Group Internal Control Manager
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Ceviant is hiring a Group Internal Control Manager in Victoria Island, Lagos, to build and oversee a group-wide internal control framework covering governance, compliance, risk assessment, and control monitoring across its fintech businesses. This is a full-time role focused on standards, oversight, and continuous improvement of controls.
- Senior internal control role across a B2B2C fintech group
- Based in Victoria Island, Lagos
- Full-time employment
- Focus on governance, compliance, and risk/control frameworks
- Group-wide oversight of subsidiaries and critical functions
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Group Internal Control Manager at Ceviant
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Ceviant is a leading B2B2C fintech group redefining financial services in the UK and Nigeria through a unified, robust ecosystem of technology-driven solutions and trusted experts that empower businesses and wealth builders to move money smarter, grow faster, and operate with confidence.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Group Internal Control Manager
Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
The Group Internal Control Manager is responsible for establishing, implementing, and maintaining a robust Group-wide internal control framework that supports effective governance, operational efficiency, financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and achievement of Ceviant Group's strategic objectives.
Role Responsibilities
Group Internal Control Framework:
Establish Group-wide internal control standards, principles, methodologies and guidelines.
Establish a consistent approach to control identification, assessment, testing, monitoring, reporting and remediation.
Ensure the control framework remains appropriate as the Group's businesses, products, systems and regulatory obligations evolve.
Promote a strong culture of control ownership, accountability and risk awareness across the Group.
Develop, implement and continuously improve Ceviant Group's internal control framework.
Ensure appropriate controls are embedded within key business and support processes across the Group.
Control Governance & Oversight:
Establish appropriate control ownership and accountability across business and functional teams.
Provide Group-level oversight of the effectiveness of internal controls across subsidiaries and critical functions.
Provide management with independent challenge on the adequacy of controls, while maintaining the appropriate distinction between control ownership and assurance.
Ensure appropriate segregation of duties, approval authorities, and access controls are maintained across critical processes.
Ensure significant control weaknesses are identified, documented, escalated, and addressed.
Define minimum control requirements for critical Group processes.
Risk & Control Assessment:
Identify key control points, control gaps, process vulnerabilities, and areas of excessive reliance on manual controls.
Ensure critical business processes have documented Risk & Control Matrices (RCMs).
Ensure control assessments are updated when processes, systems, products, organisational structures, or regulations change significantly.
Lead periodic Group-wide risk and control assessments.
Work with management to determine appropriate mitigating controls for identified risks.
Assess the design and effectiveness of controls against identified operational, financial, technology and regulatory risks.
Control Testing & Monitoring:
Ensure material control deficiencies are escalated to appropriate levels of management.
Review the results of control testing and assess the significance of identified exceptions.
Monitor the operating effectiveness of key controls across Group entities.
Use data and management information, where available, to strengthen continuous control monitoring.
Establish a risk-based control testing and monitoring framework.
Approve and oversee annual control testing plans for critical processes.
Identify recurring control failures and systemic weaknesses.
Control Remediation & Issues Management:
Escalate overdue or material control issues to Executive Management and relevant governance committees.
Challenge management where proposed remediation actions do not adequately address the root cause.
Validate the effectiveness of remediation actions before considering significant control issues closed.
Establish a formal Group-wide process for tracking control deficiencies and remediation actions.
Ensure control issues have clearly defined owners, corrective actions, and target completion dates.
Monitor remediation of high-risk and recurring control deficiencies.
Policies, Processes & Standard Operating Procedures:
Ensure control requirements are considered when new policies, processes, products or systems are introduced.
Identify opportunities to simplify or automate controls without compromising the control environment.
Ensure key processes have clearly defined roles, responsibilities, approval points and control activities.
Promote standardisation of controls across the Group where appropriate.
Oversee the review of key Group policies, procedures and SOPs from an internal control perspective.
Required Qualifications & Experience
Experience within financial services, fintech, payments, banking or another regulated environment is strongly preferred.
Experience with regulatory and assurance environments is desirable.
Strong understanding of process controls, segregation of duties, operational risk and control frameworks.
Minimum 7 years' relevant experience in internal control, risk management, internal audit, compliance, financial control or a related field.
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Risk Management or a related discipline.
Experience in developing and implementing Risk & Control Matrices and control testing programmes.
Experience working across multiple business units, subsidiaries or entities is an advantage.
Professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIA, CISA, CRMA, or equivalent is an advantage.
Technical Competencies:
Internal Control Frameworks
Issues & Remediation Management
Risk & Control Matrix (RCM) Development
Risk & Control Assessment
Operational Risk Management
Data Analysis & Management Reporting
Audit & Assurance Coordination
Regulatory & Compliance Controls
Control Testing & Evaluation
Process Mapping & Documentation
Policy & SOP Review
Segregation of Duties
Why Join Us?
At Ceviant, we are redefining financial services through our core values of Client Service, Integrity, Excellence, and Partnership. As a Senior Internal Control Officer, you will play a key role in strengthening our internal controls, managing risks, and ensuring compliance across the organization.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to:
recruitment@ceviant.co
using the “Group Internal Control Manager” as the subject of the email.
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