Swan is looking for an IT Internal Controller to join its Internal Control team. This team is responsible for ensuring the security and safety of our banking features and always has to consider the best way to combine multiple areas, such as business, legal, regulatory, and customer support.

As both a technology and financial services company, Swan relies on its Compliance, Risk & Internal Control team to make these pieces fit together!

As an IT Internal Controller, your primary responsibility is to ensure the security of all processes on IT side and contribute to risk control through regular controls on this topic. You will work in collaboration with IT Swan teams and also with the other teams (such as compliance, security, payment, sales, finance, etc.) to ensure the correct coverage and management of all risks. You will be the reference for the IT perimeter.

✨ Your mission

• The following responsibilities are expected of the role:

• Define and update second-level control plans.

• Conduct controls, analyze and report results, and make recommendations to improve risk management performance.

• Follow up on recommendations from third-level periodic controls and support their implementation.

• Conduct level-2 missions to evaluate the level-1 systems in place.

• Manage the internal control tool and update the risk map.

• Contribute to regulatory reporting and implement a dedicated IT section in the risk committee.

• Document procedures related to second-level control.

• Support operational staff in formalizing their procedures and defining their controls.

✨ Your team 

The Internal control team is within the Compliance, Risk & Internal Control department. You will work closely with Manon, our Lead Internal Control.

Learn more about theInternal Control team.

✨ You’re a great match if:

• You have a minimum of 2-4 years experience in IT internal control / IT audit. Ideally, you have experience in a Fintech environment, a payment institution, or bank.

• You have an interest in tech (ability to read code, write SQL queries…)

• Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders, including Swan teams and regulatory authorities both oral and written ;

• Strong ability to react, make decisions, and be proactive in a rapidly changing context ;

• Strong ability to adapt easily and quickly to the situation or the request ;

• Good working abilities in English 

Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door.

It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying! 🙌 

Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area.

About Swan

✨ Perks of being a Swanee:

• ESOP packages available 😊

• Flexible remote policy, ask us about it!

• The best health insurance: Alan 🦭

• Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib.

• We respect your lunch break. Mid-day free-time is sacred and our French office even provides a Swile card to cover your meal on work days. 🥪

• Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax.

• This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day.

✨ Our values:

Be human: Be straightforward, transparent, and sincerely care. It’s all about integrity and doing the right thing.

Ambition: We’re in this for the long game. We want to transform the entire market, and be the engine for Europe’s next tech champions!

Collaboration: We believe in the power of collective intelligence. We love to challenge others’ ideas and be challenged in return. May the best ideas win.

“Move fast, don’t break things”: If we must choose between security and going fast, we choose security. We are in banking, after all.

Make everything simple: Simplicity.

You can find out more about our culture.

• A 30-min video call with Amélie, our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions

• An interview with Manon, our Lead Internal Control

• An interview with Stéphie, our Chief Compliance Officer

• Meet the team