Member of Internal Audit
At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the only federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
As a Member of the Global Internal Audit Team, you'll get the opportunity to work on various internal audits related to Anchorage’s business and IT operations. You can apply your audit and financial services/ fintech expertise to have significant influence within and outside the team.
You are capable of independently executing audits with limited supervision from the project managers within the Internal Audit team, solving problems, making good judgment when evaluating issues and associated risks. You not only understand the “why” and the “bigger picture,” but meaningfully contribute to prioritizing the work within the team. Additionally, you will have exposure across business and IT operations in a fast-moving digital assets startup environment, you will be recognized as a reliable partner who can apply your banking audit expertise to have significant influence within and outside the team.
Technical Skills:
- Execute high quality internal audits in an efficient, autonomous manner.
- Articulate audit findings and risk impact to the business stakeholders.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Assist in all phases of planned internal audits (planning, fieldwork, and reporting), as well as issue management and validation.
- Independently prepare fieldwork material and data analytics on the reviews including detailed scoping, accurate, in-depth and well documented fieldwork, and clearly written issues to effectively convey risks identified.
- Assist in continuous monitoring activities with key stakeholders in the business.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Collaborate across Internal Audit and adjacent teams to determine audit scope, identify risks and control gaps, and develop mitigating management action plans.
Communication and Influence:
- Communicate and work effectively with diverse teams, ability to listen actively and incorporate others’ perspectives and have track record of successful teamwork.
- Communicate complex issues clearly and credibly across a wide range of audiences. Scans the environment for key information and messages to adapt the communication strategy and persuade several diverse stakeholders and audiences.
- Develop effective relationships with stakeholders across the business, and provide best practice guidance as a trusted control advisor to the business.
- Draft, discuss, and present audit findings to respective stakeholders.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
- Strong experience executing internal audits and/or knowledge of audit or compliance assurance/testing at a financial institution. Understanding of various regulatory requirements.
- Ability to articulate audit findings and risk impact to the business stakeholders.
- Ability to contribute to cross-functional goals, collaborating across Internal Audit, Compliance and stakeholder teams, to problem-solve and enhance teamwork.
- Ability to take ownership, work independently, and yet still be team-oriented.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skill.
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt traditional banking experience to the crypto industry; ensuring we correctly support Anchorage Digital Bank's products and services.
- Passion for promoting a positive working environment through excellent listening, speaking and demonstrated empathy for team members.
- Excellent communication skills, presentation abilities for leading walkthroughs and presenting issues, and the ability to clearly articulate audit findings and identify risks and root causes to stakeholders.
- Talent for resolving a wide range of issues in creative ways. Capable of suggesting different approaches and adapting to changing circumstances.
- Exhibits strong problem-solving skills, has meticulous attention to detail, and produces high quality work products with minimal errors, including creating detailed work papers to sufficiently support the results of the testing engagement with minimal revisions.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- CIA or related certifications.
- Experience working at or adjacent to a crypto-native company.
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
