Forward Deployed Auditor
Petual · petual.ai
San FranciscoOn-site
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The job in short
A full-time on-site Audit / Tax role at Petual in San Francisco. Skills mentioned: ServiceNow, Audit.
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Details
- Found
- 38 d ago · posted 2026-10-01
- Location
- San Francisco
Full description
Petual is the AI-powered control tester for the modern enterprise. We automate the most labor-intensive work in internal audit and governance: testing whether a company's financial, operational, and technology controls actually work.
Public companies and regulated businesses trust us with the evidence behind their audit and risk decisions. We turn it into reviewable results and auditor-ready workpapers in minutes instead of days.
The Opportunity
We are hiring Audit & Control Specialists to own how customers deploy, adopt, and get value from Petual. It is a customer success role, but we are not hiring customer success generalists. We are hiring auditors. Most of our customers are trying AI for the first time in a function where being wrong has consequences, and they have to defend AI-assisted testing to their own external auditors. Guiding them through that, credibly, as a practitioner, is the heart of the job.
What You’ll Do
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Own deployment for your customers end to end: kickoff, configuration, control prioritization and sequencing, and a success plan with criteria the customer actually agrees to
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Get a customer's Risk Control Matrix into Petual and configure controls, test attributes, and samples so the first tests run clean
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Season controls to fine-tune attributes and provide any missing business context so results hold up under review, and keep them working as the customer's environment changes
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Train and coach internal audit teams on the product, run office hours during peak testing periods, and build a bench of power users inside each account
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Advise on the audit work itself, not just the software: how a control should be tested, what evidence is sufficient, and how to talk to external auditors about AI-assisted testing
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Triage and resolve customer issues, escalating to engineering with enough detail and reproduction to be actionable
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Coordinate setup and integrations with customer IT and SSO, and with GRC and ticketing systems such as AuditBoard, Workiva, ServiceNow, and Jira
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Bring patterns back to product and engineering: what customers keep asking for, where the agent struggles, and what would take the most work off the table
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Help build the playbooks, deployment checklists, and help-center content this function is currently running without
You Are
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An audit or controls practitioner first. You have tested controls yourself and can talk shop with a SOX manager without translation
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Consultative rather than reactive. You bring a point of view to a customer conversation instead of taking orders
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Process-minded. You can see how AI changes a customer's workflow and the people in it, and guide them through that change, not just through the software
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A clear teacher, comfortable running training and office hours for an audience that is at times skeptical of AI and that has a right to be careful
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Comfortable with ambiguity and thin documentation. A lot of this function is being built right now, and you will build part of it
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Able to carry many customers and shifting priorities over short periods without dropping things
What We’re Looking For
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A background in Big 4, internal audit, IT audit, risk advisory, or public accounting
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Hands-on control testing and workpaper experience
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Familiarity with GRC platforms such as AuditBoard, Workiva, or ServiceNow
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Experience in a customer-facing role covering implementation, consulting, professional services, or customer success on top of the audit background
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Experience helping an organization adopt a new tool or a materially new process
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CPA, CIA, CISA, or a similar certification. Useful, not required