Internal Audit Manager

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide 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.

About the Role

We’re hiring an Internal Audit Manager to help deliver Nscale’s enterprise-wide internal audit programme and execute risk-based audits across financial, operational, compliance, and IT domains.

Based in the UK and reporting to the Senior Manager, Audit, Risk & Controls, you’ll sit within the Finance team and partner with stakeholders across infrastructure, operations, product, and corporate functions. The role combines hands-on, end-to-end audit delivery with growing exposure to enterprise risk management and internal controls.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of audit engagements, build trusted stakeholder relationships, and help embed a robust governance and controls culture across Nscale’s rapidly growing global business.

What you'll be doing

Internal Audit

• 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 the 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.

Enterprise Risk Management

• 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.

Internal Controls

• 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.

Stakeholder Engagement & Team Support

• 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.

Special Projects

• 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.

About You

• You have 6–10 years of experience in internal audit, external audit, risk management, controls, or a related field.
• You hold a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• You hold, or are actively working towards, an ACA, ACCA, CIA, CISA, or equivalent professional qualification.
• You have delivered audits from planning through reporting and follow-up, ideally in a high-growth, technology, or complex regulated environment.
• You understand IIA standards, the COSO Internal Control Framework, core risk methodologies, and control testing across financial, operational, and IT domains.
• You have working knowledge of ITGCs and familiarity with frameworks such as COBIT; exposure to SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, or Cyber Essentials Plus is beneficial.
• You have exposure to ERM frameworks and risk register maintenance, such as ISO 31000 or NIST RMF, and experience supporting SOX compliance programmes.
• You communicate complex findings clearly, apply strong professional judgement, and take a practical approach to problem-solving.
• You can manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, scaling environment and build trusted relationships across functions.
• Experience in AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, enterprise technology, international audit environments, board reporting, or GRC platforms such as Workiva or Vanta is advantageous.

Equal Opportunities Statement

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.

The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.