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Internal Control Specialist – Focus on Business and Accounting Processes, Risks and Controls
CloudWalk · Remote
About The Role
- At CloudWalk, Compliance is a strategic partner — not a blocker. We blend regulatory
- expertise, business knowledge, technology, and risk intelligence to enable disruptive innovation
- with integrity, safety, and resilience. We work across Product, Finance, Operations, Legal,
- Engineering, and other teams to ensure CloudWalk grows sustainably and responsibly.
- The Internal Control Areais responsible for strengthening CloudWalk’s governance,
- maintaining consistent and reliable processes, and ensuring the company operates in alignment
- with regulatory expectations and best practices.
- We support the business in identifying risks, designing effective controls, testing process
- reliability, and promoting a control-aware culture that scales with our rapid growth.
- This role focuses onbusiness and accounting processes, ensuring financial accuracy,
- operational consistency, and strong end-to-end process governance.
What You Will Be Doing
- As an Internal Control Specialist focused on Business and Accounting Processes , you will
- play a hands-on role in assessing, testing, documenting, and enhancing CloudWalk’s internal
- control environment across Finance, Operations, Payments, Billing, Treasury, and other
- business-critical areas.
- Execution of Business & Accounting Control Testing
- 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.
- Risk & Control Assessments (Business and Finance Focus)
- 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
- Process & Control Documentation
- 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.
- Incident & Deficiency Follow-Up (Business Control 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.
- Collaboration with Finance, Operations & Product Teams
- 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.
- Governance, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- 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
Education and Experience
- 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.
Technical Skills
- 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.
Soft Skills
- Analytical, detail-oriented, and curious mindset.
- Strong communication skills with finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Proactive, organized, and capable of managing multiple priorities.
- Hands-on mindset with high ownership.
- The future we see
- As CloudWalk grows, Internal Controls will increasingly leverage data analytics, automation, and AI to enhance process reliability and financial accuracy.
You will contribute to initiatives such as
- 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 system.
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
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