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Senior Internal Controls Manager

Monzo Bank· Finance
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Hybrid (Dublin), Hybrid (London)€91k - €111.5kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Internal Controls Manager role at Monzo Bank Europe DAC, based in Dublin. Responsible for building and maintaining a robust risk and control environment across Finance, testing controls, supporting regulatory reporting assurance, tracking remediation, and improving risk management practices within a growing European banking footprint.

Responsibilities

  • Maintaining a robust and well-documented risk and control environment by improving documentation, evidence standards and control processes for the Finance team, and helping to ensure Finance-owned risks are aligned with MBEU’s risk appetite and the wider Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
  • Designing, maintaining and enhancing Finance risk and control matrices for key processes.
  • Performing regular control testing and review of evidence across Finance processes, including financial reporting, month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, regulatory reporting, tax, treasury and capital/liquidity-related processes.
  • Testing Finance controls and assessing design and operating effectiveness. Identifying control gaps, recommending enhancements, and embedding change by tracking remediation actions and progress.
  • Leading and supporting Finance risk and control self-assessments, including evidence gathering, challenge and documentation.
  • Preparing concise updates for Finance leadership on control testing results, open issues, remediation progress and emerging risks. Supporting risk assurance reporting to MBEU governance forums.
  • Working with second-line Risk & Compliance teams on oversight reviews, assurance planning and risk reporting.
  • Supporting Internal Audit and external audit requests relating to Finance controls.

Qualifications

  • Hold a recognised accounting qualification, or be close to qualification, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA Ireland or equivalent.
  • Detailed experience in audit, financial control, risk assurance, internal controls or regulatory reporting.

Skills

Required:Accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CPA or equivalent)Audit, financial control, or risk assuranceControl testingStakeholder management
Nice to have:Regulatory reporting

Benefits

  • €91,000 - €111,500 salary
  • Incentive Awards tied to performance
  • hybrid working model (Dublin office 2-3 days/week)
  • travel to Monzo’s head office in London from time to time
  • flexible working hours
  • 34 days annual leave (24 holiday days + 10 public holidays)
  • €1,200 learning budget per year
  • Private healthcare scheme
  • Pension scheme: minimum 4% contribution with Monzo matching up to 6%
  • Wellbeing benefits: financial education, health support, mental health resources (coaching and counselling)
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Monzo Bank

A bank as smart as your phone.

YC has written a good overview of our business on their blog: https://blog.ycombinator.com/monzo-makes-money-work-for-everyone/ Our mission is to make money work for everyone. We are the UK's leading digital bank for individuals and businesses, reinventing the traditional banking industry one customer at a time. We're relentlessly mission driven and always put our customers first - from what products we chose to launch next to our transparency and use of simple language. With a Net Promoter Score of 70+, it shows. From our founding in 2015, we now have over 7 million customers in the UK (13% of UK adults) and are building out our team in the US. We've seen incredible organic growth, acquiring 150,000 customers / month in 2022, with 80% of this coming from word of mouth. Our weekly active user rate is ~60% and ~40% of our active users use us as their Main Bank account, showing that we are a product that is embedded in our users' daily lives. We've grown to ~2,450 staff (~400 of which make up the product/tech team), and are backed by YC, Stripe, Tencent, Mike Moritz, and others. Internally, we encourage an open, collaborative, and inclusive working environment - we were voted the #1 startup where people in the UK want to work for the second year running in 2022. We contribute to open source software, and we continually engage with our wonderful community. We're hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us!

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