Internal Control Analyst at Avon Healthcare Limited

Avon Healthcare Limited is a health care company that provides extensive range of health plans to its customers. To empower people across Nigeria to live healthier, fuller lives by providing access to quality healthcare services.

We were duly registered by the regulatory authority (NHIS) to operate as a national HMO in October 2012 but commenced operations in 2013. We are a subsidiary of the Heirs Holdings Group, an investment company committed to the economic transformation of Africa. Whether you’re an Individual, a Family, an Association or Corporate Organisation, our health plans have been created to give you access to quality healthcare services whenever you need it. We also offer on-site health risk assessment, occupational health management and employee well-being services, which go a long way in maintaining a healthy and productive workforce.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Internal Control Analyst

Location: Nigeria 
Job type: Full-time

Role Summary

• The Internal Control Analyst shall be responsible for evaluating, monitoring, and improving our organisation’s internal control systems to ensure effectiveness, compliance, and risk mitigation.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Support in testing internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) to assess design adequacy and operating effectiveness.
• Perform walkthroughs of key business processes, including documenting process flows, risks, and control activities.
• Execute control testing procedures, including inquiry, observation, inspection, and re-performance.
• Support internal control reviews across finance, operations, and compliance processes.
• Identify control gaps, deficiencies, and improvement opportunities, and document findings clearly and accurately.
• Prepare working papers and testing documentation in line with internal audit standards and methodologies.
• Support remediation tracking by following up on management action plans for identified control weaknesses.
• Conduct periodic risk assessments and contribute to the development of internal control improvement initiatives.
• Liaise with process owners to obtain required information and clarify control activities.
• Conduct routine internal control and spot check reviews across the business, identifying control gaps, risks, and process weaknesses, and recommend improvement actions.
• Support the internal and external auditors during ICFR reviews and external audits, ensuring the timely provision of internal control documentation and clarifications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Professional certification, such as ACA and ACCA, is an advantage.
• 4-6 years’ experience in an audit firm (external audit) with direct exposure to control testing and performing internal control reviews.
• Practical experience in testing controls over financial reporting and evaluating internal control environments.
• Experience working with audit work papers, testing templates, and documentation standards.

Application Closing Date
10th February, 2026.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV outlining their relevant experience to: humanresources@avonhealthcare.com using “Internal Control Analyst” as the subject of the email.