Moniepoint
Lead, Channels and Audit Analytics
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
Nigeria only
Employer listed it 6 weeks ago · Added 5 days ago
Been open since 6 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Nigeria only
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Lead
Category
Data
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $185k–$265k a year, a typical range taken from 158 lead-level data roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in Nigeria. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote, Nigeria, Moniepoint Headquaters"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Residency required in Nigeria
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
About us
Ranked in 2024 by the Financial Times, Moniepoint is Africa’s fastest-growing fintech, trusted by over 10 million business and individual accounts, processing billions of Naira in transactions monthly. Our mission is to enable financial happiness for every African, everywhere.
Job Title: Lead, Channels and Audit Analytics
Department: Internal Audit
Reports to: Director, Product and Channels Audit
About this role
The Lead, Channels & Audit Analytics will support the Chief Audit Officer and Director in strengthening assurance over Moniepoint's digital channels, payments ecosystem, products, and technology-enabled business processes through risk-based auditing and data-driven analytics. The role will lead the design and execution of channel audits, continuous auditing, and audit analytics initiatives to proactively identify emerging risks, assess the effectiveness of controls, and provide actionable insights that improve business performance, operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and customer experience.
Responsibilities
Audit Leadership & Execution: Lead risk-based audits across digital channels, payment products, customer journeys, and technology-enabled business processes, ensuring alignment with the Internal Audit Plan. Perform end-to-end audits covering product governance, digital channels, payment processing, customer onboarding, transaction lifecycle, operational resilience, cybersecurity controls, and technology change management.
Audit Analytics & Continuous Monitoring: Design and execute audit analytics and continuous monitoring routines to identify control failures, emerging risks, fraud indicators, operational inefficiencies, and unusual transaction patterns. Develop data-driven audit procedures using SQL, Superset, Redash (Hera, Loki, Hela), Python, Power BI, Metabase, or similar analytical tools.
Risk Assessment & Metric Tracking: Conduct enterprise risk assessments for digital channels, products, and payment ecosystems by evaluating inherent risks, control design, control effectiveness, and residual risks. Monitor Risk Performance Metrics across products and channels.
Data Analysis & Insights: Analyse large and complex datasets to provide audit insights covering transaction integrity, customer behaviour, fraud trends, system performance, reconciliation, service availability, and regulatory compliance.
Reporting & Quality Assurance: Review audit workpapers, evidence, and reports to ensure findings are supported by sufficient evidence and comply with Internal Audit standards. Prepare clear, concise, and impactful audit reports with practical recommendations that strengthen governance, risk management, and internal controls.
Stakeholder Management & Collaboration: Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and other business stakeholders to understand system changes, new products, and emerging risks. Represent Internal Audit in cross-functional initiatives, governance forums, and stakeholder engagements where required.
Remediation & Governance: Monitor and follow up on management action plans and validate remediation activities to ensure timely closure of audit findings. Support continuous improvement of audit methodologies through automation, advanced analytics, AI-enabled auditing techniques, and dashboard reporting.
Team Development & Strategy: Coach and mentor Associates and Senior Associates on audit analytics, digital auditing techniques, and leading industry practices. Contribute to the achievement of Internal Audit strategic objectives, departmental KPIs, and quality assurance standards. Perform other duties assigned by the Chief Audit Officer and Director.
Experience & Background
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related discipline.
Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in Internal Audit, Audit Analytics, Data Analytics, Technology Audit, Risk Management, or Consulting within the financial services or fintech industry.
At least one (1) of the following professional certifications: ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIA, CISA, or CFE.
A Master's degree or professional certification in Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related analytical discipline will be an added advantage.
Proven experience developing audit analytics, continuous auditing routines, and dashboard reporting that enhance audit effectiveness and business decision-making.
Skills & Competencies
Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of digital banking ecosystems, payment systems, card schemes, point-of-sale (POS) acquiring, merchant services, mobile applications, internet banking platforms, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and digital channels.
Requirements
- ·Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and critical-thinking capabilities with the ability to translate complex data into meaningful, actionable business insights.
- ·Communication & Influence: Excellent report writing, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders across all levels of the organisation.
- ·Execution & Leadership: Strong project management capabilities, high attention to detail, ability to manage multiple concurrent audit engagements, and a commitment to coaching and mentoring junior team members.
Benefits
- ·Opportunity to work with Africa's fastest-growing fintech driving financial inclusion at scale.
- ·A collaborative, high-performing environment that invests in innovation, technology, and continuous professional development.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Moniepoint, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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