Internal Control Specialist - Focus on Business and Accounting Processes, Risks and Controls
CloudWalk
Accounting & Finance
Remote
Posted on Dec 13, 2025
About CloudWalk:
We are not just another fintech unicorn. We are a pack of dreamers, makers, and tech enthusiasts building the future of payments. With millions of happy customers and a hunger for innovation, we're now expanding our neural network - literally and metaphorically.
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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
1. Execution of Business & Accounting Control Testing
2. Risk & Control Assessments (Business and Finance Focus)
3. Process & Control Documentation
4. Incident & Deficiency Follow-Up (Business Control
5. Collaboration with Finance, Operations & Product Teams
6. Governance, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
What You Need to Succeed
- 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.
- 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.
Technical Skills
The future we will see
- As CloudWalk grows, Internal Controls will increasingly leveragedata analytics, automation, and enhance process reliability and financial accuracy.
- 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 systems
- 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
You will contribute to initiatives such as:
Join us at CloudWalk, where we’re not just engineering solutions; we’re building a smarter, AI-driven future for payments—together.
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