Internal Control - Team Lead at Norsworthy Farms & Agro Allied Industries Limited

Responsibilities

• Implements the Internal Audit programmes to ascertain and report on degree of compliance with company approved policies and operating procedures, laws, regulations and code of good business practices
• Drives annual plans and budgets for the unit that would support the achievement of the corporate strategy
• Develops approved internal audit and control strategies and action plans to promote a culture of transparency and accountability in Norsworthy Farms’s business operations
• Liaises with the Finance Department and Norsworthy Farms’s statutory auditors to agree scope and information requirements for the successful conduct of the annual statutory audit programmes
• Allocates various Internal Auditors to business divisions/departments for the interim and annual audits
• Reviews reports from Internal Auditors and presents consolidated reports to the Head, Internal Audit
• Reports significant risk exposures and control issues, including fraud risks, governance issues, and other matters needed or requested by the Board.
• Sets the scope of work as well as the deadlines for each internal audit exercise
• Trains and builds the capacity of the internal auditors
• Supervises and coordinates year-end inventory count and periodic fixed asset verification exercises carried out by the internal auditors
• Manages and oversees team performance through performance planning, coaching and performance appraisals.
• Supervises and coordinates year-end inventory count and periodic fixed asset verification exercises.
• Conducts follow up reviews and resolves control issues arising from internal and external audit exercises
• Implements the Internal Audit programmes to ascertain and report on degree of compliance with company approved policies and operating procedures, laws, regulations and code of good business practices
• Drives annual plans and budgets for the unit that would support the achievement of the corporate strategy
• Develops approved internal audit and control strategies and action plans to promote a culture of transparency and accountability in Norsworthy Farms’s business operations
• Liaises with the Finance Department and Norsworthy Farms’s statutory auditors to agree scope and information requirements for the successful conduct of the annual statutory audit programmes
• Allocates various Internal Auditors to business divisions/departments for the interim and annual audits
• Reviews reports from Internal Auditors and presents consolidated reports to the Head, Internal Audit
• Reports significant risk exposures and control issues, including fraud risks, governance issues, and other matters needed or requested by the Board.
• Sets the scope of work as well as the deadlines for each internal audit exercise
• Trains and builds the capacity of the internal auditors
• Supervises and coordinates year-end inventory count and periodic fixed asset verification exercises carried out by the internal auditors
• Manages and oversees team performance through performance planning, coaching and performance appraisals.
• Supervises and coordinates year-end inventory count and periodic fixed asset verification exercises.
• Implements the Internal Audit programmes to ascertain and report on degree of compliance with company approved policies and operating procedures, laws, regulations and code of good business practices
• Drives annual plans and budgets for the unit that would support the achievement of the corporate strategy
• Develops approved internal audit and control strategies and action plans to promote a culture of transparency and accountability in Norsworthy Farms’s business operations
• Liaises with the Finance Department and Norsworthy Farms’s statutory auditors to agree scope and information requirements for the successful conduct of the annual statutory audit programmes
• Allocates various Internal Auditors to business divisions/departments for the interim and annual audits
• Reviews reports from Internal Auditors and presents consolidated reports to the Head, Internal Audit
• Reports significant risk exposures and control issues, including fraud risks, governance issues, and other matters needed or requested by the Board.
• Sets the scope of work as well as the deadlines for each internal audit exercise
• Trains and builds the capacity of the internal auditors
• Supervises and coordinates year-end inventory count and periodic fixed asset verification exercises carried out by the internal auditors
• Manages and oversees team performance through performance planning, coaching and performance appraisals.
• Supervises and coordinates year-end inventory count and periodic fixed asset verification exercises.
• Implements the Internal Audit programmes to ascertain and report on degree of compliance with company approved policies and operating procedures, laws, regulations and code of good business practices
• Drives annual plans and budgets for the unit that would support the achievement of the corporate strategy
• Develops approved internal audit and control strategies and action plans to promote a culture of transparency and accountability in Norsworthy Farms’s business operations
• Liaises with the Finance Department and Norsworthy Farms’s statutory auditors to agree scope and information requirements for the successful conduct of the annual statutory audit programmes
• Allocates various Internal Auditors to business divisions/departments for the interim and annual audits
• Reviews reports from Internal Auditors and presents consolidated reports to the Head, Internal Audit
• Reports significant risk exposures and control issues, including fraud risks, governance issues, and other matters needed or requested by the Board.
• Sets the scope of work as well as the deadlines for each internal audit exercise
• Trains and builds the capacity of the internal auditors
• Supervises and coordinates year-end inventory count and periodic fixed asset verification exercises carried out by the internal auditors
• Manages and oversees team performance through performance planning, coaching and performance appraisals.
• Supervises and coordinates year-end inventory count and periodic fixed asset verification exercises.
• Conducts follow up reviews and resolves control issues arising from internal and external audit exercises.

Qualifications
Required:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree / HND in Accounting or a Finance related discipline
• Relevant professional certifications e.g. Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Association of Certified & Chartered Accountants (ACCA) and/or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) is required
• Minimum of 7 years relevant experience in auditing, preferably in an accounting firm.

Desirable:

• A relevant Master’s Degree.