Audit, Technology

About Column

For companies building financial technology and transforming the financial services space, the biggest bottleneck to their growth and innovation is often the underlying banks and infrastructure stack they rely on. We have spent our careers founding and scaling companies like Plaid, Square, Meta, Blend, and Affirm, and have seen this problem firsthand — builders and developers needing to partner with traditional banks, and creating API and abstraction layers over the patchwork that is the bank, its core, and many other vendors.

All of this results in a complex (and often expensive) banking supply chain involving a user, fintech, BaaS middleware provider, bank, core and the Federal Reserve.

At Column, we set out to simplify and fix this. We are a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. This means a safer, more transparent, and less costly banking supply chain. Come build with us!

Column runs on infrastructure we built ourselves, with no legacy banking core underneath it which means when something needs auditing, there's no vendor to point to and no black box to wave 're looking for a high-agency audit professional to own that problem, with a focus on Information Technology and Security alongside core banking, BSA/AML, and fintech-specific risk.

You'll run the full audit lifecycle risk assessment, planning, fieldwork, reporting, follow-up working directly with Information Security, Engineering, Payments, BSA/AML, Compliance, Lending, Growth, and TPRM. This isn't a background function checking boxes after the fact: you'll be embedded with these teams as they build, and what you find will shape how Column governs itself while scaling a nationally chartered bank.

This role is based in our Presidio office in San Francisco and follows a 3-4-day/week, in-person schedule. You will report to Column's Head of Internal Audit.

• Design, lead, and execute end-to-end audits scoping, fieldwork, reporting, issue follow-up across core banking, technology, compliance, fintech partnerships, lending, payments, cards, and API infrastructure. Report findings straight to senior leadership.

• Own a risk-based audit plan built for what Column actually is: a software company running a regulated bank. Evolve it as we grow.

• Partner directly with Engineering and Information Security to audit SDLC, data protection, IAM, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, AWS, and how AI is used in our development process.

• Audit third-party risk management and fintech partner oversight against regulatory expectations.

• Use data analytics and AI to surface emerging risks, automate testing, and make audit faster and more efficient.

• Evaluate risk and control effectiveness across IT/IS, BSA/AML, sanctions, fair lending, consumer protection, privacy, and ALM/interest rate risk grounded in NIST and regulatory expectations from the OCC, FRB, and FDIC.

• Manage third-party audit staff to keep delivery sharp and on time.

• Partner with the Head of Internal Audit level up the function itself:
  Audit Committee materials, QA, risk assessment, metrics.

• 5-10 years of audit, risk, or compliance experience in banking, fintech, consulting, or technology

• Real technology audit depth IT risk, cybersecurity, modern software development, including how AI is changing the dev process

• Hands-on audit ability in a cloud-native environment: AWS IAM, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform), secrets management

• Comfortable pulling and interpreting data straight from Cloud Trail, Datadog, and Okta via API or query, not just a dashboard

• Working knowledge of BSA/AML, sanctions (KYC, CDD, SAR, OFAC), and core banking regulation (OCC, FRB)

• You build trust fast — with engineers, senior leadership, and regulators

• CISA, CISSP, CIA, CISM, or CRISC certifications a plus

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options that are 100% covered by Column for you and 100% covered for your dependents!

• Comprehensive family planning…