Internal Auditor
At a glance
Mid-level Audit & Controls role at Deloitte. Lagos · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Set the yearly audit schedule and make sure the planned reviews are carried out
- Assess school and operational risks, then put suitable controls and monitoring in place
- Review financial, compliance and operational activity, investigate reported irregularities, and flag process gaps or losses
- Check that school policies and procedures are followed, and advise senior school leaders and the Board on risk findings
- Work with external auditors and prepare regular reports on audit work and the school’s control environment
What you bring
- A first degree in accounting or a related discipline, plus a professional accounting qualification
- At least ten years in internal audit, or eight years working for an audit firm
- Knowledge of audit and risk methods, governance, accounting standards and internal controls
- Working knowledge of SAGE Evolution and Microsoft Office productivity tools
Who this fits
This role suits an experienced auditor who can assess risk, communicate findings tactfully and uphold high ethical standards. The position is onsite in Lagos.
From the employer
On behalf of our client, a co-educational full boarding secondary school that combines Nigerian and international curricula including IGCSE and WASSCE to provide students for both local and international opportunities, we are recruiting for the role of Internal Auditor.
Job Purpose
The Internal Auditor ensures the implementation of effective controls in the School’s processes, operations and system to ensure transparency and promote good governance. He/She proactively coordinates preventive detection of sharp practices and continuously seek for ways to eradicate leakages and improve the School’s internal control systems.
Core Responsibilities
- Prepare the annual internal audit work plan and ensure its execution
- Continuously review / assess the business and operational risks facing the School in order to proactively establish appropriate mitigating controls and monitoring frameworks
- Conduct periodic financial, compliance, operational and special audits and carry out investigations into reported irregularities, as required by the School
- Highlight and flag duplications, leakages, and weaknesses across the school’s business processes and systems and provide recommendations to improve the internal control systems and the quality of the school’s processes and system
- Verify that the school’s PPP (Policies, Procedures and Processes) manual is followed in all areas of the school’s operations
- Interpret and analyze reports / data to identify possible risk exposure and advise the Principal, Risk Committee, and the Board on risk exposure – internally and externally
- Collaborate with external auditors in their independent examination of the School’s financial statements
- Stay abreast of industry trends and developments to enable the development and implementation of appropriate control measures, monitoring mechanism as well as their continuous update / revision
- Prepare and submit periodic activity / management reports to the Board, on the activities of the Internal function including findings and overall assessment of the School’s control environment
- Perform any other duties that complement the internal control systems of the School.
- First degree in Accounting or any related discipline
- Professional accounting certification e.g. ICAN, ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA. (CISA will be an added advantage)
- Minimum of ten (10) years internal audit experience in a reputable organization or eight (8) years’ experience in an audit firm. Competencies and Skills
- Knowledge of Internal audit and Risk methodologies
- Knowledge of corporate governance procedures, accounting standards, GAAP, auditing guidelines
- Knowledge of Internal controls with particular emphasis on educational institutions
- Good understanding of the operations of an educational institution
- Maturity and tact, including the ability to relate effectively with various stakeholders
- Good report writing and oral communication skills
- Good knowledge of financial and IT systems controls
- Good knowledge of finance and business applications and systems
- Good appreciation and working knowledge SAGE Evolution and of Microsoft Office productivity tools
- Good decision making, problem solving and leadership skills
- High sense of responsibility, accountability and dependability
- High integrity and ethical standards
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