Global Payments Tech Audit Leader

TikTok Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

TikTok Inc. is seeking a senior Internal Audit professional to lead technology audits across payment and financial products globally.

You will partner with regulators, finance, product, and engineering teams to ensure robust controls, evidence-based findings, and actionable remediation plans. The role emphasizes building audit strategy, delivering complex reviews from planning to reporting, and embedding data analytics and automation into assurance processes, with cross-region collaboration and

Qualifications

• Progressive compliance or technology auditing experience within payments, fintech platforms, lending businesses, professional services firms, or regulatory bodies.
• Strong understanding of payment regulations and performing reviews of payment systems, technology architecture, and supporting control environments for compliance.
• Experience building audit plans for payment/FinTech entities in APAC or EMEA, and leading complex technology audits or risk reviews independently from planning through executive reporting.
• Prior experience working with regulators responsible for payment or money transmitter related regulations.
• Proven analytical ability to assess complex technology environments against risk assessment outcomes, industry best practices, internal standards and external regulatory requirements.
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills combined with the ability to provide a credible technical challenge to the business.
• Strong professional judgment and the ability to make risk-based decisions in complex and evolving environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement technology audit strategies and plans for payment, lending, and other regulated financial products across TikTok payment entities in APAC and EMEA.
• Lead complex, risk-based technology audits and advisory reviews from planning through reporting, including risk assessment, scoping, control evaluation, testing, issue development, and executive communication.
• Act as the primary Technology Audit Leader with regulators and supervisory authorities, maintaining constructive, transparent relationships with relevant authorities in APAC, EMEA, LATAM etc.
• Lead or support reviews covering Payment Technology Architecture and Platforms, End-to-End Payment Processing, Payment Security and Integrations, and Technology Risk Assessment.
• Develop practical, risk-based recommendations addressing root causes while considering product, engineering, regulatory, and business requirements; communicate with engineers and product teams.
• Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with management, understand the business to provide value-added services, and advise on design and implementation of technology solutions.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Tech auditing

Analytics

Communication skills

Problem solving

Risk-based decision making

Education

Professional certifications (CISA, CISSP, CRISC, CAMS, CIA)

Tools

SQL

Python

Auditing tools

Job description

TikTok Inc. is seeking a senior Internal Audit professional to lead technology audits across payment and financial products globally.

You will partner with regulators, finance, product, and engineering teams to ensure robust controls, evidence-based findings, and actionable remediation plans. The role emphasizes building audit strategy, delivering complex reviews from planning to reporting, and embedding data analytics and automation into assurance processes, with cross-region collaboration and