Senior Internal Auditor at mercury

**Who this is for** This role is for a Senior Internal Auditor passionate about ensuring the trust and safety of a fintech banking platform. You will play a cru

Work type: remote

Location: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States

Salary: $132,400 – $165,500/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** This role is for a Senior Internal Auditor passionate about ensuring the trust and safety of a fintech banking platform. You will play a crucial part in executing the internal audit plan, supporting external audits, and becoming a subject matter expert on Mercury's operations and compliance obligations. **Key highlights** You will identify, analyze, and assess risks, scope and plan audits, and conduct testing to confirm the effectiveness of internal controls. This position involves collaborating with teams to develop action plans, track remediation, and contribute to a culture of strong governance and compliance. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have experience in auditing or managing risks associated with BSA/AML, sanctions, and related operational controls within financial services. - Possess experience scoping and planning complex audits, leading audit teams, and coaching team members. - Are comfortable conducting walkthroughs, creating audit test plans, and executing internal controls testing. - Can build cross-functional relationships, manage your schedule effectively, and are a self-starter who thrives on innovation.

Job Description

Mercury is building a complete finance stack for startups. We work hard to create the easiest and safest banking experience possible to simplify entrepreneurs' and business owners’ financial lives. To accomplish this mission, not only do we have to build/maintain a magical banking platform but must also develop and uphold the trust and safety of our customers and the financial industry. To contribute to this effort, we’re looking to hire a Senior Internal Auditor to support the efforts of our Internal Audit function at Mercury in the execution of our audit plan. You’ll help drive audits internally within Mercury as well as support audits being conducted externally by partners and third parties. Over time, you will become a subject matter expert on Mercury’s operations and compliance obligations.

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.*

As part of the journey, we would expect you to:

Assist in identifying, analyzing, and assessing risk throughout Mercury and contribute to the development of the annual audit plan

Scope and plan multiple audits across Mercury products and operations

Conduct process walkthroughs and execute audit testing to confirm the design and operational effectiveness of internal controls

Assess compliance with Mercury’s compliance obligations

Socialize, document, and report audit issues identified

Collaborate with teams to develop appropriate action plans, track audit issue remediation, and conduct issue follow up testing

Other duties as assigned

Some things that might make you successful in a role like this:

Have experience in auditing or managing risk associated with BSA/AML, sanctions, transaction monitoring, customer due diligence, unusual activity reporting, and related operational controls.

Have experience working with financial services companies, and have a working knowledge of laws, regulations and risk management standards for financial services

Have experience scoping and planning complex audits

Have experience leading audit teams and coaching team members

Be comfortable conducting walkthroughs, creating audit test plans, and executing internal controls testing

Have the ability to quickly grasp and understand complex business processes

Be able to build relationships/partnerships and work cross-functionally to drive time-sensitive deliverables, issues tracking, and reporting

Have excellent written and verbal communication skills

Be able to manage their own schedule to ensure deadlines are met

Be a self-starter, someone who likes to innovate and think about how we can do things differently to be more efficient and effective

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.

Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $132,400 - $165,500

US employees outside of the New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $119,200 - $149,000

Canadian employees (any location): CAD $125,100 - $156,400

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

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