Digital Assets and Digital Currency Internal Audit
Financial Services Internal Audit | Singapore| Analyst and Consultant
The role
Join a team that performs internal audits, regulatory reviews and related risk advisory work for financial institutions, payment firms and digital asset businesses. You will assess the controls around digital payment tokens, stablecoins, tokenised assets and related operations where relevant to a client. The final grade will reflect your experience and the scope you can deliver.
What you will do
- Support risk based audit planning, process walkthroughs, control design assessments, sample selection, testing and follow up of agreed actions.
- Review customer onboarding, transaction flows, wallet and custody operations, transfers, settlement, reconciliations, third party arrangements and incident handling.
- Assess governance and operational controls around wallet access, authorisation, private key management and safeguarding arrangements, working with technology or cyber specialists on technical testing where needed.
- Review controls for financial crime risks, including customer due diligence, sanctions screening, blockchain transaction monitoring and investigation or escalation processes, where these fall within the engagement scope.
- Map the client’s activities to applicable Singapore regulatory obligations and policies, including payment services and AML/CFT requirements as relevant; record evidence and limitations clearly.
- Prepare working papers, discuss factual observations with clients and help draft practical recommendations. Track relevant developments in stablecoins, tokenisation and digital asset services.
What we are looking for
- A degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, law, computer science, information systems or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Experience or demonstrable exposure in digital asset operations, a payment or fintech firm, digital asset compliance or risk, internal audit, or financial services advisory.
- Working understanding of blockchain transactions, wallets and addresses, custody models and the difference between digital payment tokens, stablecoins and tokenised financial assets.
- Ability to trace an operational process from initiation through settlement and reconciliation, assess evidence against a control objective and write clear findings.
- Awareness of financial crime, safeguarding, operational and third party risks in digital asset services, with willingness to learn the regulations applicable to each client activity.
Additional experience that would help
- Hands on experience with a digital asset exchange, custodian, payments firm, tokenisation project or blockchain analytics tool; exposure to on chain investigations or wallet and ledger reconciliations.
- Knowledge of smart contracts, DeFi, CBDCs or cross border payment models is useful for relevant assignments, but software development or smart contract code auditing is not required.
- CIA, CAMS, ICA or relevant digital asset study; experience with SQL, Python or audit analytics.