Senior Internal Control & Audit Officer at Prudential Zenith Life Insurance

Prudential plc, one of the oldest and most strongly capitalized life insurance companies in the world, has acquired a majority stake in Zenith Life Assurance, giving rise to a new company, Prudential Zenith Life.

The union is set to redefine the Nigerian insurance sector, building on the existing strength of Zenith Life, which is one of the fastest growing life insurance companies in Nigeria, with gross written premium of N3.6 billion at the end of 2017.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Internal Control & Audit Officer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Key Responsibilities

• Providing technical and professional support to ensure smooth and speedy completion of audit assignments.
• Carrying out Prepayment review of all management expenses and overhead requests including monthly staff payroll.
• Participating in quarterly AML/CFT/CPF and other compliance audit.
• Conducting various IT audits and reviews with key emphasis on IT corporate governance, software application architecture and business support.
• Participate in the review of policies, procedures and ensuring their implementation and monitoring for compliance.
• Strive to ensure prompt implementation of audit recommendation by engaging in timely follow through activities with business leaders and relevant employees.
• Reviews of all statutory and regulatory returns and remittances.
• Monitoring of staff indebtedness, cash advance, retirements, and monthly bank reconciliation.
• Assisting in designing of achievable cost reduction and control strategies.
• Participate in the onboarding training of staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Economics or any other field of study.
• Professional Qualification in ACA, ACCA, CISA, CIA etc
• Post Graduate Degree an advantage.

Experience

• Experience in an Internal Control, Audit position in any area of the Financial Services sector.
• 5-7 years' experience in Internal Control, Internal Audit or Finance role.
• High attention to details.
• Proven effective written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Experience in basic accounting or insurance software applications and relevant IT audit skills.
• Demonstrate customer focus with an emphasis on building relationship with all levels of staff and management.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@prudentialzenith.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.