Internal Control Officer (Kano) at Neveah Limited

Neveah Limited is a leading commodities trading company located in Abuja, Nigeria which deals in Base Metals, Minor Metals and Agro Commodities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Internal Control Officer

Location: Kano
Employment Type: Full-time
Department/Unit: Internal Audit
Industry: Commodity trading (Exports)
Directly Reports to: Head of Internal Audit/Compliance
Internal Interactions: General staff
External Interactions: Vendors, Regulatory Bodies, External Inspectors/Consultant.

Job Summary

• We are looking for an Internal audit/control Officer to join our team, The main role of internal audit/ control officer is toimplement the firm’s internal control system.
• To achieve this, you will administer training to ensure that employees have an intricate understanding of all internal control guidelines and standards.
• You will also conduct regular audits to verify whether departments follow the established procedures.

Responsibilities
The ideal Candidate will (but not limited to):

• Physical verification of goods supplied by vendors.
• Ensure that all documents relating to procurement (LPO, GRN, INVOICE, GDN) match up with each other.
• Close liaison with quality control to establish products specification.
• Flagging of breach in control procedure to the management.
• Weekly report of activities to the chief internal audit/compliance officer
• Departmental audit of operation at the branch office, including the security operatives.
• Conducting periodic stock count exercise, investigation of variances and reconciling inventory record.
• Identification of control gaps, and providing necessary recommendations
• Conducting pre and post audit of all expenditure
• Periodic review of vendors creation and ensuring suppliers accounts are accurately updated.
• Conduct market surveys on an irregular basis.
• Safeguarding all assets at the branch office
• Close monitoring of the operating activities of the fleet unit of the company.
• Ensuring that all stakeholders at the branch office comply with necessary statutory regulations.
• Other duties as may be assigned.

Key Deliverables as an Internal Control Officer

• Control Environment: Ensure compliance of the policies, procedures, standards, processes, and ethical values set forth by the Firm’s Management Team.
• Risk Assessment: determine the impact and likelihood of those risks in the firm occurring and influences what types of controls should be implemented to reach an acceptable level of residual risk.
• Control Activities: Ability to assign system access based on user’s established role and reviewed on a periodic basis by the individual’s manager.
• Information and Communication: Internal controls are only effective if employees are aware of them, know how and when to perform a control, and understand what to do if an issue is identified. Information and communication ensure relevant information is shared throughout the organization and with external stakeholders in an effective and timely manner.
• Monitoring: Monitoring involves the ongoing assessment of the design and effectiveness of internal controls. Monitoring activities are performed by internal auditor /control officer to provide assurance that internal controls are operating effectively.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Minimum of 5 years proven working experience as Internal Control Officer
• Professional certification - ICAN is required.
• Advanced computer skills on MS Office, accounting software and databases

Required Competencies:

• Technical Accounting Skills.
• Mastery of Accounting Principles
• Solid knowledge of relevant regulatory standards
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent data collection and analysis skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to manipulate large amounts of data and to compile detailed reports
• Proven knowledge of auditing standards and procedures, laws, rules and regulations
• High attention to detail and excellent analytical skills
• Sound independent judgement.
• Multi-tasking skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks.

Application Closing Date
13th February, 2025.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.