Audit Specialist at Unified Payments

Unified Payment Services Limited is Nigeria’s premier Payments & Financial Technology company that operates as a shared infrastructure for the banking community in Nigeria and Payments Service Provider within and outside Nigeria, with a vision to be the most preferred e-payment service provider in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Audit Specialist

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Functionally reports to: Head IT Audit

Job Summary

• To provide independent assurance to management on IT General Controls.
• Ensure best assurance practice in the plan and execution of IS Audit Programs.
• Ensure enterprise wide compliance of business processes and operations to internalpolicies, procedures and documentations.
• ncorporation of standard practices, principles and processes into audit programs andexecution.
• Review of risk related control issues and draft appriopriate remediation plans.
• Understand the business environment and develop relationships with audit client inproviding value added solutions and best practices implementation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Audit Review of Database Management Systems, Enterprise Network security andDevice configuration, Antivirus, Systems Patches and Log Management.
• Audit Review of Software Development Life cycle, Project ManagementImplementation and Change Management Procedures.
• Audit Review of Data Encryption Processes, Key Management Lifecycle, andOperating Systems, physical and logical security of card holder environment.
• Audit Review of Active Directory, Operating Systems, Data backup and tapemanagement.
• Assess systems and general IT controls and provide practical and Value addedremediation plans.
• Prepare audit reports that summarize the most significant control weaknesses andresulting impact to the organization.
• Participate in multiple and simultaneous riskContribute to internal departmental initiatives such as trainings, departmentaldevelopment initiatives and other internal projects as requested.
• Effectively discuss audit issues and develop business focused controlsrecommendations to strengthen control lapses and weaknesses based audit whilemaintaining departmental quality standards. Function as part of a team or workindependently when requires.

Key Performance Indicators

• Timely completion of agreed audit assignments.
• Timely submission of reports for review and submission.
• imely finalization of all departmental tasks and agreed departmental KPI.

Requirements
Education:

• University: First degree(s) in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Related field.
• OTHERS: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security
• Manager (CISM), or related professional certifications would be an added advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in IT Auditing or a similar role.
• Understanding of the key technology and general controls around enterprise
• Applications and information systems. Candidate must possess the ability to
• Communicate effectively audit issues and remediation plans.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Systems and General IT Controls.
• Analytical skills to access Operational and Compliance Requirements of ApplicationSystems and infrastructure.
• Strong Data Analysis and experience with Computer Assisted Auditing Techniques.

Skill/Competencies:

• Ability to multi task and manage competing priorities.
• Deductive reasoning abilities and eye for details.
• Interpersonal and Communication skills.

Application Closing Date
27th February, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should sent their CV to: mercy.joseph@up-ng.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.