Not OP, but for banks and financial services companies, the progression can be pretty good as you climb up to Head of Risk, Audit, Compliance since it's awfully boring and not many people can stomach that as a career. I know someone who pivoted into cybersecurity but it took a lot of studying, and another became project manager for bank for implementations but that was before COVID and all the PM hype. For non-bank MNCs, progression is slower but you get great WLB and 10k-25k salary as HODs so it's not too bad. Though I can't stress enough that if you don't like internal controls testing and remembering rules and standards in external audit, you probably won't like IA.