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Salary: USD 150,000 - 200,000 / annual
Column is a developer-first bank and financial infrastructure platform founded by veterans from Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm. Unlike traditional banks reliant on legacy cores and middleware, Column built its own infrastructure from the ground up—a software company that happens to be a nationally chartered bank.
You'll own the full audit lifecycle across Column's technology and banking operations. This is a high-agency role embedded with Engineering, Information Security, Payments, BSA/AML, Compliance, Lending, and Growth teams—not a back-office function. You'll design and execute end-to-end audits covering core banking, technology, compliance, fintech partnerships, lending, payments, cards, and API infrastructure, reporting directly to senior leadership.
Key responsibilities include: building and evolving a risk-based audit plan tailored to a software company running a regulated bank; partnering with Engineering and Information Security to audit SDLC, data protection, IAM, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and AI in development; auditing third-party risk management and fintech partner oversight; using data analytics and AI to surface emerging risks and automate testing; evaluating risk and control effectiveness across IT/IS, BSA/AML, sanctions, fair lending, consumer protection, privacy, and ALM/interest rate risk; managing third-party audit staff; and partnering with the Head of Internal Audit to strengthen the function itself.
You'll need 5–10 years of audit, risk, or compliance experience in banking, fintech, consulting, or technology. Deep technology audit expertise is essential: IT risk, cybersecurity, modern software development (including AI), and hands-on cloud-native work (AWS IAM, CI/CD, Terraform, secrets management). You should be comfortable pulling and interpreting data from CloudTrail, Datadog, and Okta via API or query. Working knowledge of BSA/AML, sanctions (KYC, CDD, SAR, OFAC), and core banking regulation (OCC, FRB) is required. You build trust quickly with engineers, senior leadership, and regulators. Certifications (CISA, CISSP, CIA, CISM, CRISC) are a plus.
The role is based in Column's Presidio office in San Francisco with a 3–4 day/week in-person schedule. Compensation includes base salary ($150k–$200k), equity, and comprehensive benefits (health/dental/vision, family planning, rent subsidy, 401k, flexible PTO, paid parental leave, childcare reimbursement, catered meals, commuter benefits).
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