Internal Audit Technology Lead

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Stripe builds the most powerful and flexible tools for running an internet business. We handle hundreds of billions of dollars each year and enable millions of users around the world to scale faster and more efficiently by building their businesses on Stripe. To further this important mission, Stripe has built a world class Internal Audit (IA) team. Our mission is to make the business better as it grows. We are consumed with the goal of being agile with the business, powered by technology and seamlessly accelerating the speed of controls integration and compliance adoption.

Our IA team is responsible for providing objective assurance of Stripe’s products, processes and technology, its compliance with laws and regulations, its risk management framework and other governance processes. We also assist as an advisory partner in preparing targeted analyses, product/infrastructure/security evaluations, systems design assessments, and policy implementation reviews.

We’re looking for an experienced technology auditor with Fintech audit experience to help us deliver and expand a global audit program, who will serve as a key member of the IA technology audit pillar reporting to the Head of Technology Audit Pillar, and drive demonstrable business impact.

This position is based in the US, preferably in the Seattle office.

What you’ll do

As a Technology Lead within the IA Tech team, you will be an active contributor to the overall strategy of IT audit at stripe, shape technical design of multiple technology audits, drive decision making, and ensure seamless execution through all the audit phases—from planning to delivery.

The ideal candidate will have deep technical discussions with our engineering, operations and security teams to understand controls, processes deliver exceptional results through building and implementing audit programs that help protect our users and serve the business. Also, this person should be someone who has experience formally managing multiple audit and technical programs and enjoys them.

Responsibilities

• Develop a risk-based technology audit plan across product, infrastructure, business systems and corporate technology.
• Plan and execute technical complex audits, consulting engagements, and other influencing activities of supporting operations, and processes.
• Serve as IA’s SME on technology related considerations across IA audit projects and within the organization.
• Manage co-sourced service providers while delivering our audit plan.
• Support the development of the annual and longer-term strategy for a risk-based audit plan shaped for Stripe’s expanding global operations and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with IA functional leads for analytics, technology and finance/operations to form integrated approaches.
• Support the growth of a team of skilled and experienced auditors.
• Seamlessly liaise with external auditors and regulators in connection with technology audit work.
• Lead ad-hoc programs and initiatives to provide advisory insights.
• Work seamlessly with key global partners within the second lines of defense to build efficiencies into the audit plan and avoid duplication of activities.
• Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Secure management action plans for remediation, and monitor remediation progress and timeliness.
• Perform outreach and maintain collaborative working relationships with partners across product, engineering, security, corporate technology, finance systems and business systems.
• Invest in understanding the business to better identify areas of need and opportunities to advise.
• Research and stay current on new technical literature applicable, emerging trends and best practices.
• Act as the independent voice of the user as part of the audit process in secu