Cleo
Internal Controls Manager
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About The Company
About Cleo
At Cleo, we're not just building another fintech app. We're embarking on a mission to fundamentally change humanity's relationship with money. Imagine a world where everyone, regardless of background or income, has access to a hyper-intelligent financial advisor in their pocket. That's the future we're creating.
Cleo is a rare success story: a profitable, fast-growing unicorn with over $300 million in ARR and growing over 2x year-over-year. This isn't just a job; it's a chance to join a team of brilliant, driven individuals who are passionate about making a real difference. We have an exceptionally high bar for talent, seeking individuals who are not only at the top of their field but also embody our culture of collaboration and positive impact.
If you’re driven by complex challenges that push your expertise, the chance to shape something truly transformative, and the potential to share in Cleo’s success as we scale, while growing alongside a company that’s scaling fast, this might be your perfect fit.
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About The Role
Cleo is growing, in terms of headcount, products, workflows and geographies. We’re looking to hire an internal controls expert who can expand on our already solid foundations, and scale financial processes with us as we increase in scope and complexity.
Reporting to the Reporting & Tax Lead and a key part of Core Finance, this role is an exciting opportunity to be our founding Internal Controls team member and have a material impact on the business and our trajectory.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist with designing, building and owning the internal controls framework across financial reporting, compliance and operational processes
- Manage our external audit relationship from a controls perspective.
- Create scalable playbooks for new product and entity launches through continuous review of internal controls.
- Design and run a programme of control testing and self-assessment across all major business processes.
- Lead a long-term project to work towards a controls environment appropriate for public company obligations (SOX 404 or equivalent).
- Champion a controls culture across Finance and the broader business; this includes designing and leading training sessions to boost awareness and accountability
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What We're Looking For
- Big 4 experience - ideally in the controls or internal audit team, but if you’ve been working in external audit, we’d still love to hear from you.
- ACA, CIA or equivalent qualification preferred
- Experience (either in-house or from a client perspective) in Fintech or regulated Financial Services companies is highly beneficial.
- Hands-on experience designing and/or testing a controls framework from scratch.
- Familiarity with SOX 404, COSO or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience designing and/or testing a controls framework from scratch.
- Exposure to multi-entity or multi-jurisdiction environments
- Collaborative mindset - striking the balance between enablement and auditing
- Strong communicator - able to translate complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders
What do you get for all your hard work?
- A competitive compensation package (base + equity) with bi-annual reviews, aligned to our quarterly OKR planning cycles. The salary range for this position is £60,000 - £80,000.
- Work at one of the fastest-growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms, Balderton & EQT Ventures
- A clear progression plan. We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things, leading others, challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.
- Flexibility. We can’t fight for the world’s financial health if we’re not healthy ourselves. We work with everyone to make sure they have the balance they need to do their best work
- Hybrid-first: This is a London-based, hybrid role where we blend the best of both remote and in-office work. We expect our team members to be in our London office 1-2 times a week. On Wednesdays, we buy you lunch but you can come to the office on whichever days work best for you!
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Other Benefits
- Generous pay increases for high-performing team members
- Equity top-ups for team members getting promoted
- 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo, up to 30 days)
- 6% employer-matched pension in the UK
- Private Medical Insurance via Vitality, dental cover, and life assurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- 1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo
- Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
- We'll pay for your OpenAI and Claude subscription
- Online mental health support via Spill
- Workplace Nursery Scheme
- And many more!
Welcoming Everyone
We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
By submitting this application, I confirm that all the information given by me in this application for employment and any additional documents attached hereto are true to the best of my knowledge and that I have not wilfully suppressed any material fact. I confirm I have disclosed if applicable any previous employment with Cleo AI. I accept that if any of the information given by me in this application is in any way false or incorrect, my application may be rejected, any offer of employment may be withdrawn or my employment with Cleo AI may be terminated summarily or I may be dismissed. By submitting this application, I agree that my personal data will be processed in accordance with Cleo AI's Candidate Privacy Notice
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