Location: Berlin, office-first

At SumUp, we are driven to empower small businesses across the globe by de-hassling their lives and helping them to succeed. Our vision as a global FinTech company is to build the first-ever global card acceptance brand, and we are well on our way as small businesses in over 33 countries around the world rely on SumUp to get paid. To get there, we are putting together an awesome team that is committed to one another and to our merchants. You could be our missing link! Help us bring card acceptance to the masses!

Join our EU Operational Risk and Internal Controls Team:

The Operational Risk and Internal Controls Team is perfect for those excited by the potential to work with different products and teams and have a desire and hunger to constantly improve and innovate in the risk assessment and control environment. We are passionate about our business and enabling its growth in a compliance manner that reduces risk.

What you'll do:

• Operational Risk and Internal Controls Management: Assist in tasks related to Risk and Controls assessment, including mapping risks and controls, testing, registering, and maintaining the registers updated in the system, and monitoring the remediation plans up to their implementation
• Policies and Procedures Management: Support in keeping the policies and procedures updated. Ensure they are approved, if needed, and available to the stakeholders
• Incident Management Support: Support managing incident data, including coordinating response efforts, communicating with stakeholders, and contributing to post-incident analysis
• Stakeholder Communication: Serve as a key liaison between the risk management function and other internal stakeholders to ensure alignment and address concerns
• Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities for enhancing operational risk management and internal control processes based on insights from day-to-day activities

You’ll be great for this role if you have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related fields
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in Operational Risk, Internal Controls, Audit, or related fields
• A proactive approach to teamwork, taking initiative, and demonstrating a strong sense of responsibility
• The ability to identify, escalate, and communicate problems to management in an effective and professional manner
• Strong analytical skills

Why you should join SumUp

• We’re a truly global team of 3000+ people from 60+ countries, spread across 3 continents
• We get together regularly for breakfasts, team events, office parties, and sports
• You’ll receive a budget for attending conferences and external training 
• We offer a corporate pension scheme, 28 days’ paid leave, free German and yoga classes, subsidized Urban Sports Club membership, a stock option plan, and other great benefits

Join Us at SumUp

Here, we believe in the everyday hero. Small business owners are at the heart of everything we do, so we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses efficiently. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can succeed in doing what they love.

SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. We do not make hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. We also strive for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibit harassment of any kind.

Please note that SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.

Job Application Tip

We recognise that candidates feel they need to meet 100% of the job criteria in order to apply for a job. Please note that this is only a guide. If you don’t tick every box, it’s ok too because it means you have room to learn and develop your career at SumUp.