Principal, Risk & Controls (Fintech)

Location: Mountain View, California or San Diego, California, United States

Base pay: $185,000–$250,500 in Mountain View or $163,500–$221,500 in San Diego, annually, plus potential bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology platform providing products including TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp.

What you will do

• Lead Finance risk and controls for new money movement products from design through launch readiness and stabilization.
• Design control architectures covering settlement, reconciliation, clearing, suspense accounts, customer funds safeguarding, cutoffs, timing, and failure handling.
• Own the SOX control environment, including documentation, evidence standards, walkthroughs, testing, deficiency evaluation, and remediation.
• Partner with Technical Accounting, Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, Internal Audit, SOX PMO, and External Audit.
• Assess finance risks related to sponsor banks, processors, custodians, and program managers, including control reliance, audit rights, and concentration risk.
• Build exposure metrics and automated, evidence-generating controls, applying AI where it provides meaningful leverage.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in risk and controls, internal audit, technical accounting, or Finance operations, including meaningful experience in payments, banking, or fintech.
• Experience designing controls for new products or payment flows, rather than only testing existing controls.
• Deep understanding of settlement timing, clearing and suspense behavior, reconciliation architecture, chargebacks, returns, and failure modes.
• Strong SOX 404 expertise, including deficiency evaluation and direct engagement with Internal and External Audit.
• Ability to translate regulatory obligations into control requirements and influence Product and Engineering without formal authority.
• Active use of AI in professional practice is required.

Nice to have

• Experience establishing control environments for new product lines, legal entities, or payment rails.
• Experience with digital asset and stablecoin flows, bank partnerships, sponsor bank oversight, or program management models.
• Public company close and external reporting experience.
• CPA, CIA, or CISA certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with a pay-for-performance approach.
• Potential cash bonus, equity rewards, and employee benefits according to applicable plans.
• Regular pay-equity comparisons across ethnicity and gender categories.