Internal Audit Manager

Pleo is a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation dedicated to excellence in handling risks across everything we do. We're looking for a visionary
Internal Audit Manager
to establish and lead our Internal Audit function. This is a unique opportunity to take full ownership of creating an internal audit framework, ensuring best practices, and driving a culture of integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement across the company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish the Internal Audit function: Develop and implement a comprehensive internal audit framework, tailored to the needs of a regulated financial services organization
• Audit planning and execution: Design and execute risk-based audit plans, ensuring coverage of key operational, regulatory, and financial risks
• Stakeholder collaboration: Work closely with senior stakeholders, including board members, executive leadership, and operational teams, to ensure alignment on audit objectives and findings
• Co-sourcing: Manage co-sourced audit projects, collaborating effectively with third-party experts on specialised topics to deliver robust and insightful audit results
• Foster an audit culture: Build and promote a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement throughout the organization
• Regulatory alignment: Ensure the audit function supports compliance with relevant regulatory requirements, particularly those applicable to payment service providers and e-money institutions
• Reporting and communication: Present clear, concise, and actionable audit findings and recommendations to the Board and other governance committees

Qualifications and Experience needed:

• Proven experience in the financial services sector, ideally within payment service providers or e-money institutions
• A track record of establishing or significantly evolving an Internal Audit function in a regulated environment
• Experience managing teams and collaborating with third-party service providers in a co-sourcing model
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
• Deep understanding of regulatory requirements for financial services in the UK and EEA, particularly for e-money institutions
• Analytical mindset with the ability to assess complex issues and deliver practical solutions
• A self-motivated individual ready to take ownership, set strategic direction, and execute with excellence

Show me the benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets
• Private health insurance to ensure you're fit in body and mind to do your best work
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• For our teams we offer remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• We're trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work

Why join us?
Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means 'more than you'd expect', and it's been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it's only fitting that we'd pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.

We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn't be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.

Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is 'champion the customer', which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is 'succeed as a team', which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also 'make it happen' by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we 'build to scale', creating lasting solutions that address today's challenges and anticipate tomorrow's needs.

So, in a nutshell, that's Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries Being HQ'd out of Copenhagen means we're inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don't work in the office with us, we'll help you set up the best remote setup possible
and
make sure you still have time to connect with your team.

About Your Application

• Please submit your application in English; it's our company language so you'll be speaking lots of it if you join
• We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there Our lovely support isn't able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone
• We're on a mission to make everyone feel valued at work. That's only achievable if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs
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