Bending Spoons
Head of internal audit
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Head of internal audit
Senior Internal Audit Manager – Compliance, Risk, and Controls
About Bending Spoons
At Bending Spoons, we’re building one of the all-time great companies—a culture of purpose-driven execution, customer obsession, and long-term net-new growth. Our approach is to acquire and improve digital businesses for their own success, creating value through deep transformations:
- Agile & startup-like in execution despite scale-built operations.
- AI-driven collaboration—where machine intelligence complements human judgment.
- Talent-density—small teams with maximal autonomy and shared responsibility.
Here, you learn rapidly, impact decisively, and scale your career in ways few workplaces offer.
The Role
In this demanding, high-impact role, you’ll establish and lead all aspects of our evolving internal audit function—starting from a greenfield state—while ensuring unflinching rigor in compliance, risk, and controls. Bending Spoons operates globally and expands rapidly, requiring proactive audit discipline to protect value while enabling innovation. This is the right opportunity only for those who are both deeply detail-oriented and strategically accountable for end-to-end execution.
Key Responsibilities
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SOX Compliance & Controls
- Own SOX end-to-end, coordinating across business processes, IT systems, and governance to meet (and exceed) quarterly compliance deadlines.
- Partner with product, finance, and engineering teams to embed controls without stifling agility.
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Internal Audit Leadership
- Develop and lead the annual audit plan, covering financial, operational, technology, and compliance risks.
- Lead controls testing, diagnose gaps/risk exposures, and drive remediation to resolution—ensuring confidence in processes, systems, and organizational integrity.
- Translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations for senior management and the audit committee; own closing loop discipline.
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Audit Function Architecture
- Shape Bending Spoons’ rising-audit maturity. Define methodologies, governance frameworks, and technology stacks to support scalability.
- Work with global teams to align compliance definitions and processes, reducing ambiguity and risk.
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Stakeholder Relationships
- Bridge internal leadership and external auditors—demonstrate independence while aligning inspection scope to business priorities.
- Influence through crisp accountability—potential access to portfolio leadership, audit committees, and board.
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- Urgency & Ownership
- Given our accelerated growth, implement quickly but thoughtfully—preventing today’s risks from sabre-rattling tomorrow’s revenue potential.
What We Look For
We target candidates not just with exceptional reasoning but with the mindset to integrate rigor into everything they do. To thrive here, you should embody:
✅ First Principles & Strategic Clarity
- Break problems into foundational pieces; dismiss quick narratives or shortcuts.
- Structure arguments logically and rigorously. Fearlessly ask, “Does this matter if the inputs are wrong?”
✅ High Demand for Results
- Intensity in execution matches your ambition. Effortlessly sniff out where something is off; feel a(self-enforced) deep accountability for outcomes.
- Equals that with persistent follow-through: everything must be done well and closed properly.
✅ Team Alchemy
- Push ideas but not your ego. Lend support without expectation—even when it’s “not your” task.
- Allocate resource freely. Cultivate reliability so others gain confidence in your ability to read the system’s implicit rules.
✅ English Fluency Acrossühren
- Read efficiently, write precisely, and speak confidently in all professional communication.
What We Offer
You’ll join a organization at the heartbeat of digital transformation—one where you determine your own growth trajectory and rewards. Perks aren’t stickers in a pains-and-gains wall: Multiple million-dollar impact opportunities every year
🔹 Cutting-Edge Collaborative Network
- Work in small, entrepreneurial teams with senior colleagues. Surround yourself with high-skill contributors who take ownership.
🔹 Exceptional Catalyst for Career Growth
- We invest heavily in leadership. Often, our Sangers (earlers at 20s) lead product24 ($+100M valuation) lines. By Year 2, you’ll likely own/co-own impact initiatives at the portfolio level.
🔹 Unnegotiable Flexibility & Wellbeing
- Flexible hours and location. As circumstances change, you choose.
- Unlimited resources for learning–training at industry events, certifications (e.g., ISACA, CIMA), technical tools, and peer mentorship programs.
- Top-tier living benefits: travel-to-office subsidies, private gym/personal wellness support, integrated health insurance with global specialty access, education stipends for your dependents, family leave.
- Earn while exploring: exclusive relocation package covering costs of up to 12m moves globally.
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🔹 Compensation & Long-Term Alignment
- Core annual salary typically lies between:
- USA: $204,281–$411,014 (adjusts for cost of living; higher in NYC/SF markets)
- London: £151,436–£250,512
- Europe/Global: €107,837–€240,330.
- Unlimited equity participation—compensation increases rapidly with impact depending on CEO valuation targets and your commitments.
- Progression supported by interview-driven ones-to-hunger payments.
🔹 Hybrid but Intentional
- At least six months based in-source in your initial location plan: this accelerates your cultural alignment, grounding, and trust-building with peers.
- Post-ramp stages allow office-based work, or approved remote work, depending on the team’s preference.
Commitment & Structure
✔ Full-time permanent role ✔ 40 hours/week (with flexibility) ✔ **Tentative process name: Internal Audit Leadership Position — “Audit & Impact Draft 1.3’_
Location Options
Primarily first six months in office at: ♢ Milan (Italy) ♢ London (UK) ♢ Madrid (Spain) ♢ Warsaw (Poland)
Post-ramp: home or one of our offices—your choice, with location eligibility and team preference aligned in discussions.
Selection Process
We aspire to objective efficiency and clarity—every candidate evaluated through the same 6-stage process in evaluation criteria:
- CV filtering – scratch tall CVs, quantifiable results.
- Case Study/Technique Test – unprobable challenges: purposeful stress.
- Behavioral Evaluation – decompression into three events critical speaking.
- Culture Assess – unsolicited feedback sessions “with your future”.
- Business-Relevant Live Project – comes alive during next 2–3 visits (pilot or risk consultation offering interests).
- Hiring Vote – board or committee suggestions followed strictly approved offer.
Note on Self-Screening: You don’t need a “megapacked history”. Candidates misconceived standards hold the process; percentage fail at uncertainty. If you view this role applying honestly with playfulness, start.
Apply today If you believe internal audit is the only way to protect performance during growth phases, **submit your application via our Career Portal here —but only once.
Accommodation: Openness to considerations of disability-type preference. Submit prior to interviews.
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