Sr Auditor Analyst Offsite / Continuous Controls Monitoring

CRMA / Certified Data Analytics / Business Intelligence certifications

Certifications in Risk Management, Audit Analytics, Fraud Risk Management To execute and supervise Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), alert analytics, exception investigations, and risk surveillance activities through technology-driven monitoring models and rule-based scenarios. The role is responsible for directly handling complex and high-risk alerts, overseeing investigations performed by junior analysts, identifying potential frauds, operational errors, regulatory non-compliance, KYC deficiencies, and control weaknesses, and providing actionable risk intelligence to Internal Audit management.

Job Responsibilities

Actionables

Alert Analysis & Investigation

• Review and investigate alerts generated through monitoring models, rule-based scenarios, and exception detection mechanisms.
• Directly handle complex, high-risk, or judgement-intensive alerts.
• Analyse underlying transactions, customer activity, process exceptions, and supporting evidence.
• Identify potential fraud indicators, regulatory breaches, KYC concerns, operational errors, and control failures.

Team Supervision & Quality Review

• Allocate alerts and monitoring assignments to junior analysts.
• Review investigations, conclusions, risk classifications, and closure rationale prepared by team members.
• Ensure consistency, quality, and timeliness of alert reviews.
• Provide coaching and technical guidance on risk identification and investigation techniques.

Risk Assessment & Escalation

• Assess severity and impact of identified exceptions.
• Escalate significant fraud indicators, regulatory violations, KYC gaps, and control concerns.
• Perform root-cause analysis for recurring issues and emerging risk patterns.
• Support thematic reviews arising from monitoring outputs.

Monitoring Effectiveness

• Review recurring alerts, false positives, and monitoring trends.
• Recommend enhancements to monitoring rules, thresholds, scenarios, and risk indicators.
• Support development of new analytics-led monitoring routines.

Reporting & Risk Intelligence

• Prepare exception summaries, trend analyses, and escalation reports.
• Contribute to dashboards, risk intelligence reports, and thematic review inputs.
• Support audit planning through identification of emerging risk themes.

Thematic Reviews & Risk Intelligence

• Analyse monitoring outputs, recurring alerts, exceptions, complaints, incidents, losses, and audit observations to identify emerging risk themes.
• Support thematic reviews arising from fraud indicators, regulatory concerns, KYC deficiencies, operational control gaps, and recurring exceptions.
• Identify systemic issues and common root causes across branches, products, channels, and departments.
• Recommend enhancements to controls, monitoring rules, and risk mitigation measures.
• Provide analytical inputs for targeted audits, special reviews, and audit planning.

Key Skills

Technical Skills

• Continuous Controls Monitoring & Alert Management
• Data Analytics & Exception Analysis
• Fraud, Compliance & KYC Risk Monitoring
• Root Cause Analysis & Risk Assessment
• MIS Reporting & Dashboarding

Behavioural Skills

• Team Supervision
• Analytical Thinking
• Professional Skepticism
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication & Influencing Skills

Preferred Educational Certification

CRMA / Certified Data Analytics / Business Intelligence certifications

Certifications in Risk Management, Audit Analytics, Fraud Risk Management

Experience Required:

• Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM).
• Audit analytics and exception-based monitoring.
• Fraud, KYC, AML, compliance, or operational risk surveillance.
• Alert investigation and root-cause analysis.
• MIS, dashboarding, and risk reporting.

Experience supervising junior analysts/auditors.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Timeliness and quality of alert investigations.
• Accuracy of risk assessment and escalation decisions.
• Identification of material fraud, compliance, KYC, and control issues.
• Quality and productivity of junior analyst output.
• Effectiveness of monitoring enhancements and risk intelligence generation.

Adherence to CCM methodology and documentation standards