Internal Audit Function Development Training Course

Name: Internal Audit Function Development and Performance Training Course
Availability: InStock

Design the audit function operating model, monitor its effectiveness, and govern a practical improvement roadmap.

Internal Audit Function Development Training Course

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Duration: 5 days
Format: Classroom
Cities: Dubai, Milan, Doha, Tbilisi, San Diego, Amsterdam and more
Next session: 12 – 16 October 2026, Dubai
Average fee: 5,800 €

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Internal Audit Function Development and Performance Training Course

Overview

Internal Audit Function Development and Performance Training Course is a five-day course for audit executives, directors, managers, quality leaders, and methodology professionals who leave with an Audit Function Operating Model Toolkit. The course connects mandate, service design, organization, workforce, technology, methodology, performance monitoring, stakeholder reporting, and improvement governance. Agile Leaders Training Center delivers this course on internal audit function development.

Who Should Attend

Internal audit leadership functions responsible for function design, direction, and accountability
Audit operations functions responsible for capacity, workflow, and delivery monitoring
Audit methodology functions responsible for policies, templates, and review controls
Quality functions responsible for monitoring, assessment, and improvement actions
Governance support functions responsible for stakeholder reporting and oversight information

The course assumes participants lead or support internal audit operations and leaves out introductory engagement testing, standards certification, and enterprise risk management design.

Departments and Industries

The course supports development and monitoring of internal audit functions across service, operational, and institutional settings.

Internal audit, assurance, and audit operations
Governance, risk, compliance, and quality functions
Banking, insurance, and professional services
Manufacturing, energy, and engineering organizations
Healthcare, education, and public-service institutions
Technology, telecommunications, and logistics organizations

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Evaluate the mandate, charter, services, and maturity of an audit function
Build an operating model with roles, governance, and decision rights
Design workforce, sourcing, technology, and methodology arrangements
Analyze capacity, delivery, quality, and stakeholder performance evidence
Build reporting dashboards and improvement governance controls
Prioritize initiatives through a sequenced function-development roadmap

Course Agenda

Day 1: Function Baseline and Service Design

Internal Audit Function Maturity Diagnostic
Mandate and Charter Currency Review
Assurance and Advisory Service Portfolio Map
Stakeholder Expectation Interview Guide
Function Development Case-for-Change Canvas

Day 2: Operating Model and Governance

Internal Audit Operating Model Blueprint
Organization Structure and Role Accountability Matrix
Decision Rights and Escalation Framework
Planning Delivery and Reporting Workflow Map
Board and Management Interface Calendar

Day 3: Resources Technology and Methodology

Workforce Capacity and Skills Forecast
Build Buy and Cosource Decision Matrix
Audit Technology Capability Roadmap
Methodology and Template Architecture
Knowledge Management and Competency Plan

Day 4: Performance Quality and Improvement

Function Performance Objective Tree
Capacity Delivery and Value Measure Scorecard
Ongoing Quality Monitoring Control Set
Stakeholder Reporting Dashboard
Improvement Initiative Governance Register

Day 5: Function Development Practice

Suggested Exercise: Maturity and Service Portfolio Assessment
Suggested Exercise: Operating Model and Accountability Design
Suggested Exercise: Resource and Technology Option Evaluation
Suggested Exercise: Performance and Quality Dashboard Review
Capstone Exercise: Audit Function Operating Model Toolkit

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to connect function design choices with operating evidence and improvement decisions.

Suggested activity: diagnose maturity, stakeholder needs, and service gaps for a financial-services audit function.
Suggested activity: design roles, decision rights, workflow, and governance interfaces for a manufacturing organization.
Suggested activity: compare workforce, cosourcing, technology, and methodology options for a healthcare institution.
Suggested activity: build performance measures, reporting views, initiative owners, and a sequenced improvement roadmap.

FAQs

Who suits internal audit function development, and what does the course assume?

Internal audit function development suits professionals who already manage audit operations, methodology, quality, resources, or stakeholder reporting and need a function-level design and monitoring approach.

How does internal audit function development differ from standards implementation training?

Internal audit function development focuses on the operating model, service portfolio, resources, technology, measures, and improvement roadmap, while standards implementation training focuses on interpreting and applying professional requirements.

What is an internal audit operating model?

An internal audit operating model defines how mandate, services, structure, roles, decisions, workflows, resources, technology, methodology, governance interfaces, and performance controls work together.

How is internal audit function performance monitored?

Internal audit function performance is monitored through objectives and measures covering capacity, delivery, quality, stakeholder expectations, action completion, service outcomes, and improvement progress.

How does quality monitoring support internal audit function improvement?

Quality monitoring provides recurring evidence about methodology use, supervision, delivery consistency, performance objectives, stakeholder feedback, and improvement actions, enabling leaders to prioritize changes and track their effects.

Conclusion

Participants leave with an Audit Function Operating Model Toolkit linking baseline, services, structure, resources, technology, methodology, measures, and improvement governance. The toolkit changes isolated management activities into an operating system for the audit function. It provides a working basis for monitoring performance and sequencing development initiatives.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Dubai	Week 42, 2026 12 – 16 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Milan	Week 42, 2026 12 – 16 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Doha	Week 42, 2026 18 – 22 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,500
Tbilisi	Week 44, 2026 26 – 30 October 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,000
San Diego	Week 45, 2026 2 – 6 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€14,000
Amsterdam	Week 46, 2026 9 – 13 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Toronto	Week 46, 2026 15 – 19 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€12,000
Madrid	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Phuket	Week 47, 2026 22 – 26 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€6,000
Casablanca	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,100
Abu Dhabi	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,700
Johannesburg	Week 48, 2026 29 November – 3 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Zanzibar	Week 49, 2026 6 – 10 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,500
Dubai	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Muscat	Week 50, 2026 13 – 17 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Vienna	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Langkawi	Week 52, 2026 27 – 31 December 2026	5 Days	Onsite	€6,000
Athens	Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€6,700
Abu Dhabi	Week 01, 2027 4 – 8 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,700
Munich	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700

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OverviewInternal Audit Function Development and Performance Training Course is a five-day course for audit executives, directors, managers, quality leaders, and methodology professionals who leave with an Audit Function Operating Model Toolkit. The course connects mandate, service design, organization, workforce, technology, methodology, performance monit…

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Internal Audit Function Development Training Course