Internal Audit Analyst
Execute financial crime compliance audits end-to-end, including planning, fieldwork, reporting, and remediation validation. Partner with Compliance, Engineering, and Legal to identify control gaps and drive findings to closure.
About the job
What you'll do
- Execute end-to-end financial crime compliance audits, including scoping, risk and control assessments, walkthroughs, control testing, and drafting workpapers and reports that are clear, complete, and actionable.
- Own audit logistics and stakeholder engagement in a remote environment, tracking requests, open items, and testing status while maintaining proactive communication with cross-functional partners.
- Identify control gaps during fieldwork by performing root cause analysis, evaluating exception severity based on likelihood, impact, and regulatory exposure, and escalating where additional stakeholder outreach is required.
- Develop risk-based recommendations in collaboration with stakeholders, document management responses and action plans, and validate remediation of prior audit findings through to closure.
- Maintain current knowledge of anti-money laundering and sanctions regulations across all jurisdictions where Coinbase operates, applying regulatory developments to audit scope and testing.
Required Skills and Experience
- 3+ years of experience in audit, compliance testing, risk management, or related control-focused roles within financial services.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate control exceptions and classify findings by severity based on likelihood, impact, regulatory exposure, and prevalence.
- Proven ability to translate identified exceptions into clear, proportionate conclusions and recommendations that reflect the severity of risk presented.
- Familiarity with data analysis techniques (SQL preferred) to perform testing across large datasets.
- Proven ability to independently manage multiple audit workstreams and stakeholder communication in a fully remote, asynchronous environment.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
Skills
SQL, Audit, Compliance Testing, Risk Management, Financial Services, Root Cause Analysis, Data Analysis
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