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Internal Control Manager
About this role
Buuch Energy is recruiting an Internal Control Manager in Lagos. The role focuses on strengthening the internal control environment, safeguarding assets, improving efficiency and ensuring compliance with policies and regulatory requirements. The successful candidate will design and monitor internal controls across financial and operational activities, identify weaknesses, investigate irregularities and provide management with actionable insights to mitigate risk. The position involves independent oversight of business risks, fraud prevention, monitoring compliance and driving timely resolution of control deficiencies. The role requires designing and continuously improving the internal control framework to ensure proper authorisation, recording, documentation and alignment with policies.
What you would do
- Conduct periodic assessments of key controls to evaluate design and operating effectiveness
- Review policies, SOPs, approval limits and authorities to identify gaps and improvements
- Establish control ownership, accountability structures and escalation protocols
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive internal control framework aligned with operations and risk
- Review bank reconciliations, cash management, inventory, vendor payments and related controls
- Ensure transactions comply with budgets, policies, authorisation limits and documentation
- Assess segregation of duties and access controls within systems
- Identify unusual or fraudulent activities and improve financial records and reporting with Finance
- Monitor revenue recognition, invoicing, collections and other material financial processes
- Coordinate with internal and external parties on audits and control improvements
What they are asking for
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics or related field
- 6–8 years of experience in internal control, internal audit, risk management or financial control, with at least 2–3 years in a supervisory role
- Experience with ERP systems, accounting software and data-analysis tools
- Understanding of financial processes, procurement controls, inventory management and fraud indicators
- Experience in energy/oil and gas or asset-intensive, transaction-driven industries is desirable
- Professional qualification such as ICAN, ACCA, CIMA, CIA or CISA is an advantage
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and ability to challenge processes
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