Internal Audit Manager at MFS Africa

MFS Africa is the leading digital payments platform in Africa, enabling low-cost payments across the continent. The company works in close partnership with mobile network operators and financial institutions to bring simple and relevant payment services to African consumers and businesses. MFS Africa connects over 320 million mobile money users across Africa through its platform, which enables cross-border payment for mobile money networks, banks, money transfer operators, and large corporates.

As a fintech company, we strive towards elegance and simplicity in everything we do. Our mission is to make borders matter less, and our values are to simplify, care, and be revolutionary. We pride ourselves on world-class operations and a distributed team. Our offices include Abidjan, Accra, Johannesburg, Kampala, Lagos, London, Nairobi, and Port-Louis, and many employees work remotely from locations where we do not have offices. We are regulated by the FSC in Mauritius, BoG in Ghana, BoT in Tanzania, and FCA in the UK.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Internal Audit Manager

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type: Permanent
Department: Internal Audit

The Role

• We seek a dynamic and motivated Internal Audit Manager to join the Internal audit department.
• The Audit manager will assist the Head of Internal Audit in providing reliable, value added and independent assurance to the Board, Shareholders and other relevant Stakeholders (e.g. external auditors, regulators, etc.) over the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control environment, in mitigating current and evolving risks across the business.
• The Audit Manager will be responsible for the management of audit engagements at the planning, execution, and reporting stages.
• This position is based in  Lagos, Nigeria and reports to the Head of Internal Audit.

 Duties and Responsibilities

• Application of the internal audit framework and methodology.
• Application of the internal audit charter.
• Performance of business wide (universe) inherent risk and control risk assessments.
• Planning of internal audit assignments as per the risk assessment
• Planning of management requested and other ad hoc internal audit assignments
• Walkthroughs.
• Key risk identification.
• Key control identification.
• Key control adequacy assessments.
• Definition of testing strategies.
• Population analysis and sample selections.
• Conducting fieldwork and control effectiveness testing.
• Data analytics.
• Consolidation of findings and agreed action plans (recommendations); 
• Creation of internal audit reports.
• Obtaining management comments and agreeing internal audit reports with management.
• Finalisation of audit files in line with internal audit best practice and methodology requirements.
• Building relationships with Management and Executives.
• Conducting follow up activities across the business.

Qualifications
You will be a good fit if you have:

• Internal Audit experience in Financial Services required,
• Thorough understanding of internal control and related internal audit methodologies and techniques.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide audience including management
• Knowledge of Data Analytics testing would be advantageous
• Must have a professional manner that will reflect positively on Internal Audit
• Ability to effectively deal with possible conflicting professional opinions.
• A self-starter who can work with minimal supervision.
• Proactive and takes initiative.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong values and ethics and ability to maintain professional independence and objectivity and act based on personal professional conviction and confidence.
• Chartered accountant with Big 4 articles or CIA.

Why Work For Us

• We are the cutting edge of fintech in Africa
• Ranked by Fast Company as Second Most Innovative Company in Africa.
• Attractive package including flexible benefits and competitive remuneration.
• Diverse, inclusive, gender-balanced company culture representing >28 nationalities and speaking >20 languages.
• Massive growth potential.
• We operate a flexible dispersed working environment with flexible leave policy.
• We solve relevant problems for Africa and the world to create access for the millions of users who also believe in what we do.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.