Team Lead, Compliance and Internal Control at Coronation Insurance Plc.

Coronation is a leading financial service partner that helps build enduring legacies for sustainable wealth creation in Africa. Having established a 30-year record of achievements in banking across Africa and beyond, our founders established a Pan-African platform focused on building a better financial future for Africa. Today, our businesses are entrusted with our over $1billion of clients’ assets and are recognized as Nigeria's fastest-growing investment managers. Our purpose at Coronation is to create a prosperous future for our clients and the African continent. Coronation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We enable an inclusive workplace by identity, disability, and other statuses protected by law.

Coronation Insurance Plc– an affiliated company to Coronation Group Ltd - is a leading insurance provider of a diverse range of products and services covering general and special risk businesses to individuals and corporate entities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead, Compliance and Internal Control

Location: Lagos 
Employment Type: Full-time

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of the company’s internal control system.
• Conduct audits to verify whether departments follow established procedures.
• Support the implementation of risk management and compliance processes throughout the organization.
• Identify risks within the organization and develop preventive strategies
• Make a meaningful contribution to the development of the company's overall approach to controls testing and assurance techniques
• Contribute to the development of the company's overall approach to controls testing and assurance techniques.
• Detect and eliminate fraud by ensuring compliance with relevant regulations
• Identify the range of factors that can influence the perception of risk.
• Analyze monthly financial performance to identify key drivers and the economic/business implications.
• Conduct analysis to assess business performance and to monitor risk.
• Aware of areas of high fraud risk (e.g., procurement, contracts, payments).
• Report on areas where controls could be instituted to mitigate the risk of fraud.
• Identify reporting gaps and works with the business to identify new reports to meet business needs.
• Ensure appropriate, robust action plans are in place to address the findings of governance reviews and that these are effectively monitored as part of performance management arrangements

Key Performance Indicators

• Timeliness in meeting deadlines and schedules.
• Number of internal control breaches identified
• Compliance with standards and guidelines.
• Number of control improvement initiatives
• % of issues found and recommendations made
• Time between internal control deficiency occurrence and reporting
• Number of (major) internal control breaches
• % of key controls of the overall control environment.
• Timeliness and quality of compliance and control reporting

Key Requirements
Education and Work Experience:

• BSc / BA in law, Finance, business administration or related field.
• Possession of relevant professional certifications is an added advantage( CISA, CIMA, ACCA, ACA etc)
• Eight (8) to ten (10) years experience in compliance and internal control

Skills and Competencies:

• Knowledge of regulations and associated company policies related to internal controls and governance and how these policies are applied within the organization
• Ability to documents processes, perform risk or control assessments to identify risk areas and mitigations and control design weaknesses
• Understands the methods, tools and techniques used for assurance and audit processes
• Ability to carry out control testing process by following the company testing approach, including recording results and developing conclusions based on internal guidance
• Ability to keep updated with industry, regulatory changes and professional standards in internal controls and audits
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Must be self-solution driven, proactive and have acceptable knowledge of the business environment.
• Attention to detail.
• An analytical mind able to “see” the complexities of procedures and regulations.

Application Closing Date
9th January, 2026.