Head of Internal Audit

We are a leading trading platform that is ambitiously expanding to the four corners of the globe. Our top-rated products have won prestigious industry awards for their cutting-edge technology and seamless client experience. We deliver only the best, so we are always in search of the best people to join our ever-growing talented team.

As Head of Internal Audit for Capital.com UK, you will build and lead an independent assurance function at the center of a fast-scaling regulated business. This role matters because we are expanding across products, markets, and regulatory expectations simultaneously, requiring a control environment that evolves as quickly as the business itself.

You will help shape how governance, risk, and accountability operate inside a modern trading platform, combining in-house expertise with specialist co-sourced capability to deliver credible, risk-based assurance across the firm.

Your work will directly influence how Capital.com scales responsibly, strengthens trust with regulators, and supports long-term growth in increasingly complex financial markets.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and execution of a risk-based internal audit strategy aligned with CCUK’s regulatory obligations, operational priorities, and evolving risk landscape.

• Drive independent assurance across trading operations, technology, AML and financial crime controls, outsourcing arrangements, conduct risk, and regulatory compliance, helping the business scale with confidence.

• Shape the hybrid internal audit framework by combining internal capability with specialist co-sourced expertise, ensuring audit coverage remains scalable, credible, and proportionate to business risk.

• Partner with the Audit Committee, senior leadership, Compliance, Risk, and Finance teams to provide clear challenge, practical insight, and transparent reporting on material risks and control effectiveness.

• Ensure audit methodologies, working practices, and reporting standards remain aligned with FCA expectations, IIA standards, and broader industry best practice.

• Identify emerging risks across areas such as operational resilience, AI and model risk, digital assets, and platform technology, proactively adapting audit coverage as the business evolves.

• Oversee co-sourced audit providers by defining engagement standards, reviewing quality of delivery, and maintaining independence and consistency across all audit outputs.

• Monitor remediation progress for audit findings, driving accountability and timely resolution of control gaps across the organisation.

• Support major business initiatives, regulatory change programmes, and new product activity through independent review and constructive challenge before implementation.

• Build and develop a high-performing audit capability through coaching, hiring, succession planning, and knowledge-sharing across the wider group.

• Maintain strong governance, documentation, and evidence management practices to support regulatory scrutiny and Board-level oversight.

Requirements:

Industry Knowledge

• You have significant internal audit or assurance experience within a UK-regulated investment firm, broker, fintech, or financial services business.

• You understand the UK regulatory environment deeply, including FCA requirements across MIFIDPRU, SYSC, COBS, Consumer Duty, AML/CTF, and operational resilience.

• You have experience auditing trading platforms, technology environments, financial crime controls, outsourced providers, and customer outcomes within complex regulated businesses.

• You are confident operating within hybrid or co-sourced audit models and understand how to maintain quality, independence, and accountability across multiple delivery channels.

• You hold a recognised professional qualification such as CIA, ACA, ACCA, CPA, or CISA.

Problem-Solving

• You can assess complex control environments, identify root causes, and translate findings into practical, commercially realistic recommendations.

• You know how to prioritise risk effectively in fast-moving businesses where regulation, technology, and product development evolve simultaneously.

• You are comfortable working through ambiguity and adapting audit approaches as new risks emerge.

Collaboration & Influence

• You build credibility quickly with Boards, regulators, senior executives, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• You communicate clearly and directly, balancing independence with constructive partnership.

• You can challenge effectively while maintaining trust and alignment across the organisation.

Mindset & Style

• You take ownership and operate with strong integrity, objectivity, and professional judgement.

• You are proactive, resilient, and comfortable making decisions in a high-growth, highly regulated environment.

• You bring curiosity and commercial awareness, with the ability to balance regulatory expectations against business realities.

• You are motivated by building scalable, modern assurance functions that evolve alongside ambitious global businesses.

What you will get in return:

• Competitive Salary: We believe great work deserves great pay! Your skills and talents will be rewarded with a salary that makes you feel valued and motivated.

• Work-Life Harmony: Join a company that genuinely cares about you - because your life outside of work matters just as much as your time on the clock. #LI-Hybrid

• Generous Time Off: Need a breather? Our annual leave policy lets you recharge and enjoy life outside of work without a worry.

• Employee Referral Program: Love working here? Share the love! Bring your talented friends on board and get rewarded for growing our awesome team.

• Comprehensive Health & Pension Benefits: From medical insurance to pension plans, we’ve got your back. Plus, location-specific benefits and perks!

• Workation Wonderland: Live your digital nomad dreams with 30 extra days to work remotely from anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply). Adventure awaits!

• Volunteer Days: Make a difference! Take two additional paid days each year to support causes you care about and give back to the community.

Be a key player at the forefront of the digital assets movement, propelling your career to new heights! Join a dynamic and rapidly expanding company that values and rewards talent, initiative, and creativity. Work alongside one of the most brilliant teams in the industry.