At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, Porto by Anchorage Digital, and other offerings.
The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Learn more at anchorage.com, on X @Anchorage, and on LinkedIn.
AAs a Member of the Global Internal Audit Team, you'll have the opportunity to participate in internal audits over various areas related to Anchorage’s business and IT operations, including compliance program audits. You can apply your audit, financial services, fintech, financial crimes compliance, and data analytics experience to executing high quality audits.
You are capable of executing audits under the guidance and mentorship of our experienced Audit Leads, contributing to solving problems, and making good judgement when evaluating issues and associated risks. You not only understand the “why” and the “bigger picture,” but meaningfully contribute to prioritizing the work within the team. Additionally, you will have exposure across business, compliance, and IT operations in a fast-moving digital assets startup environment, you will be recognized as a reliable partner who can apply your banking audit experience to have significant influence within and outside the team.
We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Internal Audit role:
Technical Skills:
- Execute high-quality internal audit testing in an efficient manner, adhering to Global Internal Audit Standards, internal audit methodology, and documentation standards with appropriate supervision.
- Develop professional expertise and increase technical knowledge of financial services, fintech, and financial crimes compliance audits.
- Demonstrate a growing understanding of ITGCs, application controls, cloud security (AWS/GCP), and blockchain infrastructure.
- Leverage data analytics (e.g., SQL, Python) and IT audit skills to perform control testing and identify anomalies in large datasets.
- Draft audit results and clearly articulate the operational and risk impact to the Audit Lead and relevant business stakeholders.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Under supervision and direction of the Audit Lead, assist in all phases of planned internal audits (planning, fieldwork, and reporting), as well as the validation of remediation for open issues.
- Exercise good judgement, and apply learned techniques to understand, analyze and investigate problems or issues, and contribute to solutions.
- Prepare fieldwork materials and data analytics for reviews, ensuring documentation is accurate, complete, and supports testing conclusions.
- Research industry related topics to continually deepen understanding and knowledge of relevant areas of specialization or domains, systems, processes and frameworks.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Collaborate across Internal Audit and adjacent teams to understand process flows, evaluate audit scope, identify risks and control gaps, and develop mitigating management action plans.
Communication and Influence:
- Communicate and work effectively with diverse teams; demonstrate the ability to listen actively, incorporate feedback, and maintain a track record of successful teamwork.
- Communicate complex issues clearly and credibly across a wide range of audiences, develop effective relationships with stakeholders across the business.
- Draft, discuss, and present audit findings to the Audit Lead for review and respective stakeholders.
- Contribute actively to team activities and build productive internal and external working relationships.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
- Experience executing internal audits and/or knowledge of audit or compliance assurance/testing at a financial institution, including understanding of various regulatory requirements.
- Ability to contribute to cross-functional goals, collaborating across Internal Audit, Compliance and stakeholder teams, to problem-solve and enhance teamwork.
- Ability to take ownership, work independently, and yet still be team-oriented.
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt traditional banking experience to the crypto industry; ensuring we support Anchorage Digital's products, services, and strategic initiatives.
- Passion for promoting a positive working environment through excellent listening, speaking, and demonstrated empathy for team members.
- Talent for resolving a wide range of issues in creative ways. Capable of suggesting different approaches and adapting to changing circumstances.
- Strong problem-solving skills, have meticulous attention to detail, and produce high quality work products, including creating detailed work papers to sufficiently support the results of the testing engagement.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- CIA or related certifications, or are in the process of obtaining certification.
- Experience working at or adjacent to a crypto-native company.
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 600 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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