IT Risks & Control Manager

About Nebius: Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure. Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI. Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D. The role Nebius is seeking a IT Risk & Controls Manager to act as an embedded risk partner to our engineering and technology organizations. You will help scale and strengthen a modern IT SOX and controls framework across Nebius’s custom-built AI cloud platform, infrastructure, corporate technology environment and other systems supporting financial reporting. This role goes beyond traditional IT audit testing. You will work directly with engineering leaders, system owners, Finance, Internal Controls and external auditors to identify risk, design scalable controls, improve evidence quality, drive remediation and embed compliance into the way our technology organizations operate. The successful candidate will combine deep IT risk and controls expertise with meaningful in-house technology experience. You must be equally comfortable discussing technical control design with engineers, explaining risk implications to business leaders and aligning audit expectations with external assurance providers. Your responsibilities will include: • Act as the risk and controls partner for an assigned technology organization or system portfolio, developing a detailed understanding of its architecture, operations, risks and financial-reporting dependencies. • Own and continuously improve the relevant IT risk and control framework, including system scoping, risk assessment, RCM and control-catalogue maintenance, documentation and control ownership. • Lead IT SOX readiness for assigned systems, including walkthrough preparation, evidence-quality review, testing coordination, issue evaluation and remediation oversight. • Partner with engineering, platform, infrastructure, security and corporate IT teams to design and implement scalable controls that address risk while supporting operational efficiency. • Design, assess and enhance ITGCs across areas such as user access, privileged access, segregation of duties, change management, SDLC, system operations, incident management and third-party services. • Assess IT application controls, automated controls and IT-dependent business controls, including the completeness and accuracy of system-generated information used in business-process controls. • Evaluate how business controls depend on systems, integrations, configurations, reports and underlying ITGCs, and work with both business and IT control owners to resolve gaps. • Apply risk and controls thinking to modern engineering practices, including cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, repositories, deployment processes, containerized environments and audit logging. • Lead the assessment and remediation of control gaps arising from new systems, major technology transformations, platform changes, integrations and acquisitions. • Review third-party assurance reports and determine the impact of vendor controls and complementary user-entity controls on the Nebius control environment. • Maintain effective working relationships with external auditors and advisers, aligning on audit scope, evidence expectatio