# Internal Audit Manager

**Company:** [Kraken](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kraken)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $83k – $167k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** internal audit, Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, operational auditing, financial auditing, audit planning, control testing, Risk Assessment, m&a integration, Data Analytics, Generative AI, iia standards, remediation tracking, cisa, cia
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Leads risk-based operational and integration audits across a globally regulated financial-services business, managing engagements, specialists, remediation, and stakeholder reporting. Requires 8+ years of internal audit, risk management, or regulatory examination experience, with strong generalist and multi-jurisdiction expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Operational & Integration Audit Leadership
- Lead risk-based operational audits across governance, regulatory, financial, and operational processes.
- Lead post-acquisition integration audits, including readiness, entity onboarding, and control design and operating effectiveness.
- Assess integration and change risks across governance, regulatory licensing, change-of-control conditions, finance and operations, data migration, key-person retention, conduct, and culture.
- Perform risk assessments and prioritize audit coverage across the audit plan and acquisition pipeline.
- Direct co-sourced subject-matter experts while retaining Internal Audit ownership of judgments and conclusions.
- Apply generative AI, agentic workflows, and data analytics across the audit lifecycle with human oversight.

### Engagement & Issue Management
- Lead multiple audit engagements concurrently, managing planning, fieldwork, and reporting end to end.
- Document findings, control gaps, root causes, workpapers, and reports.
- Track and validate remediation of identified issues and escalate delays or gaps.
- Improve audit methodologies and frameworks and ensure conformance with the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and quality-assurance requirements.
- Lead engagement teams, coordinate co-sourced specialists, and mentor junior auditors.

### Stakeholder Engagement & Reporting
- Partner with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Finance, Engineering, and other stakeholders to communicate audit results and advise on control improvements while maintaining independence.
- Monitor the audit plan, acquisition pipeline, and evolving regulatory expectations across relevant jurisdictions.
- Coordinate coverage with Internal Audit managers and co-sourced specialists.

## Requirements

- **8+ years** of experience in internal audit, risk management, or regulatory examination within financial services, fintech, or crypto.
- Strong generalist audit background, with experience planning and leading audits across business, financial, operational, and regulatory processes.
- Experience auditing complex, regulated environments.
- Multi-jurisdiction experience, ideally with globally distributed teams.
- Ability to learn unfamiliar business models quickly and direct specialist support where needed.
- Experience communicating findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including boards or audit committees.
- Leadership experience managing audit workstreams, engagement teams, and co-sourced specialists.
- Ability to work across multiple time zones with globally distributed teams.
- Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight and a focus on workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

## Nice-to-Haves

- CIA, CISA, CAMS, CFE, or equivalent certification.
- M&A or integration audit, or transaction diligence, experience.
- Familiarity with crypto, fintech, or digital-asset business models.

## Compensation

- Annual salary: **$83,400–$166,800**.

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