Audit and Assurance Manager at Phase3 Telecom Limited

Phase3 Telecom is West Africa’s largest independent fibre optic infrastructure and telecommunications services provider. With coverage of 6000km and counting, the company is licensed to run its network on Nigeria’s power infrastructure with expansion into the ECOWAS region using its unique Right of Way (RoW).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Audit and Assurance Manager

Location: Abuja
Job type: Full time

Job Responsibilities / Job description
Financial Audits:

• Conduct periodic audit of the company’s financial statements, system and ledgers to determine whether they are accurate, identifying any errors or anomalies, and recommending corrections through Head, IA&RA to relevant stakeholders.
• Conduct reviews as basis of assurance report on the alignment of the company’s financial practices and statements to professional regulations, accounting standards and or ethics
• Analyse quarterly management reports and submit inputs being fall outs of the analysis to the Quarterly Internal Audit report to the Finance and Audit Committee of the Board.
• Perform special audits of specific areas within the organization’ financial architecture for re-assurance purposes. These areas will include accounts payable, invoicing, receivables aging and recovery, etc. including involvement in LMM.
• Monitor the company’s financial performance for proactive risk identification and mitigation
• Provide updates to HIA about financial audit findings and status on weekly basis or as required.

Process Audits:

• Conduct periodic reviews of the company’s processes in practice for assurance and recommendation as necessary in compliance with best practices and current realities within the business and the industry.
• Prepare and update existing process flowchart as approved by the Head, IA&RA based on overall board/management’s approval in line with the review clause of the company’s SOP.
• Carryout reviews of inter and intra departmental processes for early identification of risk areas and required support for hitch free operations in collaboration with unit/departmental heads carrying the Head, IA&RA along.
• Work with the Internal Control Manager to prepare and submit weekly reports of the internal audit department’s activities to Management.

Revenue Assurance:

• Collect and process large datasets from relevant sources within the business on service quality, receivables, etc and submit daily and periodic reports, snap charts and recommendations to the Head IA&RA and Executive Chairman
• Create and keep up databases, statistical analysis, data visualisations and data pipelines that are required for business analysis and decision making.
• Carry out and develop special audit reports on revenue leakages and risk management with submission of observations, conclusions and recommendations to Head, IA&RA for review and further actions necessary.
• Perform such other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the Head, IA&RA or the Executive Management.

Educational Qualification

• First Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Risk Management
• ACCA/ICAN with not less than 3 years post qualification is essential
• Certifications in data analytics, process management and risk management will be an added advantage.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of two (2) years’ audit experience (Internal or external audit)
• Strong background and experience with audit methodologies and techniques
• Prior success conducting an external or internal audit
• Proficiency in the use of data analytics tools, flowcharts, accounting systems like Microsoft Dynamics

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their portfolio and CV to: recruitment@phase3telecom.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.