Overview

As Risk & Control Lead in Finance, you strengthen internal controls and guide audit activities across Finance and adjacent functions. You will design and refine control frameworks, partner with process owners to close gaps, and coordinate external audits. You’ll monitor financial and operational risks, support regulatory alignment (including GDPR considerations), and drive a culture of controls and continuous improvement. This role sits at the heart of a fast-growing, European-scale fintech-style logistics platform.

Compensaciones / Ventajas

- sennCare wellbeing program
- partnership with nilo for wellbeing
- Culture Amp satisfaction surveys
- competitive compensation with performance bonuses or equity
- international travel and vibrant offices across Europe

Responsabilidades

- Design, document, and continuously improve the internal control framework across Finance and adjacent functions
- Plan and lead end-to-end internal audit reviews, including scoping, fieldwork, remediation tracking, and reporting
- Serve as primary liaison for external auditors, coordinating planning, evidence requests, walkthroughs, and issue resolution
- Identify, assess, and monitor financial and operational risks, maintain a risk register, and escalate material exposures
- Collaborate with process owners to remediate control gaps and embed controls into day-to-day operations
- Contribute to SOX-equivalent/ICFR-style control documentation, testing plans, and evidence libraries
- Work with Legal, Compliance, and Data Protection to reflect regulatory requirements (GDPR where applicable)




- Deliver training to promote a strong controls culture across Finance and operations
- Prepare clear reporting on control effectiveness, audit status, and risk trends for leadership and Audit Committee
- Evaluate and roll out tools and automation to improve control and audit efficiency and quality

Requisitos principales

- Bachelor's or master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field; professional qualification strongly preferred (ACA, ACCA, CIA, CPA)
- 2-5 years of relevant audit and/or risk experience, Big 4 exposure a strong plus
- Solid understanding of internal control frameworks (e.g., COSO) and experience designing, testing, remediating controls
- Experience managing external audit relationships and coordinating multi-stakeholder audit cycles
- Strong knowledge of accounting and financial reporting processes across revenue, procure-to-pay, treasury, and reporting cycles
- Excellent analytical skills and ability to translate findings into actionable recommendations
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable with senior leadership and external auditors
- Experience in fast-changing, scale-up environments; ability to bring structure where needed
- Experience with ERP/finance systems (NetSuite, SAP, Oracle); affinity for automation and digitization of processes
- German or other European language is a plus

- strong communication
- stakeholder management
- analytical mindset
- COSO/internal control frameworks
- SOX/ICFR-style control documentation and testing
- external audit coordination

📌 Risk & Control Lead - sennder (Barcelona)
🏢 Sennder
📍 Barcelona