Chief Audit Officer

REQUIRED
We will only consider candidates with executive-level experience at a Big Four accounting firm. Partner, Principal or Managing Director within an audit practice. You must have signed off on large enterprise engagements, carried professional responsibility for the work, and sat in front of audit committees. Active CPA or equivalent qualification required. If your background is internal audit, compliance or advisory without audit practice leadership, this is not the right position.
The Opportunity
Vendor spend is one of the largest and least audited lines on the enterprise P&L. Vaudit verifies and audits every vendor invoice with a team of AI agents, across advertising, AI and inference, cloud, SaaS, shipping and payments. $4B+ audited. $100M+ recovered.
Every finding we produce becomes a recovery claim against a vendor. That claim is read by the client’s finance team, challenged by the vendor’s legal team, and in many cases reviewed by the client’s external auditors. The work has to hold up.
As Chief Audit Officer you own that standard. You are the professional authority behind what we assert, and the reason a Fortune 500 controller accepts a finding generated by software.
Responsibilties:
Audit standards and methodology
The audit framework underpinning every detection line, and the evidence standard a finding must meet before it leaves the building
Documentation and working-paper standards sufficient to withstand vendor challenge and external auditor review
Quality control and review process over AI-generated findings — the equivalent of engagement quality review, built for an automated environment
Materiality, sampling and scope judgments as audit coverage extends into new spend categories
Professional credibility
Independence and professional conduct framework
The technical authority in front of CFOs, controllers, audit committees and client external auditors
Our position with regulators, standard setters and the profession as automated audit matures
Technical accounting judgment where recoveries affect client reporting
Partnership with engineering
Translating professional audit standards into detection logic the engineering team can build against
Challenging what the agents assert, and defining where human judgment is required
Building toward formal attestation capability over time
What You Bring
Partner, Principal or Managing Director at a Big Four firm, within audit
Active CPA or equivalent
A record of leading complex enterprise audit engagements with full professional responsibility
Credibility and presence with audit committees and finance leadership
Genuine comfort with data, automation and technology in an audit context — you do not need to build it, but you need to interrogate it
The judgment to know where the profession’s standards apply directly, and where they need rethinking for an automated environment
Willingness to work at startup pace with a distributed team

Work arrangement
Yes