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

As an Operational Risk Analyst you will

• 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.
• Support in maintaining the policies and procedures up to date. Ensure they are approved, if needed, and available to the stakeholders. 
• Incident Management Support: Provide support in managing incident data, including coordinating response efforts, communicating with stakeholders, and contributing to post-incident analysis.
• Serve as a key liaison between the risk management department and other internal stakeholders to ensure alignment and address concerns.
• 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 both Portuguese and English.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in Operational Risk, Internal Controls, Audit or related fields.
• A proactive approach to teamwork, with the ability to take initiative and demonstrate 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 3200+ people from 80+ countries, spread across 4 continents
• The opportunity to work on large-scale fintech products used by millions of small businesses around the world
• A dedicated annual Learning & Development budget (R$10.000/year) for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education
• A corporate pension scheme
• The opportunity to work on large-scale fintech products used by millions of businesses around the world
• Access to the SumUp Sabbatical, our Employee assistance program for mental health as well as Fitness and language learning 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.

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