Regional Control Analytics and Monitoring Officer at Ecobank Nigeria

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), a public limited liability company, was established as a bank holding company in 1985 under a private sector initiative spearheaded by the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce and Industry with the support of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Regional Control Analytics and Monitoring Officer

Job Identification: 1273
Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Job type: Full time

Key Responsibilities 
Business and Financial performance: 

• Ensure Operational loss and fraud loss reduction target is met 
• Ensure all budgeted items are not exceeded

Customer Excellence: 

• Timely submission and accuracy of governance reports / documentation.
• Swift development of ACL routines requested by various department to monitor identified objectives.
• Data mining and exception monitoring automation requests concluded successfully

People management:

• Actively collaborate with colleagues across regions to support control analytics and monitoring tasks.
• Share relevant data, insights, and tools to enhance team efficiency and consistency.
• Risk & Control Self-Assessment - Effective Governance and Processes for Operational Risk Management and RCSA. 
• Maintain respectful and professional communication with team members and internal stakeholders
• Provide constructive input during team discussions and feedback sessions.

Process, control and operational performance:

• Control testing and monitoring - Ensure automation of business exception monitoring controls using analytical tools (e.g. ACL software).
• Risk Identification - Ensure review of transactions and records in critical business application to provide assurance of consistency, accuracy and completeness in line with the bank’s operations manuals, product papers, policies and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure review of sensitive attributes of configuration records in the bank’s applications to provide assurance of appropriate change control.
• Issue detection - Optimized Detection rate 
• Control Design and Implementation - Ensure review of sensitive attributes of configuration records in the bank’s applications to provide assurance of appropriate change control.
• Compliance and Regulatory Reporting
• Process Improvement
• Issue Remediation - On-Time Remediation (OTR) of risk issues relating to Internal Control from all sources.
• Ensure prompt rendition of weekly/Monthly IS Control activity report.

Strategic initiatives:

• Building Risk Culture - Number of Risk Culture initiatives implemented / created. 
• Provide fraud/control intelligence (thoughts, ideas, insights, initiatives) that will guide and ensure continuous improvement of the analytics functions.

Job Profile
Experience & Qualifications:

• A good University Degree with a minimum of 2:2 or HND with a minimum of upper credit in any discipline/and P.GD
• Possession of an advanced degree or Professional certificate will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 6 years working experience in Internal Control, Audit, Ops Risk Management, Technology Operations, in a commercial bank or within the financial industry and/or audit firm, commercial/retail banking experience, some of which must have been spent performing a similar role. An exceptional candidate with a solid track record but fewer years of experience will be considered.

Skills, Capabilities & Personal attributes:

• Analytical and Investigation Skills.
• Auditing and Accounting Skills.
• Policy and Regulation interpretation and implementation.       
• Oral and written Communication Skills                                     
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Power point, Intranet Mailing facility 
• Strong skills in the coding on data extraction and analysis tools.
• Strong knowledge of banking operations, audit, products & customer segmentation.
• Extensive working knowledge of the core banking application of the bank.
• Extensive working knowledge of the major database management systems used in the bank.
• Strong Knowledge of Risk assessment and risk remediation.
• Attention to details.
• Positive “can do” attitude.
• Goal driven and result oriented.
• Self-motivated

Application Closing Date
27th March, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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