Job Description
Moniepoint is seeking a detail-oriented Product Auditor to provide independent assurance over the design, implementation, and operating effectiveness of product controls across payment, wallet, settlement, switches and other related products across the organisation
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Remote
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain a living Product Audit Universe covering all payment products, features, and integrations ranked by risk.
- Own the annual Product Audit Plan, ensuring coverage is allocated dynamically based on risk ratings, product complexity, regulatory sensitivity, and change velocity.
- Review PRDs, business rules, and transaction workflows to identify logic gaps, unmitigated risk paths, and missing exception-handling routines before products reach production/go-live.
- Analyse product path scenarios, verify Maker-Checker enforcement, and provide formal control design sign-off before any material release goes live.
- Periodically assess live payment products to confirm they continue to operate within approved design parameters.
- Detect configuration drift, identify silent divergence from original PRDs, and analyse live transaction data for emerging risk patterns.
- Trace fund flows, confirming continuous synchronisation between wallet sub-ledgers and the General Ledger.
- Assess reconciliation logic for breaks and evaluate the authorisation, documentation, and reversibility of manual settlement overrides.
Key Requirements
- Advanced SQL for independent data extraction and transaction interrogation
- Payment systems architecture : Wallets, card processing, direct debit, settlement, and reconciliation
- API and integration literacy (Basic)
- End-to-end transaction lifecycle knowledge: Authorisation, posting, clearing, settlement, and exception handling
- PRD and process flow analysis: translating product documentation into control flowcharts
- Mathematical precision: fee calculations, interest computations, and split payment structures
- Pattern recognition: detecting anomalies, outliers, and irregularities in large transaction datasets
- Risk-based audit methodology: IIA Standards and COSO framework applied to financial products.
- Control design logic and evaluation
- Root cause analysis
- Regulatory knowledge: CBN payment system regulations, PCI DSS, NDPR,Nigerian consumer protection obligations etc
