Audit Manager

Audit Manager

Edinburgh

• Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things?  
• Do you want to keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on, payment-building experience?
• Do you want to have the opportunity to find innovative and robust ways of embedding a strong culture that enables safe and sustainable growth?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are looking to hire high-energy, and value-adding talent to join Modulr, the fastest growing payments business in the UK and Europe, to support the development of the 3 lines of defence model.

About Us

At Modulr our mission is to move money efficiently to power business productivity. We are building a new digital payments service to make money flow more efficiently through businesses and the economy. This is a new type of payments account that is built for businesses that need faster, easier and more reliable ways to move money.

Our flexible platform and innovate approach allows our customers to utilise our payments account instead of a traditional bank account. Our accounts come with a sort code and account number, access to payment systems (eg Faster Payments and Visa) and everything our customers need from a payments account. They can instantly open as many accounts as they need, automate how they make and receive payments as well as the reconciliation processes these create. All in real time, 24/7 through their own systems utilising our API that integrates into any platform.

Our founding team has a wealth of experience in the payments industry and growing successful businesses. Modulr is backed by payments giants PayPal Ventures and FIS Ventures, as well as startup and scale up specialists Blenheim Chalcot, General Atlantic, Frog and Highland Europe which enables us to leverage their resources and expertise to drive our growth initiatives. These partnerships provide us with the necessary provisions to propel our business to new heights.

Modulr values

• Building the extraordinary and going that extra mile
• Owning the opportunity, be passionate and proud of the time you invest
• Move at pace, reach your goals faster with us supporting you each step of the way
• Achieve it together, working as a team and being Modulite

The Role

Key responsibilities

The Audit Manager is a vital role within Modulr and this role support the development of the 3 lines of defence model. This is an excellent opportunity to apply your skills and experience to a fast growing, dynamic organisation, working with colleagues across the business to shape our current and future approach. Critically this role will provide the opportunity for the successful candidate to grow responsibilities in line with business growth.

The successful Audit Manager will play a major role in leading and shaping across the business and access external expertise and capacity to deliver an independent review of the business’s controls.

Specific duties

Depending on the project, you will need to be comfortable doing the following:

• Build and deliver an audit plan that covers key risk areas for the business as well as the need to support external certification requirements
• Work with internal stakeholders and access external capacity and expertise to deliver against plans.
• Ensure the quality of output is delivered to consistently high standards and that actions are captured and tracked as part of the broader risk and control model with appropriate closure evidence.
• Develop a suite of Management Information that drives insight and business intelligence
• Maintain and develop working relationships with key stakeholders and agree and monitor management actions arising from audit work (up to Board level).
• Support departmental projects and initiatives in the development of the 3 lines of defence model
• Work collaboratively across the business and utilise different sources of information and assurance to develop an informed audit opinion
• Provide advice on controls and risk management and other consultancy services as required by the business and management.
• Contribute to coordination of governance reporting required.
• Proactively assist in the development of standards and procedures within the department.

The Team:

The role will report into the Group Head of Risk & Compliance with access to Board and Risk Committee members to maintain independence. Whilst it is a standalone position you will work across the business and access external expertise and capacity to deliver an independent review of the business’s controls.

About you:

The successful Audit Manager will have a track-record in delivering results in a fast-moving business and hence be comfortable with change and uncertainty. Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential to being successful in this role.

The Ideal Candidate

• A strong background in Audit and how it can be applied into different organisations – ideally with experience in the e-money and payments environment and/or a demonstrable knowledge of at least one of the following areas – IT Security/Safeguarding & Reconciliation/Financial Crime/Technology
• Comfortable working across different levels of the organisation including Board to discuss plans and results of audit findings
• Work with external and internal subject matter experts to deliver audit reviews and broader risk assessment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to enable the provision of a clear assessment of the effectiveness of Modulr’s control environment.

 What can Modulr offer you

You’ll be part of a cross disciplinary team(s), some might be in Edinburgh, London, or Amsterdam. We are friendly and sociable, challenging but rewarding. We want you to push yourself and for us to support you in your future as we scale up and grow. Our culture and values are putting you first and are about investing in your future.

• Share Options Incentive Scheme
• Company Bonus - the more successful we are together, the more company bonus we offer
• Enhanced Pension
• Flexible benefits - £1000 to spend on a variety of benefits for you to choose from which suit your lifestyle and needs
• Perkbox - enjoy freebies and discounts on many other products and services
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) + your birthday off - choose which days you take off to relax and/or spend time with loved ones
• Learning Opportunities – on joining Modulr you will embark on our 3-day onboarding programme to be equipped with the Modulr know-how and arm you with the tools you need to be successful from day 1! But, we don’t want your learning to stop there so we will continue to provide you with the tools and capabilities through our learning channels and platforms to allow you to grow and develop in Modulr.
• Modulr hands-on - join your colleagues for our company wide events throughout the year.
• Great workspace - Modulr thrives on innovation which is best done through in-person collaboration. This approach enables us to work together closely, exchange ideas, and create innovative solutions that drive our success. We have state of the art offices located in WeWork in Edinburgh, ScaleSpace in London, and WeWork in Amsterdam.

ModInclusion 

We believe that by seeing Modulr, and the world, from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all.​ We want you to know that the things that make you, you — like your identity, age, ability, and background — are things that we will always celebrate and support with open arms.  As such, we are keen to maximise the diversity of our workforce and actively encourage applications from anyone and everyone.

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