll work closely with Finance, process owners, external audit, and our co-source partner to build a rigorous, efficient business process controls program from the ground up. More than that, we believe you will thrive by taking ownership of: • Owning the end to end risk assessment process and translating it into a prioritized controls testing plan • Designing new testing processes, workpaper templates, and documentation frameworks from scratch • Coordinating with external audit and the co-source partner on timelines, deliverables, and open items for BP controls • Leading and performing control walkthroughs with process owners across the business • Assessing control deficiencies for severity and root cause, and driving remediation plans to completion • Developing and delivering training to control owners and stakeholders on control design and testing expectations • Implementing AI-driven and automated solutions to reduce manual testing and improve efficiency • Collaborating with stakeholders across Finance, IT, and the business as a trusted advisor What You Bring • CPA, CIA, or similar certification • Big 4 or co-source firm experience • 5+ years of experience in internal audit, SOX/internal controls, or a related risk/compliance function, including experience managing or mentoring others • Demonstrated experience building or significantly enhancing a controls program or testing methodology from scratch • Strong track record managing external audit and/or co-source relationships • Hands-on experience performing and overseeing walkthroughs, testing, and deficiency evaluation • Proficiency with Auditboard, Vanta, NetSuite, Google Docs/Workspace, major LLM providers (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini), Salesforce, and Workday • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain control concepts to non-audit stakeholders • A high degree of ownership and comfort building process where none exists Nice to Have • Experience building or scaling a controls function through a period of rapid growth • Prior experi