Internal Control Analyst at Avon HMO

Role Summary

• The Internal Control Analyst shall be responsible for evaluating, monitoring, and improving our organisation’s internal control systems to ensure effectiveness, compliance, and risk mitigation.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Support in testing internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) to assess design adequacy and operating effectiveness.
• Perform walkthroughs of key business processes, including documenting process flows, risks, and control activities.
• Execute control testing procedures, including inquiry, observation, inspection, and re-performance.
• Support internal control reviews across finance, operations, and compliance processes.
• Identify control gaps, deficiencies, and improvement opportunities, and document findings clearly and accurately.
• Prepare working papers and testing documentation in line with internal audit standards and methodologies.
• Support remediation tracking by following up on management action plans for identified control weaknesses.
• Conduct periodic risk assessments and contribute to the development of internal control improvement initiatives.
• Liaise with process owners to obtain required information and clarify control activities.
• Conduct routine internal control and spot check reviews across the business, identifying control gaps, risks, and process weaknesses, and recommend improvement actions.
• Support the internal and external auditors during ICFR reviews and external audits, ensuring the timely provision of internal control documentation and clarifications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Professional certification, such as ACA and ACCA, is an advantage.
• 4-6 years’ experience in an audit firm (external audit) with direct exposure to control testing and performing internal control reviews.
• Practical experience in testing controls over financial reporting and evaluating internal control environments.
• Experience working with audit work papers, testing templates, and documentation standards.