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Internal Control Officer
About this role
The Internal Control Officer role at Cedarcrest Hospitals focuses on ensuring financial controls, governance, and system integrity across hospital operations. It targets candidates who can oversee billing, inventory, procurement, payroll, and administrative processes to minimise risks. The employer is Cedarcrest Hospitals, a multi-specialty medical centre with orthopaedic roots and partnerships with international centres, operating in Lagos as part of its network. The position involves reviewing invoices, conducting stock counts, monitoring procurement, performing governance checks, and maintaining risk and control documentation. Tasks cover both financial controls and operational compliance within hospital procedures and MDCN/PCN guidelines.
What you would do
- Review and sign off on invoicing for HMOs/NHIA and corporate clients to ensure proper pre-authorization, tariff accuracy, and minimized disputes.
- Assess patient bill estimates for appropriate discount approvals.
- Conduct weekly and monthly physical stock counts across pharmacies, theatres, and stores; investigate variances.
- Review procurement processes for price and quantity compliance and value for money.
- Perform routine and surprise checks and ward rounds to verify adherence to SOPs and clinical standards.
- Ensure compliance with MDCN guidelines, PCN rules, and quality accreditation frameworks.
- Review monthly payroll records against approved staff time sheets.
- Review petty cash disbursements and expense requests for proper approval and documentation.
- Review monthly bank reconciliations and associated records.
- Review access controls and billing configurations in Afya serve and Zoho books; escalate unauthorized modifications.
What they are asking for
- Experience in internal controls, audit, accounting, or financial management within a healthcare setting preferred.
- Familiarity with hospital billing, procurement, inventory, payroll, and cash handling processes.
- Understanding of clinical governance standards and national medical council guidelines is advantageous.
- Ability to perform risk assessment, control documentation, and discrepancy investigations.
- Proficiency in using financial systems and ERP-like platforms for audit trails and reporting.
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