Senior Internal Audit Manager, Financial Controls & Assurance

Overview

In this role you will establish and lead a risk-based internal audit programme across CloudPay’s global payroll and payments environment, providing independent assurance to senior leadership and the Board on the design and effectiveness of key controls. You will identify control gaps, drive improvements, and strengthen governance in a fast-growing organisation. You will partner with multiple business functions to embed control ownership and support growth with pragmatic, actionable recommendations. This is a chance to shape risk management and assurance in a regulated, technology-driven payroll platform.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life Assurance
• EAP

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a global risk-based internal audit plan
• Lead and perform internal audits across financial, operational and technology
• Evaluate the design and effectiveness of key internal controls
• Deliver clear audit reports with actionable recommendations
• Monitor remediation activities and validate closure of audit findings
• Provide independent assurance on controls supporting payroll, payment and financial operations
• Assess controls including SoD, payment authorisation, four-eyes, payroll validation, bank account management, journal approvals, reconciliations, access controls, vendor onboarding, change management
• Support external assurance activities (SOC, ISO, regulatory) and coordinate internal testing to meet customer assurance commitments
• Enable risk and control self-assessment with business stakeholders
• Partner with Risk Management, Compliance, Enterprise Risk, Finance & Operations for governance and horizon scanning
• Develop strong relationships with Security, Finance, Payroll Operations, Payments, Product and Technology teams
• Present audit findings to senior leadership and governance committees
• Promote accountability and continuous improvement

Key requirements

• Extensive experience in Internal Audit, Operational Risk, Financial Controls, SOX, Assurance or related field
• Proven ability to assess financial and operational controls in complex organisations
• Strong understanding of SoD, financial control frameworks, delegated authority, payment and treasury controls, fraud risk management, control design and testing
• Experience developing and executing risk-based audit programmes
• Strong stakeholder management and executive reporting
• Excellent report writing and communication skills
• Ability to translate technical control concepts into practical business recommendations

• Stakeholder management
• Communication
• Influencing under parity with senior leadership
• SOX / financial controls
• Control design and testing
• Risk-based audit planning

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