About

 
Swan is the leading European fintech specialized in embedded banking. A laureate of the French government’s selective year list of tech champions, “French Tech Next 120,” we are quickly expanding across Europe.

Over 100 European companies have already seamlessly integrated banking services such as accounts, cards, and payments into their products through our Banking-as-a-Service platform. This approach, known as “embedded finance”, empowers businesses to elevate their offerings and create new revenue streams — often times tripling their revenue!

Our founders’ vision from the beginning was Simplicity: that anyone with a fintech idea at 2 am can visit our website, start building, and buy themselves a coffee with a self-issued card the very next day. That vision has taken us far.

Following a 38M€ Series B round last September, we have been doubling our headcount and already have over 230 Swanees across offices in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Milan! If you’re excited about joining a European fintech adventure, Swan is the way!

To learn more about us: About Swan ; Our story.

Job description

Swan is looking for an Intern Internal Controller to join its Internal Control team within the Compliance, Risk & Internal Control department. You will work closely with the all team lead by Manon, our Head of Internal Control.

This team is responsible for ensuring the security and safety of our banking features and always has to consider the best way to combine multiple areas, such as business, legal, regulatory, and customer support.

As both a technology and financial services company, Swan relies on its Compliance, Risk & Internal Control team to make these pieces fit together!

As an Internal Controller, your primary responsibility is to ensure the security of all processes at Swan and contribute to risk control through regular controls on diverses topics. You will work in collaboration with all the Swan teams (such as compliance, payment, sales, finance, etc.) to ensure the correct coverage and management of all risks.

✨ Main tasks

The following responsibilities are expected of the role:

• Conduct controls, analyze and report results: Perform internal control assessments, support the analysis of results, and help prepare reports under the supervision of other team members. Contribute to presenting findings to stakeholders eventually.
• Document procedures related to second-level control: Help document second-level control procedures by organizing and maintaining clear and accessible records, ensuring regular updates of these documents.
• Contribute to regulatory reportings: Support the team in preparing regulatory reports by collecting necessary data and contributing to the drafting process under the guidance of more experienced team members, while learning regulatory standards.
• Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Propose ideas for continuous improvement of internal control processes and follow ongoing optimization projects, observing the implementation of new tools or methodologies with the team.
• Internal Communication Assistance: Assist in drafting internal communications related to internal control updates and control results to be shared with various departments.
• Support in Monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Assist in tracking and updating key risk indicators for Internal Control department.
• Conduct Benchmarking Studies: Research best practices in internal control processes from other companies or industries and present findings to the internal control team for possible implementation.

Preferred experience

✨ You’re a great match if:

• Final-year Master’s student in Finance, Audit, Risk Management, or a related field (Business School, University, etc.).
  
• A specialization in internal audit, management control, or compliance is a plus.
  
• Good organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
  
• Strong learning capacity and curiosity to understand business processes and control mechanisms.
  
• Proactive in suggesting continuous improvements and identifying risks.
  
• Analytical and critical thinking skills.
  
• Team player with the ability to collaborate with different departments (finance, compliance, IT, etc.).
  
• Fluent in French and English (both written and spoken). An additional European language would be a plus in an international environment.

It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying! 🙌 

Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area.

About Swan

✨ Perks of being a Swanee:

• Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib.
• We respect your lunch break. Mid-day free-time is sacred and our French office even provides a Swile card to cover your meal on work days. 🥪
• Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax.
• This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day.

✨ Our values:

Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.

Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.

Long Term: We always play the long game, whether it's to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.

Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners' expectations— whatever it takes.

Be Human: We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.

You can find out more about our culture.

Recruitment process

• An interview with a member of the Internal Control Team ;
• An interview with Manon, our Head of Internal Control.