Specialist, Risk & Controls Assurance

Your Mission

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.

What You'll Do

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.

Who You Are

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.

Proactive, detail-oriented, and results-driven, with a strong understanding of control design and operating effectiveness, audit trails, segregation of duties, and testing methodologies.

A confident communicator who can challenge stakeholders constructively, assess evidence critically, and produce audit-ready documentation.

Fluency in English, German is highly preferable