Internal Control Officer (Audit) at Brands Optimal Limited

Job Summary

• The Internal Control & Field Assurance Officer will serve as the agency’s primary line of defense against fraud, budget inflation, and campaign operational failures.
• You will enforce strict compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) during agency campaigns and identify points of financial leakage across vendor management and project execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Forensic Auditing: Investigate budget overruns, vendor invoices, and project float retirement discrepancies.
• Live Spot Checks: Conduct unannounced field visits to activation sites to verify promoter compliance and asset deployment.
• Process Risk Mapping: Evaluate standard workflows across all departments to patch internal control vulnerabilities.
• Post-Activation Reconciliation: Audit and reconcile post-event project retirements, ensuring all receipts, field logs, and vendor invoices are genuine and accurate.
• Asset Tracking: Track the movement and storage of brand assets, rigs, electronics, and point-of-sale materials (POSMs) in the warehouse.
• Vendor Price Vetting: Periodically audit procurement processes and benchmark vendor quotes against market prices for setups, fabrications, printings, and merchandise.
• Corrective Action Planning: Work with heads of departments to correct audit exceptions and build stronger financial guardrails.
• Vendor Price Vetting: Periodically audit procurement processes and benchmark vendor quotes against market prices for setups, fabrications, printings, and merchandise.
• Exception Reporting: Maintain a weekly audit exception tracker and report all control breaches, financial errors, or suspicious activities directly to Management

Requirements & Qualifications

• Education: B.Sc. / HND in Accounting, Finance, or a related business discipline.
• Experience: 3 - 4 years of proven experience in Internal Control, Internal Audit, or Compliance (experience in an agency, media firm, or FMCG environment is highly valued).
• Professional Stage: ACA / ACCA qualified, or currently in the final professional stages.
• Technical Skills: High proficiency in Microsoft Excel (formulas, pivot tables) and accounting software/ERP systems.