Internal Audit Financial Crime & Conduct Manager

Payward's Audit & Risk function operates as an Integrated Assurance organization, bringing together Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management under a unified risk oversight strategy. The function spans Internal Audit, SOX Compliance, and Enterprise Risk Management across multiple regulated entities and jurisdictions. Internal Audit partners with co-sourced providers, maintains direct reporting lines to the Global and Local Audit Committee Chairs, and is building a financial crime and conduct assurance capability at the forefront of crypto and financial innovation.

You'll partner with Internal Audit leadership to run the global financial crime and conduct audit program, evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of controls across AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, market integrity, and conduct risk. This is a global, multi-jurisdiction mandate that is entity and region agnostic, with an immediate focus on our overseas operations and the regulatory regimes that govern them.

Financial crime compliance will be a primary focus, and the role will also focus on conduct and market integrity risk. This is a hands-on role with real ownership over scope, stakeholders, and outcomes - you'll play a central role in how the Internal Audit function assesses some of the highest-visibility risks our business carries. If you want financial crime audit work where the landscape is genuinely current and your work has a real impact on how the business protects itself, this is it.

Responsibilities span the following areas:

Financial crime & conduct audit leadership

• Lead audits across financial crime compliance, including AML/CFT, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption, as well as conduct and market integrity risk, across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory regimes

• Perform risk assessments to identify key areas of exposure and prioritize audit coverage.

• Design and execute control testing across business and compliance processes, evaluating both design and operating effectiveness

• Assess conduct and market integrity controls, including market abuse and surveillance, personal account dealing and conflicts of interest, and consumer protection

• Shape and contribute to multi-year audit plans aligned to Payward's financial crime and conduct risk profile across jurisdictions

• Lead AI-enabled auditing - apply generative AI, agentic workflows, and data analytics across the audit lifecycle to expand testing coverage, sharpen risk targeting, and improve efficiency, while retaining human ownership of judgment and conclusions

Engagement & issue management