Internal Auditor at Tantalizers Plc

Tantalizers Plc is a fast food company in Nigeria with a network of quick-service restaurants and an outdoor catering businesses. The company produces a wide variety of quality products to eat in restaurants or for take-aways. This includes oven-baked pastries such as meat pies, chicken pies, Tanta rolls and beef rolls. Tantalizers Africana produces food with a rich indigenous culinary culture including African soups such as ogbono, egusi, efori-iro and edikaing-kong. Other dishes produced at Tantalizers Africana include porridge yam, pottage beans, ofada rice, plantain, stock fish, cowleg and moin-moin.

Tantalizers Breakfast offers special breakfast deals ready as early as 7h30. Tantalizers Ice-cream is a range of mouth-watering soft-scoop ice-creams and hard ice-lollies. Tantalizers Bread is marketed under the Sunshine Bread brand. Tantalizers Cakes include a selection of cakes for celebrations which are customised on customer’s instructions. The company also produces an excellent choice of Chinese meals. Its catering division provides event catering services for private and corporate events as well as catering for industrial sites.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Internal Auditor

Location: Festac Town, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The Internal Auditor contributes to and leads project reviews of financial, operational and compliance risks and control across business units from planning to final report issuance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the teams responsible for performing financial, operational, and compliance reviews across various business units and hotels.
• Execution of assigned projects on the department’s risk-based internal audit plan.
• Participate in detail testing of key financial controls.
• Conduct independent and objective assessments of internal controls, financial results, corporate processes, business operational and compliance requirements.
• Partner with management to develop corrective action plans in response to all internal audit observations and subsequent follow-ups to ensure closure.
• Help define departmental methodologies and deliverables in accordance with professional standards.
• Supervise and work with the audit team, including internal audit team members, guest auditors, and co-source service providers.
• Educate and advise management and process owners on accounting and internal control requirements.
• Interact regularly with process owners and senior management.
• Prepare draft audit programs, request listings, testing strategies, and other pre-audit planning activities aimed at ensuring an efficient and effective audit.
• Schedule and conduct meetings with management to describe audit objectives, coverage areas, timing, and protocols for concerns, changes and escalations.
• Coordinate travel plans and logistics for scheduled audits.
• Coordinate quarterly follow-up meetings and document action plan statuses based on discussion with respective management action plan owners.
• Build relationships with regional leadership to identify and mitigate property and corporate-level risks.
• Execute various aspects of assigned internal audit projects (planning, fieldwork, testing, work paper preparation, draft reporting, etc.).
• Plan and execute testing related to internal controls over financial reporting and hotel audits.
• Ensure timely project execution and project and work paper closure.
• Opportunities may exist to lead individual audit projects (based on level of experience).
• Execute internal audit projects, internal controls testing, and preparing work papers and reports in accordance with department and Institute of Internal Auditor (IIA) standards.
• Internal audits of the business activities, corporate, shared services, and other business areas.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess an HND / B.Sc qualification with 5 - 15 years work experience.

Application Closing Date
15th June, 2023.