Intuit Inc

Principal, Risk & Controls

Intuit Inc • $185K — $250K *
Mountain View, CA 94040In-Person
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in risk and controls, internal audit, technical accounting, or Finance operations focused in payments or fintech.
  • Experience owning control design for new payment products or flows.
  • In-depth understanding of money movement mechanics including settlement timing and reconciliation architecture.
  • Strong fluency in SOX 404 and experience with internal/external audit engagement.
  • Ability to translate regulatory obligations into actionable control requirements with Compliance and Legal teams.
  • Proven influence over Product and Engineering teams without formal authority, especially under launch pressures.
  • Active engagement with AI practices, expected at Intuit.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Finance risk and controls on new money movement launches through design to stabilization.
  • Design control architecture for fund management including settlement, safeguarding, and failure handling.
  • Define 'control ready' criteria for new products and ensure compliance prior to launch.
  • Collaborate with Technical Accounting to inform structuring decisions impacting accounting outcomes.
  • Own the SOX control framework related to money movement, addressing documentation and remedial action.
  • Manage testing and evaluation of controls alongside Internal Audit and SOX teams.
  • Establish metrics for early detection of control exposure and automate evidence generation using AI tooling.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with performance-based rewards.
  • Eligibility for cash bonuses and equity rewards.
  • Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Retirement savings plans with company match.
  • Continuous learning and professional development opportunities.
Full Job Description
Intuit moves money at scale: payments, payroll, bill pay, instant funding, consumer money accounts, and emerging digital asset products. Most of that surface is still being built, and every product on it carries settlement risk, partner risk, regulatory obligation, and financial reporting consequence.

The Money Movement Risk & Controls team owns the control posture for that surface, and we sit upstream of launch rather than downstream of it. This role is the Finance risk authority in the room with Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Legal: designing the control architecture new products ship with, before they ship, and owning the SOX environment that keeps the existing portfolio defensible. Individual contributor, reporting to the Group Manager, Process Modernization, GTM & Risk, with visibility into the CAO and CFO organizations.

Responsibilities
New Product & GTM Control Design

  • Lead Finance risk and controls on new money movement launches, from design through launch readiness and stabilization
  • Design the control architecture for new flows of funds: settlement and reconciliation, clearing and suspense structure, cutoff and timing, customer funds safeguarding, and failure-mode handling
  • Define what 'control ready' means for a product, assess against it, and hold the position when a launch date and a control gap are in tension
  • Partner with Technical Accounting on structure decisions that drive accounting outcomes: principal versus agent, guarantee and indemnity arrangements, custody and safeguarding
SOX & Controls Operation

  • Own the SOX control set for money movement: design, documentation, evidence standards, and remediation of deficiencies
  • Lead the Finance side of scoping, walkthroughs, testing, and deficiency evaluation with Internal Audit, SOX PMO, and External Audit
  • Redesign controls that no longer fit as volume, product mix, and partner architecture change, rather than patching them
  • Bring new products into the control environment on a defined post-launch timeline
Regulatory & Partner Risk

  • Serve as the Finance counterpart to Compliance and Legal on obligations that shape control design: BSA/AML dependencies, money transmitter licensing, safeguarding and permissible investment, Reg E and Reg CC, NACHA, and card network rules
  • Own the Finance risk view of partners in the flow of funds, including sponsor banks, processors, custodians, and program managers: control reliance, right to audit, and concentration risk
  • Support regulator, partner bank, and external auditor requests with organized, defensible documentation
Measurement & Automation

  • Build the metrics that surface exposure early: control coverage, break and aging trends, settlement exceptions
  • Design controls that are automated and evidence-generating from inception, applying AI tooling where it creates real leverage and naming where it introduces risk that must itself be controlled


Qualifications
Required

  • 12+ years in risk and controls, internal audit, technical accounting, or Finance operations, with meaningful time in payments, banking, or fintech
  • Ownership of control design for new products or new payment flows, not only testing controls someone else designed
  • Deep command of money movement mechanics: settlement timing, clearing and suspense behavior, reconciliation architecture, chargeback and return flows, and how each of them fails
  • Strong SOX 404 fluency, including deficiency evaluation and direct engagement with Internal and External Audit
  • Enough regulatory fluency to translate obligation into control requirement in a room with Compliance and Legal
  • Ability to influence Product and Engineering without formal authority, and to hold a control position under launch pressure
  • An active AI practice. At Intuit this is an expectation, not a differentiator
At Principal

  • You operate without direction. Scope arrives ambiguous and you return it resolved
  • You design frameworks that hold across a portfolio, not controls built one product at a time
  • You are the person the room defers to on money movement risk, without escalation to your manager
  • You size residual risk honestly: no manufactured comfort, no blocking on theoretical risk
  • You reduce single-threaded dependency rather than becoming it
Preferred

  • Stood up a control environment for a new product line, legal entity, or payment rail
  • Digital asset and stablecoin flows: custody, safeguarding, settlement finality
  • Bank partnership or program management models, including sponsor bank oversight expectations
  • Public company close and external reporting experience
  • CPA, CIA, or CISA


Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at ). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
The expected base pay range for this position is:
Mountain View $185,000 - $250,500
San Diego, CA $163,500- $221,500

About Intuit Inc

Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals. The company’s product portfolio includes TurboTax, a software solution that offers free tax filing, efile taxes, and income tax returns; Quicken; QuickBooks; Mint.com, and more. It also offers end-to-end solutions for online tax preparation, download products, mobile tax prep, mortgage interest and property tax, corporations tax, military tax, and more. Intuit was founded by Tom Proulx and Scott Cook in 1983 and is based in Mountain View, California. The company serves customers in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia with offices in the United States, Canada, India, U.K., and Singapore.

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Learn more about Intuit Inc
Size
13,500 employees
Market Cap
$107.4 billion
Industry
Consumer Technology
Net Income
$1.7 billion
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+19.6%
Revenue
$7.7 billion
NASDAQ
INTU
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