Vacancies: Group Head, Senior Information Technology Auditor, Lead Auditors
A foremost and Leading Insurance Company is urgently seeking to recruit qualified candidates to fill the following positions:
Position: Group Head (Enterprise Risk Management)
Job Responsibilities
- Planning, designing and implementing an effective risk management framework for the Group.
- Risk assessment, including the quantification of risk indices by department and by subsidiary, in terms of impact and likelihood.
- Continually monitoring the groups actual risk profile against the group’s risk appetite, and which appetite has been approved by the board.
- Implementing risk reporting platforms utilizing effective and appropriate media an methodologies.
- Implementing effective risk management committees at all levels across the group to ensure that risk management is at the forefront of our businesses processes.
- Ensuring that all high level risks are suitably identified, amelioration actions are effective and that reporting of such high level risks to the board risk management committee is complete and comprehensive.
- Ensuring that the group’s corporate governance framework is effective and is always in-step with international developments and best practice.
- Ensuring that the internal audit function is a critical component of our risk management efforts and that all audit work is both effective and is fully risk based. Contributing to process mapping in order to understand business processes and their linkage to areas of potential risk;
- Ensuring that regulatory compliance issues have been properly and completely identified and that group compliance is robust and always pro-active.
Job Specifications
- Must have a degree in any of the following; Economics, Insurance, Actuarial Science, Accounting, Finance or any related field as well as Master degree in Risk Management, Economics or Finance.
- Must be a professional member of the Institute of Risk Management of London or other relevant risk management professional bodies.
- Must have at (east 12 years cumulative work experience in financial services sector preferably insurance subsector, four (4) of which must be in a management role.
- Must possess good knowledge of business strategy as well as the ability to exercise judgment, initiative and discretional all times.
- Previous working experience in an insurance industry is essential but not mandatory, but candidates must have a good knowledge of accounting, information Technology, the business and the industry.
Position: Senior Information Technology Auditor
Job Responsibilities
- Ability to independently design and develop risk based IT audit programmes and ensure that audits are prepared in accordance with professional audit standards.
- Scopes the company’s IT environment and come up with the audit universe.
- Undertakes review of general and application controls.
- Tests those controls to verify that they are both present and effective and evaluate the reliability and integrity of information as it relates to the computer based operations.
- Ensure proper management of audit working papers.
Job Specifications
- Should possess minimum of B.Sc Accounting or Computer Science.
- Three years post CISA hands on experience.
- Ability to audit through the computer using ACL/IDEA,
- Should be able to work under time and pressure constraints
- Should possess good communication, investigation and interpersonal skills.
Position: Lead Auditors
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintains effective oversight functions on engagement activities and team members for timely result
- Draws up comprehensive risk based audit programme using the company approved operation manuals and the applicable standards.
- Draws up comprehensive engagement activities work plan
- Ensures proper management of audit working papers.
- Ensures quality and timely objective assurance reporting.
- Carries out revenue assurance audit trial.
- Evaluates the adequacy and effectiveness of risk management as it relates to assigned engagement and recommended remedial actions
- Evaluates and review the existing internal controls for adequacy and effectiveness and make recommendations
- Ensures compliance with all applicable statutory and regulatory guidelines.
- Ability to carry out investigations
Job Specifications:
- Must have a degree in any of the following; Economics. Accounting, Finance or any related field.
- Must be a professional member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria or other recognized accounting professional bodies.
- Must have at least five (5) years post professional qualification work experience in a reputable audit firm.
- Should be able to work independently and with little or no supervision.
- Must possess good oral & written communication skills.
- Should be conversant with risk based audit.
- Proficiency in the use of computer.
- Must possess good leadership skills.
- Must possess high degree of integrity.
Method of Application:
Candidates who meet the above specifications are required to forward their
detailed curriculum vitae to:
Group Head (Human Resources),
P. O. Box 1803,
Ikeja, Lagos.
Applications close on 25th September 2012.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
