Risk and Audit Lead

KAST is a stablecoin-powered financial platform for storing, earning, moving, and spending digital dollars globally.

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About KAST

KAST provides stablecoin-enabled financial services including global USD and EUR accounts, transfers, yield products, and Visa payment cards accepted worldwide. It operates through licensed financial partners and is explicitly described by its official site as a financial technology company rather than a bank.

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About the Role

You will build and run an independent enterprise-wide risk and audit function. You will own risk frameworks, assess controls and cybersecurity practices, drive audit activities, manage resilience exercises, partner with business functions while maintaining independence, and provide regular updates to leadership.

Requirements

  • Have 8 or more years of experience in risk, audit, cybersecurity, or controls with an enterprise-wide perspective
  • Understand enterprise risk management, information security, and technology risk
  • Have experience auditing business and technology environments and identifying control gaps
  • Have led or managed compliance certification projects, including ISO, SOC 2, or PCI DSS
  • Understand access management, data controls, secrets, API keys, and security testing
  • Have stakeholder-management experience with senior leaders, external auditors, and regulators

Responsibilities

  • Build and run an independent enterprise-wide risk and audit function
  • Own the enterprise risk framework and identify, assess, and track risks
  • Define and drive risk management activities, including RCSA and KRIs
  • Drive internal audits, management reporting, and closure of audit findings
  • Validate controls and compliance work independently
  • Review security and technology controls, systems, policies, and processes
  • Assess cybersecurity risks and gaps and ensure testing and remediation
  • Own business continuity, disaster recovery, and business impact assessment practices
  • Conduct annual business continuity and disaster recovery exercises
  • Develop and maintain risk and audit frameworks, policies, and processes
  • Provide regular risk and audit updates to leadership
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