Group Control Assurance Lead (Fintech)

Location: London, United Kingdom; candidates must have the right to work in the United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global provides a spend management platform combining company cards, reimbursable expenses, accounts payable, automation, and finance controls for scaling businesses.

What you will do

• Build and own the Board-approved control assurance and monitoring plan across two licensed electronic money entities in the UK and Lithuania.
• Design and perform risk-based testing of control design and operating effectiveness across compliance, conduct, reporting, financial crime, safeguarding, capital adequacy, resilience, ICT, outsourcing, and governance.
• Test detection controls end to end, including sanctions and politically exposed person screening and transaction monitoring coverage and calibration.
• Lead remediation programmes by coordinating stakeholders, setting owners and deadlines, escalating delays, and securing governance approvals.
• Validate remediated controls independently, prepare written findings and severity ratings, and report results and thematic issues to the Risk Committee and both Boards.
• Develop automated, repeatable, population-level tests that generate their own evidence and support supervisory engagement and internal audit.

Requirements

• Practical day-to-day fluency with AI, connected-system data, large document and dataset analysis, chained workflows, and small automations.
• Experience in compliance monitoring, control testing, or assurance within a regulated framework in a second-line or third-line role.
• Strong knowledge of Financial Conduct Authority expectations and equivalent EEA compliance-monitoring requirements.
• Depth in at least two relevant risk domains and the ability to distinguish control design effectiveness from execution effectiveness.
• Experience driving remediation to closure, challenging senior control owners, and working with population-level data rather than only manual samples.
• Fluent written and spoken English to Board standard and the right to work in the United Kingdom.

Nice to have

• Big Four or specialist consultancy assurance, audit, or regulatory advisory experience.
• Payments, e-money, banking, multi-entity, or multi-jurisdiction experience.
• Experience with operational resilience, ICT risk, safeguarding, capital adequacy, regulatory reporting, screening, or transaction monitoring testing.
• SQL, Python, data testing frameworks, or qualifications such as IIA, ICA, or ACAMS.

Culture & Benefits

• Flat hierarchies, ownership, constructive feedback, and an emphasis on diversity and inclusion.
• 30 days of paid time off and 12 work-from-anywhere days.
• Exchange opportunities at hirify.global offices in Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, and Sofia.
• Health and fitness membership and two company off-sites per year.
• Monthly commuting allowance of £150 and access to the hirify.global product.