Head - Internal Control at A Multinational Company

A multinational company in Nigeria which traverses the whole of the maritime sector and offering its services’ to a global network of clientele is looking for vibrant, energetic and intelligent individuals to position:

Job Title: Head - Internal Control

Job Description

• The Head, Internal Control would provide independent control and audit services for all operations in order to ensure adherence to defined operating procedures and prevent financial and other losses due to control lapses.
• The candidate will report directly to the Group Managing Director

Job Responsibilities

• Contributes to the formulation of Audit policies and procedures in accordance with generally accepted audit principles and standards
• Conducts regular reviews of operational and accounting systems and practices to identify weaknesses and make suitable recommendations for improvement.
• Ensures reliability and sufficiency of the financial and management information generated by and furnished for the use of the Company
• Undertakes special assignments and ad-hoc activities as may be required by the Managing Director.
• Conducts pre-audit of transactions in order to ensure the authenticity of these transactions and their compliance with established procedures
• Supervises and ensures that post audit action plans are implemented and adhered to by relevant personnel.
• Conducts special investigations based on available information to resolve procedure and financial breaches in internal systems.
• Evaluates the state of internal control arrangements in the company; and makes recommendations to assure management of their continued adequacy, and appropriateness.
• Evaluates reviews and improves the internal control and accounting systems, including all computer based controls and security procedures to determine that they are properly designed, functioning and regularly updated.
• Creates and maintains strong internal control awareness within the Company through short- courses, seminars, participation in idea generation and publishing of relevant articles in the Company.
• Establishes and maintains positive working relationship between audit department and other departments within the Company
• Maintains current contracts with and interaction with External Auditors, Tax Authorities and other financial Consultants of the company.

Qualification and Experience

• Accounting graduate with minimum of 10 years cumulative experience in audit or a similar job function, 4 of which must have been in a managerial role, with membership of ACCA/ICAN.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, good organizational and analytical skills, and project management experience.
• Ability to perform risk assessment to identify audit areas and recommend plans
• Excellent experiences in working with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Knowledge of power point is a plus
• Ability to understand and solve problems

Remuneration
In line with the existing rates in the industry

Application Closing Date
28th December, 2012

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should apply with copies of your CV and relevant credentials quoting the position applied and send to: Headinternalaudit@yahoo.com