Internal Auditor - Data Security & AI
Work Arrangement
Office Days per Week: 3 days
Key Skills
Job Description
Ready to Get Shit Done? At bunq, we're building a bank that lives in the cloud, handles billions of transactions, and now integrates AI into our operations—all while keeping our user's data and trust intact. To operate at this scale and speed without compromising security, we need an Internal Auditor focused on Data Security & AI to audit our security controls, validate our AI governance, and ensure every system we build is resilient and trustworthy. As an Internal Auditor – Data Security & AI, your mission is to strengthen bunq's security and AI governance posture by auditing data protection controls, assessing AI model risks, identifying vulnerabilities before attackers do, and ensuring our security practices evolve as fast as our technology. Take Ownership As an Internal Auditor - Data Security & AI, you'll own: Audit security controls across infrastructure, applications, and operations, assessing access controls, encryption, monitoring, incident response, and third-party security effectiveness. Build an AI governance audit program that evaluates model development, bias testing, monitoring, transparency, and regulatory alignment (AI Act, NIS2). Identify and prioritize security and AI risks, conducting vulnerability assessments, pen test reviews, and model audits to surface gaps before they're exploitable. What You'll Work On Right Away Security Control Assessment: Audit bunq's critical security infrastructure (cloud environment, API security, data encryption, access management) and validate the effectiveness of controls; deliver a risk-prioritized remediation roadmap. AI Model Governance Program: Design and execute bunq's first AI audit program, evaluating model development practices, data quality controls, bias testing, monitoring, and transparency, identifying governance gaps and building a scalable AI audit framework. Data Protection & Privacy Audit: Conduct a comprehensive audit of bunq's data handling practices across all systems, assessing compliance with GDPR, data minimization principles, and data retention policies. Do You Have What It Takes? Security audit expertise: Hands-on experience auditing cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), application security, or operational security in fintech/high-security environments. AI governance basics: Familiarity with AI risk frameworks (NIST AI RMF), model risk management, or ML/AI system audits (emerging expertise is fine if you're ready to grow). Technical understanding: You grasp encryption, APIs, cloud architecture, and data flows well enough to ask smart audit questions. Risk prioritization: You design efficient audits, gather evidence, and present findings with impact—not just checklists. Fluency in English (ideally multilingual for our multi-market operations). Curious to see how we make life easy? - try the bunq app, it only takes 5 minutes to sign up. Your space to perform We give you the space and the tools you need to succeed 💪 🤟 Great, international colleagues who share your mindset 👩💻 Hybrid setup: after 3 months in-office, work 2 days remote, 3 days in-office weekly. 🧳 Digital Nomad Program: After your first year, enjoy up to 20 days per year to work while traveling, combining flexibility with strong team collaboration 🚀 We reward tenure with a dedicated travel budget: €1.5k after 2 years and €3k after 4 years to visit another core office. 📚 We support growth with bunq Academy and €1500 annual learning budget 🚌 Travel expenses are covered whether you come walking or by bike, bus or car (though we prefer green choices 🌳) 💻 A MacBook so you can Get Shit Done with us 🥦 Delicious lunches from our fabulous in-house chefs with vegan and vegetarian options 💰 An optional pension plan with monthly contribution from bunq 🧘 €60 monthly allowance via Alleo by Epassi, rolling over monthly and resetting annually 🍻 Friday drinks and other celebrations - bunq style All new hires are subject to Pre-employment Screening (PES), which includes checks conducted by our third-party partner, Zinc. This is part of our commitment to a secure and trustworthy workplace
Core Responsibilities
Audit security controls across cloud infrastructure, applications, operations, and third parties, and assess data protection and privacy practices. Establish and execute an AI governance audit program that evaluates model risks, development practices, bias testing, monitoring, transparency, and regulatory alignment, then prioritize remediation.
Requirements
The role requires hands-on experience auditing cloud, application, or operational security, ideally in fintech or another high-security environment, along with a working understanding of encryption, APIs, cloud architecture, and data flows. Familiarity with AI risk frameworks, model risk management, or AI system audits is expected, as are strong risk prioritization and evidence-based communication skills and fluency in English.
Benefits
- Hybrid Work Arrangement
- Digital Nomad Program
- Travel Budget
- Learning Budget
- Travel Expense Coverage
- Company Laptop
- In-House Lunches
- Optional Pension Plan
- Monthly Allowance
- Team Events
About bunq
Industry: Banking
Company size: 501-1,000 employees
We are bunq, bank of The Free. We’re here to break free from the status quo, and create a bank with our users in mind. Giving them the freedom to live life on their own terms. We built our own financial system from the ground up, and with the launch of our app in 2015, reinvented banking as you know it. And that’s just the beginning! We work around the clock to create fintech innovations that simply make banking and money management as easy, transparent, and fun as possible. Have a business? bunq Business was created as the ultimate bank account to save you time. This means no more paperwork, branch visits or bureaucracy ever again. Just the freedom to focus on what’s truly important: running your business. Go to bunq.com/business and find out how we can help your business thrive. Want to join us in our mission to revolutionise the traditional banking industry? You will become part of an international team of more than 500 bunqers (48 nationalities and counting!) that all have one thing in common: we love what we do. Waking up with brilliant ideas and going to bed knowing that you’ve personally contributed to them. That’s working at bunq. If that sounds like your kind of challenge, go to bunq.com/jobs get the ball rolling.