Specialist, Risk & Controls Assurance
You’ll join Bitpanda’s Group Risk Management team as a hands-on Risk & Controls Specialist, responsible for delivering assurance across key business, operational, product, and finance processes. Reporting to the Group Head of Non-Financial Risk. You will drive control testing, continuous monitoring, issue remediation, and risk assessment activities, helping the business remain resilient, compliant, and audit-ready while strengthening risk and control practices.
- Execute risk-based control testing, including walkthroughs, sampling, evidence reviews, and effectiveness assessments across business, operational, product, and finance controls.
- Deliver continuous control monitoring, track control performance, and maintain high-quality control documentation and evidence standards.
- Manage findings and remediation activities, including issue tracking, root cause analysis, action plan validation, and retesting.
- Support risk and control assessments (RCSAs), control mapping, and the maintenance of accurate risk and control records within the GRC system.
- Partner with stakeholders across Business, Operations, Product, Treasury, Finance, Compliance, AFC, InfoSec, and Audit while maintaining 2LOD independence.
- 3–5 years of experience in risk, controls, assurance, or audit within financial services, fintech, payments, brokerage, or crypto environments. (required)
- Proven expertise in end-to-end controls testing, including planning, walkthroughs, sampling, evidence review, exception assessment, and reporting. (required)
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and results-driven, with a strong understanding of control design and operating effectiveness, audit trails, segregation of duties, and testing methodologies. (required)
- A confident communicator who can challenge stakeholders constructively, assess evidence critically, and produce audit-ready documentation. (required)
- Fluency in English, German is highly preferable (preferred)
- Flexibility to work where you thrive – Enjoy the freedom of our Hybrid working model, combining onsite collaboration and remote work, with an additional 25 days per year to work from a city or country of your choice.
- Reward for your impact – Receive a competitive total compensation package aligned with Bitpanda’s pay-for-impact policy, including participation in our stock option plan.
- Support for your mental wellbeing – Access confidential coaching, counselling, and mental health resources whenever you need them through OpenUP.
- Time to recharge – Take extra time off to rest, reset, and recharge, with 3 additional days off in 2026 to prioritise your wellbeing.
- Continuous learning and growth – Grow your skills and stay ahead in your career with unlimited access to Udemy’s library of online courses at your own pace.
- Exclusive perks and rewards – Enjoy discounts, rewards, and perks from partners worldwide across lifestyle, wellness, tech, and travel.
- Support during life milestones – Take advantage of our additional 8 weeks of gender-neutral new parent leave to welcome and bond with your new addition to the family.
- Fuel and focus on-site – Pandas in Vienna, Bucharest, Barcelona, and Berlin can enjoy free onsite dining, with freshly prepared lunches and snacks to keep you fueled and focused all day long.
- Recognition for your contributions – Celebrate milestones and achievements with recognition and rewards for your Tenure at Bitpanda.
- Show your Bitpanda pride – Access exclusive Bitpanda-branded merchandise and gear to represent.
- Connect and celebrate with your team – Join unforgettable company events, from our Winter Party in Vienna to gatherings worldwide, fostering fun, connection, and celebration.
Bitpanda is on a mission to reinvent the world of finance and bring investing closer to everyone, everywhere. Today’s financial ecosystem is complex, exclusive and expensive, and we’re here to change this as the #1 investment platform in Europe and beyond. Our platform is rooted in the belief that investing should be safe, easy and accessible to all. With Bitpanda, everyone has the freedom and flexibility to invest in what they believe in — commission-free stocks, cryptocurrencies or even precious metals — starting from as little as $1. Our story started in 2014 with our founders, Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek, and Christian Trummer. Since then, we’ve grown to a powerful and diverse team of over 550 people who represent more than 50 nationalities. Headquartered in Vienna, we’re proud to be Austria’s first unicorn and one of the fastest-growing fintechs in Europe. Our innovative technology serves over 5 million users and operates across multiple hub locations. Our products are built by fast-moving, talented, “roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen” kind of people. If you’re someone who thinks big, moves fast and wants to make an impact right from day one, then get ready to join our industry-changing team.
