Internal Control Officer (Audit) at Brands Optimal Limited

Brands Optimal Limited is one of Africa’s leading experiential marketing agencies, which optimizes value for clients through the use of strategic, reliable, and measurable methods in consumer engagement, loyalty seeding, and sales generation.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Internal Control Officer (Audit)

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Experiential Marketing

Job Summary

• The Internal Control & Field Assurance Officer will serve as the agency’s primary line of defense against fraud, budget inflation, and campaign operational failures.
• You will enforce strict compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) during agency campaigns and identify financial leakage points across vendor management and project execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Forensic Auditing: Investigate budget overruns, vendor invoices, and project float retirement discrepancies.
• Live Spot Checks: Conduct unannounced field visits to activation sites to verify promoter compliance and asset deployment.
• Process Risk Mapping: Evaluate standard workflows across all departments to patch internal control vulnerabilities.
• Post-Activation Reconciliation: Audit and reconcile post-event project retirements, ensuring all receipts, field logs, and vendor invoices are genuine and accurate.
• Asset Tracking: Track the movement and storage of brand assets, rigs, electronics, and point-of-sale materials (POSMs) in the warehouse.
• Vendor Price Vetting: Periodically audit procurement processes and benchmark vendor quotes against market prices for setups, fabrications, printings, and merchandise.
• Corrective Action Planning: Work with heads of departments to correct audit exceptions and build stronger financial guardrails.
• Vendor Price Vetting: Periodically audit procurement processes and benchmark vendor quotes against market prices for setups, fabrications, printings, and merchandise.
• Exception Reporting: Maintain a weekly audit exception tracker and report all control breaches, financial errors, or suspicious activities directly to Management

Requirements & Qualifications

• Education: B.Sc. / HND in Accounting, Finance, or a related business discipline.
• Experience: 3 to 4 years of proven experience in Internal Control, Internal Audit, or Compliance (experience in an agency, media firm, or FMCG environment is highly valued).
• Professional Stage: ACA / ACCA qualified, or currently in the final professional stages.
• Technical Skills: High proficiency in Microsoft Excel (formulas, pivot tables) and accounting software/ERP systems.

Application Closing Date
21st August, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their Resume to: jobs@brandsoptimal.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email