Senior Analyst Continuous Monitoring (GIA)

First Abu Dhabi Bank

Key Responsibilities

• Design, execute, and maintain continuous monitoring strategies aligned with the bank s risk profile and audit plan.
• Use CAATs, automation solutions, and analytics tools to expand audit coverage and identify risk patterns.
• Build dashboards and real-time monitoring alerts to track KRIs, control performance, and transactional anomalies.
• Analyze structured and unstructured data such as system logs, incidents, workflows, risk events, and configuration files to identify vulnerabilities or control breakdowns.
• Perform automated, ongoing control testing across credit risk, AML/CFT, cybersecurity, treasury, and operational domains.
• Provide insights for real-time governance, early issue detection, and recalibration of the annual audit plan.

Audit Support & Risk Assessment

• Maintain and update the Audit Universe for IB, WB, and Credit portfolios across all FAB jurisdictions.
• Perform risk assessments for processes and business units, enabling dynamic prioritization of audit focus areas.
• Engage business units in periodic self-assessments to strengthen risk ownership and internal control culture.
• Develop, update, and maintain automated audit programs within FAB s central audit management system.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of audit processes based on industry practices and regulatory expectations.

Operations, Governance & Compliance

• Ensure monitoring activities comply with GIA policies, practice notes, and professional audit standards.
• Track financial performance of audit activities to ensure adherence to budgets and report variances as required.
• Support audit readiness, follow-ups, issue validation, and governance reporting.
• Conduct investigations, special reviews, or deep-dive assessments assigned by senior audit leadership.

Relationship Management

• Act as an Audit Business Partner for IB, WB, and Credit units, maintaining strong working relationships.
• Meet regularly with line managers to align on emerging risks, gaps, and control effectiveness.
• Provide advisory support on governance, risk management, and internal control enhancements.
• Ensure continuous follow-up of audit findings until full remediation is achieved.

People Development

• Coach junior analysts, provide on-the-job training, and support knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Promote FAB s values, ethics, and a proactive assurance mindset within the audit team.

Reporting

• Prepare accurate and timely reports, insights, dashboards, and analytics for management and audit leadership.
• Provide data-driven summaries for executive and Board-level discussions.