Senior Internal Auditor

Mercury

New York City, USremote country$132k-$166k/yrPosted Jun 17, 2026
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About the role

Mercury is building a complete finance stack for startups. We work hard to create the easiest and safest banking experience possible to simplify entrepreneurs' and business owners’ financial lives. To accomplish this mission, not only do we have to build/maintain a magical banking platform but must also develop and uphold the trust and safety of our customers and the financial industry. To contribute to this effort, we’re looking to hire a Senior Internal Auditor to support the efforts of our Internal Audit function at Mercury in the execution of our audit plan. You’ll help drive audits internally within Mercury as well as support audits being conducted externally by partners and third parties. Over time, you will become a subject matter expert on Mercury’s operations and compliance obligations.

Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

What You'll Do:

Assist in identifying, analyzing, and assessing risk throughout Mercury and contribute to the development of the annual audit plan

Scope and plan multiple audits across Mercury products and operations

Conduct process walkthroughs and execute audit testing to confirm the design and operational effectiveness of internal controls

Assess compliance with Mercury’s compliance obligations

Socialize, document, and report audit issues identified

Collaborate with teams to develop appropriate action plans, track audit issue remediation, and conduct issue follow up testing

Other duties as assigned

The Ideal Candidate:

Have experience scoping and planning new, complex audits

Have experience leading audit teams and coaching team members

Be comfortable conducting walkthroughs, creating audit test plans, and executing internal controls testing

Have experience working with financial services companies, and have a working knowledge of laws, regulations and risk management standards for financial services

Have experience in auditing BSA/AML/Sanctions compliance, payments (wires / ACH), and/or Card products.

Have the ability to quickly grasp and understand complex business processes

Be able to build relationships/partnerships and work cross-functionally to drive time-sensitive deliverables, issues tracking, and reporting

Have excellent written and verbal communication skills

Be able to manage their own schedule to ensure deadlines are met

Be a self-starter, someone who likes to innovate and think about how we can do things differently to be more efficient and effective

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.

Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $132,400 - $165,500

US employees outside of the New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: $119,200 - $149,000

Canadian employees (any location): CAD 125,100 - 156,400

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Compensation

This Finance role pays $132k-$166k/yr. Within typical range for finance roles in United States.

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