CRISIL | Lead Analyst

Key responsibilities

• The candidate is responsible for designing, implementing, monitoring, and continuously improving the division’s internal control framework.
• The role ensures strong governance over reporting, operational processes, client deliverables, data security, and regulatory compliance.
• This role plays a critical part in safeguarding confidential client information, maintaining process integrity, ensuring service quality, and supporting both internal and external audit functions.
• Develop, implement, and maintain a robust internal control framework.
• Ensure controls are embedded across financial, operational, and compliance processes.
• Lead annual control reviews and updates.
• Monitor adherence to client SLAs and internal performance benchmarks.
• Conduct periodic risk assessments to identify risks.
• Partner with business leads to evaluate risk exposure and implement mitigation strategies.
• Maintain and update risk registers.
• Support external and internal audits, including remediation of audit findings.
• Act as primary liaison for internal auditors.
• Provide documentation, process walkthroughs, and evidence during audits.
• Track audit observations and ensure timely remediation.
• Conduct control self-assessments (CSA) across domains.
• Perform control testing, documentation, and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen controls and improve process efficiency.
• Prepare control effectiveness reports for senior management.
• Track remediation plans and ensure timely closure of control deficiencies.
• Track internal control policies and adherence to standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Partner with Finance, Risk, IT, Operations, and Compliance teams.
• Provide training and guidance on internal controls and risk awareness.
• Act as subject matter expert on internal controls.
• Process Improvement & Automation
• Implement continuous monitoring mechanisms.

Skills & attributes

• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to take ownership and execute tasks independently; being resourceful and adept at trouble shooting.
• Proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, Python etc. would be an added advantage.
• 8–12 years of experience in internal controls, audit, risk management, or financial governance.

CRISIL

CRISIL started in 1987 as India's first credit rating agency. It has since grown into an analytics company offering ratings, research, risk and policy advisory services. It is majority-owned by S&P Global.

For finance professionals, CRISIL offers credit analysis, financial research, ratings and risk analytics roles, usually suited to CA, CFA and MBA (Finance) profiles.

• Industry: Credit ratings, research and analytics
• Headquarters: Mumbai, India
• In India: Major centres in Mumbai and Pune, with offices in other cities