What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director Internal Audit, Americas position at Paysafe?
About Paysafe
Paysafe is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With 29 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $152 billion in 2024, and approximately 3,300 employees located in 12 countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in 48 currencies around the world. Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile-initiated transactions, real-time analytics and the convergence between brick-and-mortar and online payments. Further information is available at www.paysafe.com.
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Position Summary:
We are seeking a Director of Internal Audit, Americas. Reporting to the Chief Audit Officer, you will contribute to the value of the Group Internal Audit function by leading internal audit assurance and advisory activities for the North America businesses and Latin America region, to achieve the Group Internal Audit objectives, mission and vision. This role is based in our Jacksonville, Florida office and offers a hybrid work environment where you will have a blend of 3 in office working days and 2 remote working days during the work week.
The global internal audit mission is to protect and grow Paysafe’s value by providing objective, risk-based assurance and insight to the business, enabling it to drive ongoing improvement in governance, risk management and controls.
Being an independent, business-focused, function of the highest integrity, that adopts a compliant, collaborative, respectful approach to its work, and is recognized as a critical contributor to a robust, resilient and successful Paysafe through effectively achieving the Audit Mission.
Responsibilities:
- Representing IA at the regulated entity Board meetings for Skrill US.
- Proactively identifying improvement opportunities related to the quality and compliance of internal audit deliverables, and owning initiatives to ensure improvements are implemented. Acting as a core part of the IA leadership to drive change and add value through our work.
- Liaising with third party audit service providers and other internal/external partners of Internal Audit in order to ensure audit work is conducted effectively and efficiently; Monitoring the performance of outsourced audit partners through the use of KPIs and periodically report performance outcomes to the CAO.
- Building an in-house team to promote an ‘internal first’ approach to using internal staff for Americas audit work.
- Engaging with local regulators as part of recurring meetings and ad-hoc inspections.
- Building strong relationships with US leadership and developing the optimum risk-based audit plan to cover the North America and LatAm regions with sufficient coverage of mandatory and risk-based audit topics.
- Maintaining and continuously improving standard audit documentation supporting regular/recurring internal audit engagements.
Qualifications:
- Strong academic record, including bachelor or higher degree equivalent
- Industry-recognized audit or security certification such as CISA/CRISC/CGEIT/CISSP/CIA (IT), CPA/CIA/CFE/MBA (Finance, Compliance and Financial Crime, Operations), PMP (Projects)
- 10 years experience in a senior role in internal audit, security, risk, compliance or other assurance discipline, working within a global function
- 5 years of people leadership experience leading high performing teams
- 5 years experience in Financial Services sector
- Strong knowledge of SOX control frameworks, including COSO and/or COBIT, and experience of SOX 404 controls testing
- A deep understanding of Paysafe’s business, associated risks and governance models at divisional level
- Big 4 background is desired but not required
- Payments/ EMI background in a listed US firm is also considered a plus but not required
Life at Paysafe:
One network. One partnership. At Paysafe, this is not only our business model; this is our mindset when it comes to our team. Being a part of Paysafe means you’ll be one of over 3300 members of a world-class team that drives our business to new heights every day and where we are committed to your personal and professional growth.
Our culture values humility, high trust & autonomy, a desire for excellence and meeting commitments, strong team cohesion, a sense of urgency, a desire to learn, pragmatically pushing boundaries, and accomplishing goals that have a direct business impact.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Paysafe provides equal employment opportunities to all employees, and applicants for employment, and prohibits discrimination of any type with regard to ethnicity, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other protected characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of recruitment and employment. If you need any reasonable adjustments please let us know. We will be happy to help and look forward to hearing from you.
