Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
We are seeking an experienced Internal Auditor for 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.
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 mechanisms, 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.
Requirements
- 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.
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 of SAGE Evolution and Microsoft Office productivity tools
- Good decision making, problem solving, and leadership skills
- High sense of responsibility, accountability, and dependability
- High integrity and ethical standards
About the Company
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.