Job title: Group Internal Auditor Job at Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX Group)
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Job description: Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX Group) is a leading financial market infrastructure provider in Africa, connecting Nigeria, Africa and the world.We are recruiting to fill the position below:Job Position: Group Internal AuditorJob Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-timeJob Summary
- The Group Internal Auditor is a seasoned professional with strong leadership, technical expertise, and experience in overseeing Risk, Internal Control, and Audit functions.
- S/he will ensure effective Governance, Compliance, and Risk Management across the organization by providing independent assurance and actionable insights to Leadership.
- S/he will support strategic decision-making while promoting accountability and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Provide independent assessment and transparency relative to Risk Management and practices, compliance with policies and industry standards.
- Ensuring Internal Audit adopts industry best practices in Information Technology Audit across the Group’s operations.
- Ensuring all risk related matters are provided for in the annual Assurance Statement on Risk Management as part of annual Governance Statement.
- Review Internal Audit frameworks against global best practices.
- Ensure risks identified from external regulatory, audit reviews and other reports are assessed and informs the corporate risk registers as required.
- Provide support in undertaking risk assessments, analysing risk data to develop and review risk registers, as well as deliver regular progress reports to operational groups and committees.
- Ensure Audit function/operations are aligned with global best standards.
- Be responsible for development, review and ongoing delivery of prioritised Risk Management and assurance implementation plans that reflects strategic objectives of the organisation and operational needs of business units.
- Ensure Implementation of an effective control environment at all organisational levels including control activities tailored for defined processes and creating minimum requirements for all business areas.
- Analyse and recommend possible disaster preparedness solutions using established Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity planning practices.
- Ability to Identify potential Business Interruptions, develop safe-guards, and implement recovery procedures in the event of a Business Interruption.
- Advise Executive Management and Board of Directors on suggested changes to relevant frameworks and ensure such frameworks, supporting policies and procedures, are well documented and current.
- Provide all relevant statutory reports and regulatory requirements to Audit Committees, and Board of Directors on risk and control matters.
- Review and ensure presentation of quarterly Internal Audit, Risk Management, Internal Control and Business Continuity management reports to Board Committees.
Person Specification & Required Qualification(s)
- HND / Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or any related discipline or any related discipline;
- Fifteen (15) years of cognate experience with at least five (5) years of experience in senior management Audit and Risk management role in the Financial services or Capital Market industry;
- Masters degree and Professional Qualifications in CFA, ACA, FCA, FRM, CIS, CIBN or its equivalent will be an advantage;
- Extensive knowledge of Risk Management, Internal Control, Audit, Compliance, Information Security & Business Continuity;
- A visionary with exceptional foresight for conceptualising and implementing leading edge Audit strategies;
- Good understanding and knowledge of Enterprise Risk principles (market, credit and operational risk);
- Strategy formulation & Execution;
- Excellent leadership and Communication skills.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send an updated Resume to: using “NGX Recruitment – Group Internal Auditor” as the subject of the email.Note: Only shortlisted candidates would be contacted.Similar JobsHottest JobsJob SeekersEmployersTools & ResourcesConnect with usCustomer Care
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Location: Nigeria
Job date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 23:12:42 GMT