Specialist, Risk & Controls Assurance
Bitpanda helps users invest in stocks, cryptocurrencies, metals, and ETFs through a regulated European platform with fractional investing from €1.
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About Bitpanda
Bitpanda helps European users invest in cryptocurrencies, stocks, ETFs, precious metals, and commodities through a regulated fintech platform. Users can trade fractional shares, access early-stage crypto projects, earn staking rewards, and spend investments via debit card. The platform combines diverse asset classes with European regulatory compliance and multi-asset support.
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About the Role
You will join Bitpanda’s Group Risk Management team as a hands-on Risk & Controls Specialist, delivering assurance across key business, operational, product, and finance processes. The role focuses on control testing, continuous monitoring, issue remediation, risk assessments, and maintaining audit-ready risk and control practices while preserving 2LOD independence.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience in risk, controls, assurance, or audit within financial services, fintech, payments, brokerage, or crypto environments.
- Proven expertise in end-to-end controls testing, including planning, walkthroughs, sampling, evidence review, exception assessment, and reporting.
- Strong understanding of control design and operating effectiveness, audit trails, segregation of duties, and testing methodologies.
- Confident communication skills, including the ability to challenge stakeholders constructively, assess evidence critically, and produce audit-ready documentation.
- Fluency in English; German is highly preferable.
Responsibilities
- 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, control mapping, and maintenance of 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.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model combining onsite collaboration and remote work, with 25 additional days per year to work from a city or country of choice.
- Competitive total compensation package with participation in a stock option plan.
- Confidential coaching, counselling, and mental health resources through OpenUP.
- Three additional days off in 2026.
- Unlimited access to Udemy online courses.
- Worldwide partner discounts, rewards, and perks.
- Eight weeks of gender-neutral new parent leave.
- Free onsite dining in Vienna, Bucharest, Barcelona, and Berlin.
- Recognition and tenure rewards.
- Bitpanda-branded merchandise.
- Company events including the Winter Party in Vienna and global gatherings.
