Senior Risk & Controls Lead

Location: Hybrid, three days per week from the office in Warsaw, Poznań, or Krakow, Poland; Bucharest, Romania; or Lisbon, Portugal.

Company

hirify.global operates online marketplaces that connect people to buy and sell cars, find homes and jobs, and trade secondhand goods across multiple markets.

What you will do

• Own the identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring of technology risks across product platforms and maintain the Technology Risk Register.
• Develop and coordinate IT risk treatment strategies while ensuring risk owners remain accountable.
• Partner with Internal Audit on audit planning and monitor the closure of audit issues.
• Coordinate year-end external auditor ITGC testing and drive findings through to resolution.
• Advise the CTO and security teams on IT risk and security matters.
• Lead implementation of the group’s Risk & Compliance system and support internal ITGC testing capability.

Requirements

• Expertise in technology risk, IT audit, or IT governance, preferably in a multi-market environment.
• Experience in an internal Risk & Controls function, IT-focused internal audit team, or Big Four IT/Technology Risk Assurance practice.
• Working knowledge of ISO 27001 and NIST control and security frameworks.
• Practical experience with internal and external audits, risk registers, controls testing, and issue tracking.
• Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder-influence skills, including influencing owners without formal authority.
• Technology-savvy, collaborative, pragmatic, and comfortable constructively challenging decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience with GRC or risk-register tooling, including platform migration or implementation.
• CISA or CRISC certification.

Culture & Benefits

• International environment spanning multiple markets and nationalities.
• Informal, collaborative workplace focused on outcomes over hierarchy.
• Training and e-courses for ongoing professional development.
• Annual performance-based bonus, medical insurance, and flexible benefits.
• Hybrid work with three office days per week.