Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

Risk and Internal Controls Analyst

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇮🇪 Ireland

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Job Level

JuniorMid-Level

Tech Stack

AWSCloud

About the role

  • Lead IT initiatives to support the SOX roadmap and advance program maturity
  • Assist with scoping of IT systems and create and deliver training to owners in preparation for SOX audit
  • Lead the development of SOC 1 reports in coordination with cross functional stakeholders
  • Coordinate SOC 1 audits, respond to external auditor requests, coordinate management responses, and prepare reporting
  • Lead and perform security control gap assessments over IT control environment and design and track remediation efforts to completion
  • Assess SOX implications of new products, update relevant controls, and communicate requirements to product organization and other stakeholders
  • Perform impact analysis for control deficiencies identified over SOX environment and partner with owning teams to design remediation plans
  • Provide ongoing reporting to stakeholders and leadership and communicate progress and escalations
  • Build close relationships with Security, IT, Infrastructure, Engineering, Data, and Finance to advise on SOX requirements and ensure excellence in control ownership
  • Create and improve procedural documentation, including process documentation, data flow diagrams, and uplifting control narrative templates
  • Work closely with internal and external auditors to educate them about a complex technology control environment
  • Oversee quality of audit initiatives, identify and analyze process gaps, and provide guidance and expertise to team members
  • Develop creative solutions to prove risk mitigation and solve for complex audit problems faced by the crypto industry
  • Identify opportunities to address systemic program challenges, recommend solutions and drive issue resolution
  • Assist in implementation to automate the audit evidence collection process via AuditBoard.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 2+ years of security/IT compliance or equivalent experience
  • Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting, SOX 404 frameworks, and testing to support compliance
  • Prior experience at a Big 4 accounting firm
  • Experience leading compliance initiatives from start to finish
  • Proven understanding and audit experience of cloud technologies, AWS preferred
  • Ability to effectively and autonomously accomplish outcomes across cross-functional teams in ambiguous situations with minimal supervision
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to multitask, direct cross functional work, and hold others accountable to committed deadlines in a fast paced environment
  • Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align on shared outcomes
  • BA or BS in a technical field or equivalent experience (nice to have)
  • Security certifications e.g. CISA, CISSP, CISM or other relevant certifications (nice to have)
  • Experience auditing in crypto space (nice to have)