Director, Internal Audit & Process Compliance
Nerdy is searching for a Director of Internal Audit and Process Compliance to join our team, based out of our corporate office in St. Louis, Missouri. At Nerdy, we're transforming the future of learning through rigorous operational excellence and meticulous process compliance. As the Director, Internal Audit and Process Compliance, you will serve as the essential centralized auditor, proactively ensuring critical operational tasks and processes across our vertically integrated platform consistently execute without fail. Reporting to the Corporate Vice President & Controller in the Office of the CFO, you will adopt a highly methodical, assertive auditing approach combined with proactive, impactful process improvements to protect and enhance our operational integrity. Your success will directly contribute to minimizing risk, reducing costly errors, and ultimately improving the learner experience through unwavering accountability.
This role reports to the Corporate Vice President & Controller in the Office of the CFO, aligning with their disciplined approach to compliance assurance and proactive process excellence.
At Nerdy, you will take ownership of a critical compliance function that directly impacts our operational effectiveness and learner satisfaction. Join a passionate, high-performing team where your rigorous auditing discipline, assertiveness, and proactive approach to continuous improvement will be highly valued. If meticulous auditing, process excellence, and operational accountability excite you, this role is your opportunity to profoundly influence and safeguard the future of a leading edtech company.
About Nerdy:
Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) is a leading platform for live online learning, with a mission to transform the way people learn through technology. The Company’s purpose-built proprietary platform leverages technology, including AI, to connect learners of all ages to experts, delivering superior value on both sides of the network. Nerdy’s comprehensive learning destination provides learning experiences across 3,000+ subjects and multiple formats—including one-on-one instruction, small group classes, large format group classes, and adaptive self-study. Their proprietary platform leverages AI to personalize the experience for Learners of all ages —from kindergarten to professional—in academic, test prep, enrichment, and certification subjects. Nerdy’s flagship business, Varsity Tutors, is one of the nation’s largest platforms for live online tutoring and classes. Its solutions are available directly to students and consumers, as well as through schools and other institutions. Learn more about Nerdy at https://www.nerdy.com/.
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Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s degree (required) in Business, Finance, Operations, Industrial Engineering, or related fields. Advanced degree (preferred) such as an MBA or Master’s in Operations Management, Finance, or related fields.
Experience: Proven success in auditing, compliance management, risk management, or internal controls within operationally complex environments.
Technical Skills: Familiarity with auditing software, data analytics platforms, and automated monitoring tools to efficiently scale auditing functions.
Analytical Rigor: Strong ability to interpret complex data and translate it into precise, actionable recommendations.
Assertive Communication: Skilled in assertive communication, capable of maintaining accountability and influencing diverse operational teams.
Process Mastery: Meticulous in documenting, auditing, and refining complex processes to prevent costly operational breakdowns.
Auditing and Compliance Experience (Preferred): Professional certification or significant experience in internal audit, compliance, or risk management.
Key Responsibilities:
Serve as the centralized accountability mechanism, ensuring critical business processes are consistently executed across finance, operations, implementation, and other teams.
Immediately identify, document, escalate, and drive resolution of deviations or failures in operational processes, ensuring swift corrective action.
Collaborate closely, yet independently, with operational and technical teams to document existing upstream processes, highlight gaps, and enforce the creation of new processes when necessary.
Develop and maintain comprehensive process documentation, audit trails, and compliance checklists, clearly demonstrating adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Establish and enforce robust escalation procedures, ensuring operational teams remain accountable and do not deprioritize essential recurring processes.
Leverage data strategically to enhance audit efficiency and scalability, influencing technology solutions without being solely responsible for their technical implementation.
Leadership Principles:
Bias for Action: Unwavering commitment to accountability, proactively anticipating and mitigating operational risks.
Go Deep: Exceptional precision and methodical approach to auditing and process documentation.
Have Conviction: Capable of enforcing strict adherence to process compliance, ensuring operational consistency.
Insist on High Standards: Thrives in independent roles requiring rigorous follow-through and disciplined process management.
Apolitical: Embraces and supports Nerdy as an apolitical company and recognizes that we can have the largest impact if we are united in our focus on helping people learn and not divided or distracted by advancing unrelated causes.
To see our entire list of Leadership Principles, click here.
Benefits:
Total Compensation Package including Competitive Salary and Equity (Restricted Stock Units) in the company.
Healthcare Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life).
401k Company Matching Plan (with no vesting period!)
Maternity, Paternal, and Adoption Leave.
Flexible PTO.
Free Learning Membership for you and your household (1-1 tutoring hours, unlimited use of on-demand services, and access to our online classes).
Unique opportunity to help transform how the world learns!
Nerdy is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
