Head, Internal Control at Goldline Nigeria Limited

Reports To: Managing Director

Summary of Position

• The Head Internal Control provides leadership and direction for the Internal control unit.
• A key role is to carry out whatever is required in guaranteeing that the company maximizes its corporate objectives by effectively policing, auditing, inspecting, controlling and investigating all its business engagements and producing actionable management reports.

Accountabilities

• Custodianship and responsibility for the full and optimal utilization of the company’s ERP platform by ensuring that all software and hardware associated with the platform are handled, controlled, used, backed up and protected to the highest possible degrees at all times.
• Audit (including vouching of) all financial accounts, transactions, operations, and other business activities.
• Conduct continuous inventory counts, reconciliations, regularization, controls and reporting.
• Conduct continuous physical verifications, conditions, controls and reporting of fixed assets.
• Conduct physical verifications, authentication, validations, security custodial and reporting of all business documents.
• Investigates customers’ complaints, rules violations, poor services, administrative and operational failures, and all issues that could jeopardize the business of the company.
• Investigates frauds, errors, mistakes, and suspicious transactions either discovered in the course of normal internal control activities referred or reported to them by internal and external stakeholders and constructively resolve them.
• Follow-up on queries referred to internal controls by the Head of Human Resources or the Managing Director.
• Takes necessary actions to prevent and correct anything that could result in loss of funds, assets, customers, businesses, personnel and all other business resources.
• Continuously recommend and aid implementation of initiatives that would upscale corporate objectives (profit maximizations, customers’ loyalty, business expansions, process standardizations, etc.).
• Prepares weekly internal control reports for management.

Qualifications/Skills/Experience

• HND or B.Sc holder in Accountancy or related discipline with a professional qualification
• Must possess high level of personal integrity and an unblemished track record
• Minimum of 5 years post graduate experience.
• Very good command of spoken and written English.
• Possesses good leadership skills and a sense of ownership.
• Possesses high level Microsoft excel and general spreadsheet competence.
• Familiarity with the use of palladium ERP software
• Very analytical and possesses good mathematical skill
• Possesses the sixth sense, eagle’s eyes, sniffing nose and a good investigative acumen.
• Ability to self-start and finish tasks/assignments to a logical conclusion