Internal Control Officer (Audit) at Brands Optimal Limited

Brands Optimal Limited is one of Africa’s leading experiential marketing agencies, which optimizes value for clients through the use of strategic, reliable, and measurable methods in consumer engagement, loyalty seeding, and sales generation.

• The Internal Control & Field Assurance Officer will serve as the agency’s primary line of defense against fraud, budget inflation, and campaign operational failures.
• You will enforce strict compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) during agency campaigns and identify points of  financial leakage across vendor management and project execution.

• Forensic Auditing: Investigate budget overruns, vendor invoices, and project float retirement discrepancies.
• Live Spot Checks: Conduct unannounced field visits to activation sites to verify promoter compliance and asset deployment.
• Process Risk Mapping: Evaluate standard workflows across all departments to patch internal control vulnerabilities.
• Post-Activation Reconciliation: Audit and reconcile post-event project retirements, ensuring all receipts, field logs, and vendor invoices are genuine and accurate.
• Asset Tracking: Track the movement and storage of brand assets, rigs, electronics, and point-of-sale materials (POSMs) in the warehouse.
• Vendor Price Vetting: Periodically audit procurement processes and benchmark vendor quotes against market prices for setups, fabrications, printings, and merchandise.
• Corrective Action Planning: Work with heads of departments to correct audit exceptions and build stronger financial guardrails.
• Vendor Price Vetting: Periodically audit procurement processes and benchmark vendor quotes against market prices for setups, fabrications, printings, and merchandise.
• Exception Reporting: Maintain a weekly audit exception tracker and report all control breaches, financial errors, or suspicious activities directly to Management