Internal Audit Managers at The Place

The Place - We are a fast growing, world class, and dynamic, multi-billion Nigerian conglomerates, established and managed by a team of professionals with decades of management consulting and accounting experience/ training from Arthur Andersen (now KPMG in Nigeria). We are presently into restaurants, hotel, and nightclubbing. We are opening new outlets in Lagos and looking for high-flying individual who shares the values of hard work, commitment and integrity and places high premium on personal development and career growth.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Internal Audit Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• A very smart accountant is needed to assist in reviewing and constantly improving our overall operations, from a financial perspective.

Requirements

• The preferred candidate should have at least 10 years of external and internal audit experience preferably  in one of the top accounting firms.
• He/she must be comfortable with accounting and internal controls.  He/she should have specialized in related industries i.e. restaurant, manufacturing, trading and/ or retailing industries.  He/she needs to be computer literate and be comfortable with computerized accounting software.
• The candidate will be responsible for developing and supervising implementation of audit strategies/ programmes for preventing and detecting fraud/ wastages.
• This will include but not limited to: pre- and post- payment audit in all areas: material procurement, facilities management expenditures, project/ construction expenditures, etc; and revenue assurance. He/she will also be responsible for constantly improving our internal controls in all areas of the business.
• He/she must have unwavering integrity, strong sense/ skepticism for identifying control weaknesses and fraud, and firmness to always deal with fraud/ sharp practices in the company.

The candidate will assist in championing the company’s aggressive cost reduction drive, which will entail:

• Looking for ways of sourcing key materials cheaper
• Reducing/ eliminating wastage/ thefts in all areas of the business: bar/club, storage, food processing etc
• The candidate will also lead all efforts on safeguarding the company’s revenue: i.e. preventing/ avoiding revenue thefts and inadvertent revenue losses.
• He will conduct thorough review of financial data, compare finances across similar locations/ businesses and identify anomalies, wastage, cost reduction opportunities and overall business improvement opportunities.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Candidates who do not meet the above criteria need not apply.