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Kraken, a leading crypto and fintech platform with over 10 million users globally, is seeking an Internal Audit Manager to lead risk-based operational audits across the business. You'll report to Internal Audit leadership and partner with the Audit & Risk function, which operates as an Integrated Assurance organization spanning Internal Audit, SOX Compliance, and Enterprise Risk Management across multiple regulated entities and jurisdictions.
In this role, you'll lead operational audits evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of controls across governance, regulatory, financial, and operational risk. A key immediate priority is post-acquisition integration audits as the business grows through acquisition. You'll assess integration and change risk across governance, regulatory licensing, finance, operations, data migration, and conduct/culture. You'll direct co-sourced specialist support for deep-technical areas while retaining Internal Audit ownership of judgment and conclusions.
Responsibilities include leading multiple audit engagements concurrently, managing planning, fieldwork, and reporting end-to-end. You'll document audit findings, draft workpapers and reports, track remediation of identified issues, and escalate delays to leadership. You'll lead engagement teams, including staffing and coordinating co-sourced specialists, and mentor junior auditors. You'll also partner with stakeholders across Compliance, Legal, Risk, Finance, and Engineering to communicate audit results and advise on control improvements while maintaining audit independence.
A key differentiator: you'll lead AI-enabled auditing, applying generative AI, agentic workflows, and data analytics across the audit lifecycle to expand coverage and efficiency while retaining human ownership of judgment.
You bring 8+ years of internal audit, risk management, or regulatory examination experience within financial services, fintech, or crypto. You have a strong generalist audit background with proven ability to plan and lead audits across business, financial, operational, and regulatory processes. Experience auditing complex, regulated environments and post-acquisition or M&A integration is a strong plus. You have multi-jurisdiction experience auditing or assessing controls across more than one regulatory regime, ideally with globally distributed teams. You're comfortable operating across multiple time zones and can get up to speed quickly on unfamiliar business models. You have leadership experience managing audit workstreams, engagement teams, and co-sourced specialists, and you communicate findings effectively to senior stakeholders including board or audit committee audiences. You utilize generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs.
