INTERNAL CONTROL AND AUDIT ASSOCIATE-VACANCY AT FINCRA

Fincra is a payment infrastructure for fintechs, platforms and global businesses. Fincra provides payments solutions that enables businesses to accept payments securely, make payouts globally and scale your business across borders.Vision: Our vision is to simply create a world, where movement of money is instant, and as easy as sending a text message.Mission: To make it easier for businesses in emerging or frontier markets to transact digitally, at low cost and high speed, seamlessly.

As an Internal Control & Audit Associate, you will provide systematic and disciplined approach to effectiveness of risk management control and governance processes. You will possess a thorough knowledge of accounting procedures and a sound judgement. You will be accountable for the examination and evaluation of organization processes, reporting findings back to management regarding possible improvements and corrections.

🚀What you will be doing everyday

• Develop internal audit scope and audit plans.
• Acquire, analyze and evaluate accounting documentation.
• Prepare and present reports that reflect audit results and document process.
• Act as an objective source of independent advice to ensure validity, legality and goal achievement.
• Identify loopholes and share risk aversion methods and cost savings.
• Maintain open communication with management and audit committee.
• Document process and prepare audit findings memorandum.
• Conduct follow up audits.

Qualification

• First Degree in any Business-related discipline, eg, Accounting, Finance, Economics etc.
• ACA, CIA, CISA or related professional qualifications is a plus.
• Minimum of 7 years of internal control and audit experience in a Fintech, Consulting, or commercial bank.
• Prior experience working in a Fintech or payment services firm; Big 4 professional service firm; banking or other financial services firm, technology firms, etc will be an advantage.
• Application of best practice audit standards and latest audit techniques, and tools
• Significant control function experience
• Experience in data analytics and continuous auditing will be an added advantage
• Demonstrable knowledge of fraud schemes and indicators.
• Application of leading internal audit standards, risk management, and control methodologies.
• International Professional Practice Framework IPPF.
• Business Processes.
• Accounting standards.
• Data Analytics skills & Proficiency in use of CAAT.
• Excellent communication skills – verbal, written, presentation.
• Critical thinking and attention to detail.

⚓️🥇Cultural competencies (Company culture that we don’t negotiate with)

• Ownership, We are a team of individuals who are the CEO of their roles, and are able to consistently make excellent decisions independently, even in the face of ambiguity or uncertainty. Our people have the creative freedom to design solutions to problems and the responsibility to execute the right results, expecting the same of your teammates. The company strives to provide overall direction and expectations for each team and role, however, we value people who are able to lead and drive initiatives on their own, in line with the direction.
• Excellence, For us to achieve our very lofty goals as a company, we need to be able to produce best-in-class results, even in the minutest of tasks. We are first principle thinkers and we focus on solving problems from the root cause and not just the symptoms of the problem.
• People Skills, Our people are our greatest asset. They make up the company, the culture and their behavior reflect what our values are. We immensely care about our people and we always make our best effort to see that our people love spending time with each other.
• Communication, We are a people that take feedback seriously and we don’t shy away from even the hard stuff.

🎖 Perks

● A chance to be an early member of a high-growth startup

● We pay competitively in the Nigerian market for the matched experience and role

● Amazing work culture and a company that truly cares about creating the best and most fun place to work

● We offer health insurance that includes dental, optical & covers major surgeries.

● Interest-free staff loans upon confirmation

● We currently work fully remote

● We offer vehicle financing for confirmed employees at 50% of asset value.

● Stock options for early employees.

● Annual Training budget.

Location: Lagos State, Nigeria (Remote)

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