Internal Audit Lead — Finance & Operations

Leadingnation; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Bitget seeks a senior audit lead to oversee risk-based engagements across financial and operational domains. You will drive the annual audit plan, review complex reviews, and ensure independence while providing advisory input on new products and changes.

You will manage governance, PoR-related controls, and cash/treasury reconciliations while communicating with executives and audit committees.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in internal/external audit with team leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of financial-reporting controls and risk management.
• Ability to challenge senior management with credible findings.
• Excellent analytical and written reporting skills.
• Experience at a crypto exchange, custodian, or trading firm a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the pillar's audit engagements end to end, ensuring quality against IIA standards.
• Own risk-based annual audit plan aligned to the group universe and emerging risks.
• Cover financial-reporting controls, treasury, reconciliations, and close processes.
• Oversee exchange and corporate operations audits, including PoR, custody, and governance.
• Present findings to Head of Internal Audit and senior management with remediation tracking.
• Coach and develop auditors, set technical standards, and advise on new products.

Skills

Audit leadership

Financial & operational risk

Analytical ability

Report writing

Bilingual English/Chinese

Education

CPA/CA/ACCA/CIA or equivalent

Job description

About us

Bitget is the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution.

Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry's lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

What you'll do

• Strategy & plan. Set the pillar's audit strategy and own the risk-based annual plan, mapped to the group audit universe and refreshed for emerging risks.
• Deliver. Lead, execute, and quality-review engagements end to end in line with IIA Standards, personally leading the most complex or sensitive reviews.
• Finance. Cover financial-reporting controls, the close process, treasury, cash management, and key reconciliations.
• Operations. Cover exchange and corporate operations — Proof of Reserves and asset-liability integrity, custody reconciliation, listing, the trading and liquidation engine and mark-price/index governance, plus procurement, vendor/third-party risk, and payroll.
• Report & influence. Present risk-ranked findings and thematic insight to the Head of Internal Audit, and senior management; agree and track remediation to closure.
• Lead. Lead, coach and develop the pillar's auditors, set technical standards, and provide advisory input on new products and change without impairing independence.

What you'll need

• 10+ years in internal/external audit covering financial and operational areas, gained at a bank, financial institution, Big 4 firm, or regulated financial-services business — including significant team or engagement leadership.
• A relevant professional certification: CPA, CA, ACCA, CIA, or equivalent.
• Deep knowledge of financial-reporting controls, treasury/reconciliation processes, and operational risk, with the credibility to challenge senior management.
• Strong analytical and report-writing skills, and a track record of presenting to executives or audit committees.
• Experience at a crypto exchange, custodian, brokerage, or trading firm, or familiarity with Proof of Reserves, custody reconciliation, and liquidation/mark-price mechanics.
• Data-analytics ability for reconciliation and full-population testing.
• Strong command in both English and Chinese.

Why Bitget?

• Bitget is the world's leading web 3 platform for copy trading and one of the world's largest and most respected exchanges
• We are a global company with staff members from over 50 different countries and regions
• We are growing and looking for world-class ambitious talents to help us continue this journey
• We have a streamlined structure that empowers employees to work efficiently, delivering the best results in a short timeframe
• We offer competitive salaries and benefits
• Blockchain technology and digital assets have the potential to change finance in a way no other technology can - be part of it!

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