The Role
The IT Internal Audit Manager will lead IT audits, create audit methodologies, manage audit lifecycles, and conduct annual IT risk assessments while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure technology compliance and efficiency.
Summary Generated by Built In
Our mission? Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond, by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. We combine business-class tools (seamless invoicing, spend management, and pre-accounting) with unwaveringly attentive 24/7 support, designed to help businesses breeze through all things finance.
Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 600,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!
Our values:
Customer focus | Prioritize customers in everything you do
Ownership | Own your part, get things done
Teamwork | Make (team)work easy
Mastery | Continuously raise the bar
Integrity | Always do what’s right, and respect people
Our beliefs: At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 55% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.
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Join us as an IT Internal Audit Manager (Information Technology) to help create Qonto's IT audit function from the ground up as one of the first members of our newly established Internal Audit team. You'll build robust IT audit methodology while ensuring oversight of our technology systems serving 600,000 customers across Europe. You will play a key role in establishing IT audit standards and processes as we scale towards serving one million SMEs by 2028.
As an experienced IT internal auditor, you'll have the unique opportunity to design and implement our IT audit approach from scratch while maintaining the agility needed in our fast-growing fintech environment.
👩💻🧑💻 As an IT Internal Audit Manager (Information Technology) at Qonto, you will:
• Lead comprehensive IT audits: With the assistance of external consultants, conduct technical audits covering ICT & cybersecurity risk, notably: networks, firewalls, cloud infrastructure, disaster recovery, third-party management, identity and access management, change management, data governance, protection and privacy, IT governance and strategy, incident management, software development and acquisition, users awareness and training, compliance with relevance regulations as DORA, ISO27001 and PCI DSS certifications
• Create IT audit methodology: Design and build Qonto's IT audit function from scratch, developing standards tailored to our fintech environment
• Manage full audit lifecycle: Handle audit planning, field testing, control evaluation, audit report writing, and follow-up verification of remediation actions
• Conduct annual IT risk assessment: Lead the annual risk assessment for IT activities and maintain the IT audit universe
🤔 What you can expect
• Pioneering role: Create the IT audit function from scratch with full autonomy to design methodology while staying agile and adapting to Qonto's fast-paced environment
• Technical depth: Work across diverse IT domains from cloud infrastructure to cybersecurity, gaining comprehensive insight into a modern fintech's technology stack
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Tech, Product, Security, and Risk teams to understand and audit complex IT processes and controls
• Structured yet flexible approach: Build established audit frameworks while having the freedom to innovate and adapt them to Qonto's specific technology needs
🤝 About your future Manager
Your manager will be Catherine Soria our Head of Internal Audit:
Their background?
Catherine joined Qonto in March 2024, bringing over 12 years of experience in the banking sector, with a strong focus on retail and corporate banking and payment services. Throughout her career, she has held diverse roles in sales, internal audit, and risk management. At Qonto, she was recruited to establish the company's internal audit function, laying a solid foundation to support Qonto's safe and sustainable growth.
What can they bring to the team?
Passionate about her work, Catherine brings a positive perspective to the role of internal audit at Qonto, focusing on continuous improvement and safeguarding the group's interests. As an experienced manager, she will support you with care and guidance to succeed in your role and advance within Qonto.
🏅About You
• IT Internal Audit expertise: Demonstrated experience as an IT internal auditor in banking, fintech, or payment institutions, with proven ability to lead complex audit mission on IT environments (CIA or CISA certification preferred)
• Technical knowledge: Strong understanding of IT risks, systems, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and IT governance frameworks
• Methodology builder: Experience creating audit procedures and frameworks from scratch, with ability to balance thoroughness with agility in a fast-growing environment
• Independent leadership: Capable of working autonomously, leading complex IT audit missions, and building relationships with technical teams
• Clear technical communication: Excellent at translating technical audit findings into clear recommendations for both technical teams and senior management
• Languages: Fluency in English required; proficiency in French is a bonus.
At Qonto we understand that true diversity isn't just about ticking boxes on a hiring checklist. Apply regardless of the boxes you tick! Who knows? You may have the missing piece of the puzzle we've been searching for all along.
🎁 Perks
A tailor-made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.
- Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;
- Competitive salary package;
- Meal vouchers;
- Public transportation reimbursement (part or global);
- A great health insurance (depending on the country);
- Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities;
- A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners;
- Monthly team events.
💬 Our hiring process:
- Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
- A remote or live exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like
Find more information about our interview process on our careers website.
On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞
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Top Skills
Cloud Infrastructure
Disaster Recovery
Firewalls
Ict & Cybersecurity Risk
Identity And Access Management
Iso27001
It Audit Methodology
It Governance
Networks
Pci Dss
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The Company
What We Do
Qonto is the leading European business finance solution. It simplifies everything from everyday banking and financing, to bookkeeping and spend management. Qonto energizes SMEs and freelancers so that they can achieve more. A few figures about Qonto: - Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi launched Qonto in July 2017 - Qonto’s international team is growing fast and we are actively hiring! - Hundreds of thousands of customers in Europe are already using Qonto - €622m raised with VCs and business angels including Valar, Alven, the European Investment Bank, Tencent, DST Global, Tiger Global, TCV, Alkeon, Eurazeo, KKR, Insight Partners, Exor Seeds and Gaingels. Legal Notice: 🇪🇺 https://legal.qonto.com/en 🇫🇷 https://legal.qonto.com/fr 🇩🇪 https://qonto.com/de/imprint 🇪🇸 https://legal.qonto.com/es 🇮🇹 https://legal.qonto.com/it
