Our client is one of the top three Nigerian leading banks. Due to massive expansion, there exist different vacancies in the audit unit of the bank.
Job Location: Lagos State
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Job title Internal Auditor
Reports to Audit Manager/Lead Auditor
Job description:
Job purpose
- To ensure that the internal audit function of the Bank provides quality services that complies with internal and international auditing standards and management expectations.
- To effectively and efficiently carry out planned assignments approved by the Head of Internal Audit.
Key responsibilities
- Having strong understanding of bank operations.
- Performing/leading audits in accordance with Group Internal Audit (GIA) methodology and professional practice standards; drafting of audit reports; presenting issues to the business; and discussing practical solutions.
- Applying in-depth level of expertise in branch banking operations including: ATM/Vault management, Credit, blank forms handling, physical security, etc.
- Understanding the interconnectedness of products and support units throughout the Bank and how they impact on the area of responsibility.
- Delivering timely high quality audit reports
- Upholding the highest possible quality of services through various quality control checks and appropriate allocation of duties.
- Maintaining the use of best practices by researching and adopting new audit techniques where relevant.
- Reporting monthly and quarterly and annual audit results; issues validation;
- Participating in major Bank initiatives and proactively providing advice and assistance on change initiatives.
Key performance measures
- Meeting quarterly audit plan targets.
- Submission of monthly, quarterly and annual reports to GIA and senior management.
- Budgetary expenditure variances to be positive.
- Level of legitimate complaints from customers and team to be nil or minimum.
- Positive feedback from Head, Internal Audit
- Positive feedback from Internal Auditors.
Competencies required:
Qualifications
- Must possess a first degree.
- A professional qualification such as CIA, CISA, CIMA, ACCA, ACA, COBIT or similar is a plus.
Experience
- At least 3 years of experience in banking operations or financial services audit function.
Personal competencies:
Problem Solving
- Decide on which business areas to include in the annual plan, based on the global risk assessments and Audit Universe.
Planning
- Decide on the composition of audit teams, gravity of cases to be investigated and time to be allocated thereto.
Decision making
- Interpret audit findings and decide on suitability of recommendations made and overall rating awarded.
Application
Forward all applications to ‘[email protected]’ using ‘INTERNAL AUDITOR- BANK’ as subject of application. Application closes 13th February, 2015.