Internal Control Manager at White Soul Group (Lagos and Cross River)

White Soul Group is a leading haulage and automobile sales company with over 4 locations across Nigeria. We offer first tier automobile sales and after sales, dedicated haulage and fleet management services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Internal Control Manager

Locations: Ikeja, Lagos and Cross River
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The Internal Control Manager will be responsible for ensuring a strong internal control environment through the development of policies and procedures, ensuring their implementation and monitoring compliance.
• The position will work to foster standardization and consistency across business processes and internal controls.
• The ideal candidate is a critical thinker on internal control environment.
• They are organized with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Roles and Responsibilities

• The Internal Control Manager shall be responsible for implementing, directing and overseeing the auditing and compliance programs of the organization.
• Own the design, implementation, documentation, assessment and monitoring internal control framework, including group policies and key risks in order to ensure that the group has adequate controls to prevent unintentional and intentional errors in financial reporting, processes and business operations.
• Formulate policies and procedures to improve internal controls, compliance and efficiency
• Lead the process for internal controls reviews across the group
• Deliver adequate and timely reporting on the internal control framework and control deficiencies to ensure appropriate communication, documentation, escalation to business partners, senior leadership and audit committee.
• Deliver adequate and timely action plans and monitor progress to address and resolve control deficiencies
• Work collaboratively with business and process owners to implement and monitor remediation efforts that result from internal control assessments, ensuring the effective implementation of corrective action.
• Actively seek standardization and automation, apply and implement best practices for managing internal controls and deploy innovative technology where possible to enhance and continuously improve the design and operating effectiveness of the controls, documentation, assessment and review procedures.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7+ years of experience from a similar position in a haulage and logistic company.
• Relevant professional certification (ACA, ACCA) is a plus
• Strong experience and interest for how technology and systems can support internal control effectiveness and efficiency
• Solid understanding and experience with internal control frameworks
• Strong analytical skills includes the ability to spot, assess and address risk, materiality and interdependencies and translate it into impact analysis for the financial reporting and recommendations for improvement
• Strong communication skills presenting internal control and risk matters in an understandable way across various forums and levels of the organization with the right level of detail.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including sound presentational skills.
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, and ability to work as part of a multi-cultural team.
• Adaptable to working in a fast paced, ever-changing environment
• Striving for continuous improvement and optimization
• Ability to work well independently as well as the ability to work well with stakeholders and communicate the benefits of tax initiatives.
• Flexibility in resolving issues and addressing changing priorities

Deadline: 13th July, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: careers@whitesoulgroup.org using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.