JOB TITLE: Internal Control Officer
JOB LOCATION: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Category: Risk Management
JOB DETAILS:
- The Internal Control Officer is responsible for the implementation of internal control reviews and procedures regarding the organization’s process/accounting structures and working in partnership with all stakeholders to ensure that potential risks and controls are adequately identified, measured appropriately and recommendations implemented.
Responsibilities
- Perform appropriate call-over of transactions consummated to ascertain validity, accuracy, and completeness of transaction processed.
- Periodic review of pricing and pricing templates for accuracy
- Perform periodic stock count and validation checks on the company’s inventory system/warehoused items to promote control visibility and inculcate sense of control awareness.
- Conduct periodic evaluation of the effectiveness of the internal control system to ensure the integrity of the system, improve them and propose value-added recommendations.
- Collaborate with business and process owners to implement and monitor remediation efforts that result from internal control assessments, ensuring the effective implementation of corrective action.
- Deliver adequate and timely action plans and monitor progress to address and resolve identified control deficiencies.
- Develop, execute, and monitor adequate internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) in line with best accounting practices and identifying appropriate risk and mitigation strategies.
- Actively participate in the system change management activities within the firm including reviewing and assessing user acceptance testing on system enhancements/change deployment.
- Involve in the optimization/upgrade of existing systems and business solutions and ensure that controls that meet business requirements are embedded at all ends.
- Ensure projects are executed in line with approved mandates and service level agreements
- Work with stakeholders to ensure that controls are fully embedded in the design of processes and systems.
- Innovate control automation techniques to minimize compliance cost for various processes and procedures within the organization.
- Supporting Operational risk desk in providing Loss Data around transaction and process data and setting of remediation technique to improve general control environment.
- Maintain a culture within ARM Pensions that emphasizes and demonstrates the importance of internal control to all staff and inculcate a sense of control awareness.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or any other finance discipline
- Professional qualifications such as ACA, ACCA or any other relevant professional programmes would be an added advantage.
- 3 – 5 years of relevant experience (post qualification) in financial service industry, experience in a Pension or Investment Management Company would be an added advantage
- Good knowledge of the operations of a Pension or Investment Management environment.
- Commendable knowledge of pension regulations and the regulatory structure.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Detail oriented and ability to work and interpret figures and other financial information
- Ability to communicate and manage risk and control issues.
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Tools
- Good written and oral communication and presentation skills
- Ability to address issues and effect change.
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Deadline: May 10, 2022
Job Features
Job Category | Analyst/ Quality Control |