About the Role
Nscale is seeking an Internal Audit Manager to lead the company's enterprise-wide internal audit program. This role involves executing risk-based audits across financial, operational, compliance, and IT domains, reporting to the Senior Manager, Audit, Risk & Controls within the Finance team. The position offers hands-on audit delivery with exposure to enterprise risk management and internal controls, providing an opportunity to own audit engagements, build stakeholder relationships, and foster a strong governance and controls culture in a rapidly growing global business.
Responsibilities
- Plan and deliver risk-based audits across financial, operational, compliance, and IT domains, from scoping through reporting and follow-up.
- Lead fieldwork, including walkthroughs, documentation reviews, and testing of control design and operating effectiveness.
- Contribute to the annual risk-based internal audit plan, ensuring appropriate coverage of key business risks.
- Identify root causes of control weaknesses and develop practical, value-adding recommendations.
- Prepare clear, well-evidenced reports, present findings, and monitor agreed management actions through remediation.
- Support the group-wide risk management framework, including facilitating risk workshops and interviews.
- Help identify, assess, and monitor risks across IT, Finance, Regulatory, Operational, and Strategic domains.
- Maintain the enterprise risk register so risks and mitigating actions remain current and accurate.
- Contribute risk insights to stakeholder, board, and audit committee reporting.
- Support the design, testing, and continuous improvement of internal controls across financial and operational processes.
- Perform control walkthroughs and design and operating effectiveness testing, identifying deficiencies and tracking remediation.
- Help align control practices with relevant audit standards, SOX-style principles, and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct IT general controls reviews covering access management, change management, and IT operations.
- Contribute to controls policies, procedures, and supporting guidance, while acting as a day-to-day contact for external auditors.
- Build strong working relationships across Finance, IT, Legal, and other business functions.
- Coordinate with external auditors, including managing information requests and audit logistics.
- Supervise and review work completed by junior team members or outsourced audit resources.
- Support the Senior Manager in coaching junior colleagues and building a collaborative, high-performing audit function.
- Champion accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement across audit, risk, and controls.
- Support finance, operational, system, and transformation projects with audit, risk, or controls implications.
- Assess the internal controls impact of new systems, processes, and organisational changes.
- Provide advisory input that embeds risk, control, and compliance considerations into project design.
Requirements
- 6–10 years of experience in internal audit, external audit, risk management, controls, or a related field.
- Delivered audits from planning through reporting and follow-up, ideally in a high-growth, technology, or complex regulated environment.
- Understand IIA standards, the COSO Internal Control Framework, core risk methodologies, and control testing across financial, operational, and IT domains.
- Working knowledge of ITGCs and familiarity with frameworks such as COBIT.
- Exposure to ERM frameworks and risk register maintenance, such as ISO 31000 or NIST RMF.
- Experience supporting SOX compliance programmes.
- Communicate complex findings clearly, apply strong professional judgement, and take a practical approach to problem-solving.
- Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, scaling environment and build trusted relationships across functions.
Skills
- AI infrastructure
- Cloud platforms
- Enterprise technology
- International audit environments
- Board reporting
- GRC platforms such as Workiva or Vanta
- COBIT
- ISO 31000
- NIST RMF
- SOX compliance
- ITGCs
- COSO Internal Control Framework
- IIA standards
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6-10 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- ACA, ACCA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent professional qualification (or actively working towards).
About the Company
- Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI, providing cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers.
- Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development.
- Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.
- We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency.
- As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work.
- If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.
Equal Opportunity
- We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
- If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
