There's a new way to take your finance career to the next level: a three-year stint in internal audit.

Increasingly, finance professionals are finding that a few years spent in internal audit can serve as a stepping stone to Chief Risk Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Operating Officer, divisional CFO, and even the CFO spot itself.

Sound strange? Thank Sarbanes-Oxley, which changed internal audit from a lifetime career with few advancement prospects to a critical rotation for finance professionals. If you've spent your whole career in internal audit, now is the time to get out. But, executive recruiters say, if you haven't spent time in internal audit, it may well be the boost your career was looking for.

Join Tim Reason, editorial director of CFO.com, as he talks to Paula Park, senior client partner of the Internal Audit and Compliance Practice at Korn/Ferry International, and Chuck Eldridge, co-managing director of Korn/Ferry International's Financial Officers Practice, about the types of industries that value internal audit, the current state of hiring for internal auditors, and why a rotation in internal audit may be the best thing that ever happened to your career.

Speakers include:

• Paula Park, Senior Client Partner and practice leader, Internal Audit & Compliance, Korn/Ferry International
• Chuck Eldridge, co-managing director of Korn/Ferry International's Financial Officers Practice