Senior IT Internal Auditor
Lead Bank
IT
San Francisco, CA, USA · New York, USA · Kansas City, MO, USA · Sunnyvale, CA, USA · New York, NY, USA · Remote
USD 148k-204k / year
Posted on Nov 22, 2025
Lead is a fintech building banking infrastructure for embedded financial products and services. We operate an FDIC-insured bank headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Additionally, we have offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, where our technical, product, design, and legal teams operate.
We are built for a constantly evolving financial landscape, where new ventures and technological advancements emerge daily. Guided by a team of entrepreneurs and technologists with decades of experience navigating intricate banking and payments regulations, Lead blends regulatory and technological expertise to help our fintech partners scale their operations with compliance and creativity.
Simply put, Lead offers the essential attributes that every fintech seeks in a partner bank. First, unparalleled technical expertise from a distinguished team of developers with an extensive understanding of the banking and payments systems. Second, oversight expertise, automated compliance systems, and bespoke program management to navigate the ever-shifting regulatory landscape. Finally, a commitment to transparency and operational rigor to ensure everyone’s money does what it’s supposed to do.
Role Description:
Lead Bank is seeking an experienced Senior Internal Auditor with deep expertise in SOX or FDICIA compliance and IT audit. As a key member of Internal Audit, you will be an internal control champion who works across Lead Bank's landscape to assess and enhance IT and business process controls. Using your experience partnering with auditors, management team members, and process and control owners, you will provide guidance on control design and implementation, support remediation efforts, and coordinate and execute testing activities. This role will report into the Internal Audit Manager.
In this role you will:
- Perform internal audit risk assessments and contribute to the annual audit plan
- Assist with performing and documenting scoping of the FDICIA audit as well as other operational audits
- Execute and document internal audits, including planning and coordinating walkthroughs, and testing the design and operating effectiveness of business process and IT controls, application controls, and key system generated reports
- Provide subject matter expertise around financial and IT processes, risks, and controls.
- Review system implementations to assess risks and potential impact to internal controls and for potential scoping into the FDICIA program
- Provide clear and concise observations to Internal Audit management and verify observations with operational management. Evaluate and track remediation of identified control deficiencies in a timely manner
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field such as information systems, computer science, business, finance or accounting required
- Minimum experience of 5 years in internal or external IT auditing, with demonstrated SOX/FDICIA experience
- Strong hands-on experience with IT General Controls (ITGC) including access controls, change management, and IT operations
- A detailed understanding of the general computer control areas and the IT governance framework (COBIT), Sarbanes Oxley/FDICIA, and the COSO framework
- Proven experience with evaluating security and controls for homegrown and cloud-based and SaaS technologies
- Solid communication skills, including a proven ability to articulate complex risks, their impact, and required action plans to stakeholders outside of Internal Audit
- Demonstrated ability to effectively leverage AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot) to enhance audit efficiency while maintaining professional skepticism, validating outputs, and exercising sound judgment on when AI assistance is and is not appropriate
- One or more of the following professional certifications required: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), or Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Proficient using spreadsheet, slide, and flowcharting tools
- Preferred: Big 4 accounting firm experience
- Preferred: Financial technology, banking, or financial services experience
- Preferred: Experience with audit and compliance management tools (e.g. Workiva, AuditBoard)
What we offer:
- At Lead, we design our benefits to support company culture and principles, to foster an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to create the conditions for our team to give their best in both work and life
- Competitive compensation based on experience, geographic location, and role
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays
- A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth
*Lead Bank is proud to have an inclusive culture committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.
*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
*Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
*Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Zone 1: $176,000 - $204,000 (SF/Bay Area, NYC, Seattle)
Zone 2: $161,000 - $183,000 (Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Denver, Boston, Washington DC, San Diego, Philadelphia, Portland, Sacramento, Miami)
Zone 3: $148,000 - $173,000 (Other US Metros)
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