Job at The Place for an Internal Audit Manager
The Place - We are a fast growing, world class, and dynamic,
multi-billion Nigerian conglomerates, established and managed by a team
of professionals with decades of management consulting and
accounting
experience/ training from Arthur Andersen (now KPMG in Nigeria). We are
presently into restaurants, hotel, and nightclubbing. We are opening
new outlets in Lagos and looking for high-flying individual who shares
the values of hard work, commitment and integrity and places high
premium on personal development and career growth.
The Place is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Internal Audit Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- A very smart accountant is needed to assist in reviewing and
constantly improving our overall operations, from a financial
perspective.
Requirements
- The preferred candidate should have at least 10 years of
external and internal audit experience preferably in one of the top
accounting firms.
- This will include but not limited to: pre- and post- payment
audit in all areas: material procurement, facilities management
expenditures, project/ construction expenditures, etc; and revenue
assurance. He/she will also be responsible for constantly improving our
internal controls in all areas of the business.
- He/she must have unwavering integrity, strong sense/ skepticism
for identifying control weaknesses and fraud, and firmness to always
deal with fraud/ sharp practices in the company.
- He/she must be comfortable with accounting and internal
controls. He/she should have specialized in related industries i.e.
restaurant, manufacturing, trading and/ or retailing industries. He/she
needs to be computer literate and be comfortable with computerized
accounting software.
- The candidate will be responsible for developing and supervising
implementation of audit strategies/ programmes for preventing and
detecting fraud/ wastages.
The candidate will assist in championing the company’s aggressive cost reduction drive, which will entail:
- Looking for ways of sourcing key materials cheaper
- He will conduct thorough review of financial data, compare
finances across similar locations/ businesses and identify anomalies,
wastage, cost reduction opportunities and overall business improvement
opportunities.
- Reducing/ eliminating wastage/ thefts in all areas of the business: bar/club, storage, food processing etc
- The candidate will also lead all efforts on safeguarding the
company’s revenue: i.e. preventing/ avoiding revenue thefts and
inadvertent revenue losses.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Note: Candidates who do not meet the above criteria need not apply.