IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services
Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Specialist, Audit & Risk
Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Department: Internal Audit & Risk
Job Description
- Lead internal audit team members in planning, execution, and reporting of audit engagements in alignment with the internal audit methodology.
- Supervise work done by other team members when assigned to lead audits to ensure outputs are in line with the internal audit methodology.
- Lead preparation of work programs for assigned audits.
- Prepare audit reports to be reviewed by Senior Manager, Internal Audit.
- Monitor changes to the company’s policies, processes, and procedures, and assist in documenting and storing such data in appropriate repositories.
- Manage and maintain open audit items database and report on progress or remediation of agreed management actions on circulated internal audit reports.
- Conduct formal follow-up audits of the implementation status of agreed management action plans per the approved risk-based audit plan.
- Provide timely and comprehensive feedback to the Senior Manager, Internal Audit on implementation of assigned engagements.
- Perform regional audits, spot checks, and other special assignments as assigned.
- Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Senior Manager, Internal Audit.
- Contribute to the development of internal audit scopes.
- Support IA management by providing inputs to periodic reporting of audit activities to the Audit Committee and other stakeholders.
- Collaborate with other assurance providers to champion internal control awareness initiatives.
Qualifications
- B.Sc./ HND in Business and / or Social Science-related discipline.
- ACA, ACCA, CIA, CISA, and related professional qualifications or membership of relevant professional bodies (e.g. Institute of Internal Auditors) will be an advantage.
- +8 years’ experience in internal auditing, external auditing, compliance or any other relevant role.
- Ability to work independently, with limited required direction and guidance, and provide appropriate direction to other internal audit team members.
- Demonstrable leadership skills in selling ideas and obtaining management buy-in for constructive change.
- Demonstrable understanding and application of internal control concepts to plan, perform, manage and report evaluations of various business processes.
- Exposure to telecoms and/ or telecoms infrastructure industry.is an advantage.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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