{"id":36432,"date":"2026-03-27T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jobsafric.com\/nigeria\/financial-control-specialist-at-ikeja-electricity-distribution-company\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:00:11","slug":"financial-control-specialist-at-ikeja-electricity-distribution-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com.ng\/nigeria\/financial-control-specialist-at-ikeja-electricity-distribution-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Control Specialist at Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"job-key-info\">\n<li><span class=\"jkey-title\">Job Type<\/span> <span class=\"jkey-info\">Full Time<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"jkey-title\">Qualification<\/span> <span class=\"jkey-info\">BA\/BSc\/HND , Professional Certificate<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"jkey-title\">Experience<\/span> <span class=\"jkey-info\">5 &#8211; 8 years<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"jkey-title\">Location<\/span> <span class=\"jkey-info\">Lagos<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"jkey-title\">Job Field<\/span> <span class=\"jkey-info\">Finance \/ Accounting \/ Audit&amp;nbsp<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<h1>\n<p>                \t\tFinancial Control Specialist at Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company<br \/>\n            \t\t<\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mag-b \" id=\"job1189693\">\n<p>            Financial Control Specialist <\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"job-details\">\n<p><strong>Key Opportunities &amp; Contributions;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Financial Strategy &amp; Planning: Shaping longterm financial goals, identifying investment opportunities (e.g., grid upgrades), and supporting major capital expenditure decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Risk Management &amp; Asset<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protection: Implementing internal controls to safeguard significant assets, managing cash flow, and ensuring robust systems against fraud and mismanagement.<\/li>\n<li>Regulatory Compliance &amp; Reporting: Acting as a key liaison with energy regulators and tax authorities, ensuring adherence to strict industry standards, and managing complex financial reporting for external bodies.<\/li>\n<li>Performance Analysis &amp; Cost Control: Deep diving into operational costs, analyzing profitability of different service areas, and finding efficiencies in large-scale operations.<\/li>\n<li>Audit &amp; Assurance: Managing internal and external audits, implementing audit recommendations, and ensuring financial data integrity. Strategic Decision Support: Providing insights to senior management on financial performance, market realities, and potential financial impacts of strategic initiatives.<\/li>\n<li>The Financial Control Specialist will strengthen the organization\u2019s financial integrity by evaluating, monitoring, and improving internal control systems within the finance function.<\/li>\n<li>The role ensures that financial operations comply with established policies, regulatory standards, and investor requirements, while also driving efficiency and mitigating risks across key finance processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your Role Accountabilities are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls around finance processes such as general accounting, treasury, fixed assets, payroll, revenue, and procurement.<\/li>\n<li>Review journal entries, payment vouchers, reconciliations, and other financial documents to confirm compliance with policies and approval limits.<\/li>\n<li>Verify that financial transactions are accurately recorded, supported by valid documentation, and in line with IFRS and company accounting policies.<\/li>\n<li>Conduct periodic reviews of bank reconciliations, cash advances, and expense retirements to ensure timely resolution of discrepancies.<\/li>\n<li>Identify financial control weaknesses and propose pragmatic recommendations to address them.<\/li>\n<li>Support the development, update, and communication of Standard Operating<\/li>\n<li>Procedures (SOPs) for finance-related activities.<\/li>\n<li>Monitor compliance with regulatory requirements from NERC, FIRS, and other relevant authorities.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare periodic internal control reports on finance activities, highlighting exceptions, risks, and recommendations.<\/li>\n<li>Track status of control remediation and report progress to management.<\/li>\n<li>Review all activities on treasury operations- bank reconciliations, FX reconciliations, investment activities, cash flow forecasts, and fund utilization reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Skills &amp; Competencies<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The role affords you to develop technical and behavioral competencies, that is, skills, knowledge, and behaviors required to successfully perform in the role and contribute to the organization&#8217;s goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technical Competencies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proficiency in financial analysis, internal controls, and financial risk management.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to work independently and collaboratively.<\/li>\n<li>Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and financial statement preparation.<\/li>\n<li>Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data analysis tools.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Behavioral Competencies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customer Centricity: Demonstrates diligence and responsiveness in financial control activities to ensure accurate, transparent, and timely financial information that supports internal and external stakeholder confidence.<\/li>\n<li>Risk Management: Proactively identifies financial control gaps, compliance risks, and regulatory exposures, and applies strong judgement to mitigate risks in line with IFRS, company policies, and regulatory requirements.<\/li>\n<li>People Leadership: Provides guidance and support to finance teams and stakeholders on control standards, SOPs, and compliance expectations, fostering accountability and adherence to best practices.<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneurship: Drives value-focused control improvements by recommending practical, efficient solutions that strengthen controls,<\/li>\n<li>optimize processes, and support sustainable financial performance.<\/li>\n<li>Organizational Learning: Continuously updates knowledge of financial regulations, internal control frameworks, and audit requirements, applying insights to improve financial governance and control effectiveness.<\/li>\n<li>Change Management: Supports and enables improvements in financial processes, including automation and control enhancements, ensuring smooth adoption of new controls, systems, and regulatory changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Minimum Requirement<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>B.Sc. \/ HND in Accounting, Finance, or related field.<\/li>\n<li>Professional certification: ACA, ACCA, CFA or CIA (required).<\/li>\n<li>Minimum of 5\u20138 years relevant experience in internal control, audit, or financial management, preferably within the power or utilities sector.<\/li>\n<li>Good knowledge of IFRS, internal control frameworks (COSO), and risk management principles.<\/li>\n<li>Familiarity with NERC regulations, and ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"application-method\" style=\"margin-top:10px; color: #069;\" class=\"mag-b ts-18 bm-t-0 bm-b-5 \"><b>Method of Application <\/b><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"mag-b bm-b-30\">\n<p>Interested and qualified? Go to Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company on docs.google.com to apply\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job Type Full Time Qualification BA\/BSc\/HND , Professional Certificate Experience 5 &#8211; 8 years Location Lagos Job Field Finance \/ Accounting \/ Audit&amp;nbsp Financial Control Specialist at Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company Financial Control Specialist Key Opportunities &amp; Contributions; Financial Strategy &amp; Planning: Shaping longterm financial goals, identifying investment opportunities (e.g., grid upgrades), and supporting major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com.ng\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com.ng\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com.ng\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com.ng\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com.ng\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com.ng\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com.ng\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com.ng\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indeed.com.ng\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}