Internal Control Specialist – Focus on Business and Accounting Processes, Risks and Controls
What You Will Be Doing
- Perform design and operating effectiveness testing for controls across:
- Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C) / Payments lifecycle, Record-to-Report (R2R), Financial Close and Accounting processes, Treasury and cash management, Reconciliations and financial data integrity, Revenue recognition and billing
- Evaluate evidence, validate process documentation, and ensure controls operate as
- intended.
- Identify deficiencies, document results, and track remediation plans.
- Support the execution of risk and control assessments for business and accounting
- processes.
- Map end-to-end processes, identify key risks, and evaluate the adequacy of controls.
- Assist in ensuring processes reflect regulatory expectations and best practices for S3/S4
- institutions.
- Contribute to identifying risks related to:
- Payment flows and settlements, Merchant operations, Financial reporting, Fraud prevention, Data accuracy and completeness, Third-party dependencies
- Develop and maintain process narratives, flowcharts, control matrices, and standard
- operating procedures.
- Ensure documentation remains aligned with evolving products, regulations, and
- organizational changes.
- Work with Accounting, Finance, Operations, and Product teams to ensure accuracy.
- Perspective)
- Support analysis of control failures related to financial or business processes.
- Conduct or assist with root cause analysis (RCA) to identify underlying issues.
- Track corrective action plans and validate remediation effectiveness.
- Work cross-functionally to embed control requirements into business processes.
- Partner with Accounting and FP&A to support financial reporting accuracy.
- Collaborate with Payments and Operations teams to ensure safe and scalable operational
- flows.
- Promote awareness and understanding of internal controls across the organization.
- Assist in preparing dashboards and management reports on control performance.
- Track key themes, systemic issues, and emerging risks in business and accounting
- processes.
- Identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and enhanced control design.
What You Need to Succeed
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering,
- Finance, or related areas.
- Experience in Internal Controls, Audit (internal or external), Operational Risk,
- Compliance, or Accounting within financial institutions, fintechs, or SOX-regulated
- companies.
- Experience with SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) controls, documentation standards,
- walkthroughs, testing methodologies, and deficiency remediation is a strong
- advantage.
- Familiarity with internal control and governance frameworks (COSO, COBIT, ISO, etc.)
- is a plus.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial cycles, and business process
- controls.
- Ability to evaluate reconciliations, journal entries, accounting estimates, and financial
- documentation.
- Experience analyzing process evidence and identifying control weaknesses.
- Strong documentation and analytical skills; ability to translate complex processes into
- clear narratives or flowcharts.
- Previous exposure to ERP systems, financial tools, BI dashboards, or reconciliation
- platforms is beneficial.
The future we will see
- As CloudWalk grows, Internal Controls will increasingly leveragedata analytics, automation, and enhance process reliability and financial accuracy.
- Automated reconciliations
- Data-driven anomaly detection
- Continuous monitoring of key financial metrics
- Improved governance over financial reporting and operational flows
- Control-by-design embedded into business processes and systems
- This role is ideal for professionals passionate about combining financial expertise, process improvement, and risk-conscious decision-making to support the future of a fast-scaling fintech
Top Skills
What We Do
We are democratizing the payments industry in Brazil, by empowering entrepreneurs through technological, inclusive, and life-changing solutions. Based in Brazil, CloudWalk is a high-end global payment network built on modern technology and proprietary blockchain, focused in bringing a revolution to the payment ecosystem for small and medium-sized businesses. As a unicorn, the company has provided its customers with more than R$ 1 billion in savings by charging fair fees on its transactions and is now present in more than 300.000 businesses across 5.000 brazilian cities. With investors such as the Valor Capital Group, HIVE Ventures and Coatue, the company has already raised US$ 365.5 million in investments and R$3.4 billion in FDICs for anticipation of receivables in its network of financial solutions. In 2022, it was the only brazilian fintech to be featured in the "The Retail Tech 100" ranking by CB Insights, on the "Protection Solutions for Payments and Frauds".









