Audit, Technology

For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid Square Meta Blend and Affirm and have seen this problem firsthand builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank its core and many other vendors. All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user fintech BaaS middleware provider bank core and the Federal Reserve.

At Column we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors middleware providers and abstraction layers. This means a safer more transparent and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us!

Column runs on infrastructure we built ourselves with no legacy banking core underneath it which means when something needs auditing theres no vendor to point to and no black box to wave at examiners. Were looking for a high-agency audit professional to own that problem with a focus on Information Technology and Security alongside core banking BSA/AML and fintech-specific risk.

Youll run the full audit lifecycle risk assessment planning fieldwork reporting follow-up working directly with Information Security Engineering Payments BSA/AML Compliance Lending Growth and TPRM. This isnt a background function checking boxes after the fact: youll be embedded with these teams as they build and what you find will shape how Column governs itself while scaling a nationally chartered bank.

This role is based in our Presidio office in San Francisco and follows a 3-4-day/week in-person schedule. You will report to Columns Head of Internal Audit.

• Design lead and execute end-to-end audits scoping fieldwork reporting issue follow-up across core banking technology compliance fintech partnerships lending payments cards and API infrastructure. Report findings straight to senior leadership.

• Own a risk-based audit plan built for what Column actually is: a software company running a regulated bank. Evolve it as we grow.

• Partner directly with Engineering and Information Security to audit SDLC data protection IAM cybersecurity cloud infrastructure AWS and how AI is used in our development process.

• Audit third-party risk management and fintech partner oversight against regulatory expectations.

• Use data analytics and AI to surface emerging risks automate testing and make audit faster and more efficient.

• Evaluate risk and control effectiveness across IT/IS BSA/AML sanctions fair lending consumer protection privacy and ALM/interest rate risk grounded in NIST and regulatory expectations from the OCC FRB and FDIC.

• Manage third-party audit staff to keep delivery sharp and on time.

• Partner with the Head of Internal Audit level up the function itself: Audit Committee materials QA risk assessment metrics.

• 5-10 years of audit risk or compliance experience in banking fintech consulting or technology

• Real technology audit depth IT risk cybersecurity modern software development including how AI is changing the dev process

• Hands-on audit ability in a cloud-native environment: AWS IAM CI/CD infrastructure as code (Terraform) secrets management

• Comfortable pulling and interpreting data straight from CloudTrail Datadog and Okta via API or query not just a dashboard

• Working knowledge of BSA/AML sanctions (KYC CDD SAR OFAC) and core banking regulation (OCC FRB)

• You build trust fast with engineers senior leadership and regulators

• CISA CISSP CIA CISM or CRISC certifications a plus

• Comprehensive health dental and vision plans including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents!

• Comprehensive family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot including reimbursement of up to $20000 in qualified expenses

• Up to $2000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of Columns office

• FSA and HSA account options to enable use of pre-tax money for medical and dependent care expenses

• 401k plan including self-directed brokerage options

• Flexible time-off policy - take the time off that you want and need to relax and recharge

• 100% paid parental leave including 16 weeks for birth mothers 12 weeks for primary caregivers and 8 weeks for secondary caregivers

• Up to $4500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare

• Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees

• Commuter benefits including paid transportation to-and-from the office

• Regular team building events including annual offsite

Compensation packages at Column include base salary equity and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidates experience expertise geographic location and internal pay equity relative to peers.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $150000 - $200000 equity.

Column is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We value bringing together a team with different perspectives educational backgrounds and life experiences and believe a diversity of ideas is what allows us to develop the best solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

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