Job Vacancy: Internal Control Officer

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Job Vacancy: Job title: Internal Control Officer

Job description: Job Description:

Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable, and rewarding for every African on the planet.

We’re a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love so it’s only right that we ended up with the name ‘Kuda’ which means ‘love’ in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa.

We’re giving Africans around the world a better alternative to traditional finance by delivering money transfers, smart budgeting, and instant access to credit through digital devices.

We’ve raised over $90 million from some of the world’s most respected institutional investors, and we’re rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.

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Role Overview
The successful candidate will work in partnership with all stakeholders. The role will be reporting directly to the Team Lead of Internal Control.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for maintaining the Internal Control Framework
• Work collaboratively with business and process owners to implement and monitor remediation efforts that result from internal control assessments, ensuring the effective implementation of corrective action.
• Daily Independent Call Over of all qualifying Transactions within 24 hours of posting and where practicable real-time and as may be advised from time to time.
• Ensuring the integrity of the general ledger through daily review of the trial balance.
• Perform income assurance to ascertain accurate revenue reporting
• Ensure prompt resolution of all open issues in the Internal Audit Report, Management letter, Regulatory Examiners Report, and other Statutory Examiners Report involving departments under your purview.
• Internal control checks and records to safeguard company assets.
• Carry out detailed investigations when discrepancy or fraud is noticed.
• Identify areas of financial and administrative strengths and weaknesses and develop best practices.

Requirements:

• At least 2-3 years’ experience in an Internal Control role of a bank.
• ACA/ACCA is an added advantage.
• The Ideal candidate is a critical thinker with a keen interest in improving an organization’s internal control environment.
• Solid understanding and experience with internal control frameworks
• Strong communication skills presenting internal control and risk matters in an understandable way across various forums and levels of the organization with the right level of detail.
• Fintech experience is an added advantage.

Benefits:

Why join Kuda?

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

• Pension
• Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
• Group life insurance
• Health insurance
• L&D training
• We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option

Kuda are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Kuda is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.

We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Location: Lagos, Lagos State

Job date: Sun, 03 Mar 2024 08:41:15 GMT

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