Internal Control Officer at Neveah Limited

Neveah Limited is a lading commodities trading company located in Abuja, Nigeria which deals in Base Metals, Minor Metals and Agro Commodities. Neveah Limited is a leading commodity trading company essentially dealing in the export of solid minerals and agricultural products. The company was established in 2014 with five operational offices in different states and her head office in Abuja, Nigeria. Our services are centred around sourcing the finest, solid minerals and the healthiest agricultural products from the local market and exporting them to meet the demands of our customers at international markets.

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

Brief Job Overview

• We are looking for an Internal audit/control Officer to join our team, The main role of an internal audit/ control officer is to implement 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 product specifications.
• Flagging of a breach in control procedure to the management.
• Weekly report of activities to the chief internal audit/compliance officer
• Departmental audit of operations at the branch office, including the security operatives.
• Conducting periodic stock count exercises, investigation of variances and reconciling inventory records.
• 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.

Qualifications

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

Required Competence:

• 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.

Key Deliverables as an Internal Control Officer:

• Control Environment: Ensure compliance with the policies, procedures, standards, processes, and ethical values set forth by the Firm’s Management Team.
• Risk Assessment: determines 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 the 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 the internal auditor /control officer to provide assurance that internal controls are operating effectively.

Application Closing Date
4th March, 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.