Internal Controller Intern

Swan is Europe's embedded banking specialist. We empower software companies to embed banking features like accounts, cards, and payments directly into their products, under their own brand.Swan processes over €1.5 billion in monthly transactions for more than 150 companies—like Pennylane, Indy, Agicap, Libeo, and Lucca. Founded in 2019, the company has received growth capital from leading investors such as Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Bpifrance and Eight Roads. Swan is a principal member of Mastercard and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the French banking authority (ACPR).

Our mission

Banking belongs in business software

Many software companies already serve small businesses incredibly well: helping them send invoices, run payroll, manage inventory, and more. They're on a mission to become the central hub for managing every aspect of business life.

But when it comes to financial workflows, there's still a gap. Too many critical tasks like managing cash flow, tracking payments, or reconciling accounts happen outside the software, across spreadsheets, email threads, banking portals.

It's a missed opportunity. Business software shouldn't just record financial activity — it should run it.

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

Swan is looking for an Internal Controller Intern to join its Internal Control team within the Compliance, Risk & Internal Control department in March. 

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

Your mission

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.

Your team

Learn more about the Internal Control team

You're a great match if:

• You are a final-year Master's student in Finance, Audit, Risk Management, or a related field (Business School, University, etc.).

• You have a specialization in internal audit, management control, or compliance.

• You have good organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

• You have strong learning capacity and curiosity to understand business processes and control mechanisms.

• You are proactive in suggesting continuous improvements and identifying risks.

• You have analytical and critical thinking skills.

• You are a team player with the ability to collaborate with different departments (finance, compliance, IT, etc.).

• You are fluent in English (both written and spoken). An additional European language would be a plus in an international environment.

• Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door.

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.

  Perks of being a Swanee:

• Meal Vouchers: We provide a mal voucher card to cover your meals on work days.

• Transport: Monthly mobility package. In accordance with the company agreement for sustainable mobilities, you can now use your mobility package to pay for alternative commuting modes.

• Holidays: 2 days of paid leave per month.

• Sports: Thanks to our partnership with Classpass and Gymlib, you can enjoy advantageous discounts on subscriptions. They offer a wide range of sports activities as well as wellness activities. The offers are valid in several European cities, as well as online.

• Well-being support: access to Moka Care for mental health and wellness.

• Offsite: Once a year we gather to 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.

• A 20-min video call with our Talent Acquisition, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions

• A 45-min interview including a live case study with Manon, our Head of Internal Control