Assurance Manager EU/UK

Overview

As an Entity Assurance Manager, you will own the second-line control environment across Trustly’s EU and UK licensed entities. You’ll align local requirements with global assurance standards, report to Boards, and serve as the primary contact for regulators. You’ll work with domain assurance, ERM, and Internal Audit to ensure consistent, credible assurance across the organization. This role shapes how assurance is applied to regulatory expectations and risk governance in a fast-growing fintech.

Pay / Benefits

• 20 to 30 days of holiday
• Monthly team outing allowance
• Parental leave top-up
• On-site perks
• Well being support (health allowance)
• Plus additional benefits designed to enhance your work-life experience

Responsibilities

• Maintain a single, defensible view of the second-line control environment across EU/UK entities and map findings to the ERM taxonomy.
• Confirm local regulatory applicability of domain testing scope and methodology for each entity.
• Own entity assurance opinions and reporting to the entity Board and local management; support the entity CCO attestations.
• Contribute to annual assurance and master testing plans; prevent gaps or duplication of coverage.
• Act as primary liaison with EU/UK regulators, building productive relationships on assurance matters.
• Maintain independence by ensuring oversight without entering first-line operations.
• Track findings using a unified issue taxonomy and alignment with Internal Audit standards.
• Support Internal Audit reliance by maintaining transparent audit trails per test and documenting risk-accepted changes.
• Contribute to standardized reporting, including KRIs on control health, aging of issues, and remediation progress across entities.

Key requirements

• Experience in compliance assurance, second-line risk, or related control function within FinTech/payments or regulated financial services.
• Proven engagement with EU/UK financial supervisory authorities and credibility with regulators.
• Strong understanding of EU/UK regulatory landscape for payments and e-money, including financial crime, safeguarding, consumer protection, and resilience.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end assurance reviews (planning to reporting and validation).
• Knowledge of the three-lines model and independence boundaries between lines.
• Advanced knowledge of control testing, sampling, issue rating, and evidence standards; linkage to risk taxonomy.
• Experience with GRC platforms and unified issue registers; meticulous control findings documentation.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills (Board-ready).
• Willingness to collaborate across time zones.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Relationship-building with regulators and cross-functional teams
• Detail-oriented and rigorous in maintaining evidence and audit trails
• GRC platforms
• Unified issue registers
• Control testing methodologies

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