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Save the children

Industry: ONG

Country: Ivory Coast

City: Abidjan

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Posted: 27 March 2015

We are Save the Children. We work in more than 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. (...)

Internal Control Manager

Description

The Internal Control Manager is responsible for ensuring that all Save the Children and donor guidelines and policies are complied with while evaluating the effectiveness of the governance, risk management and control systems in place.
As a member of the SMT s/he will advise on any additional steps that need to be taken to ensure the protection of the programme's assets, funds and reputation.
S/he will undertake regular checks of procedures and documentation in all of Save the Children's offices in Nigeria and will serve as a liaison for all external audit and regulatory agencies.

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Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

Essential:

Qualified internal auditor or compliance manager
Extensive experience in relevant operational areas (eg in programme/project management in an INGO context) and experience of risk-based auditing.
Be highly accurate, detail-orientated, and able to complete multiple projects, with conflicting priorities, on a timely basis
Excellent report English writing skills
Proven interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and relationship building
conditions in some of the most underdeveloped, insecure and remote parts of NIGERIA.
Strong cultural awareness and be able to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
Demonstrate standards of ethics and integrity
Commitment to Save the Children values

Desirable:

INGO experience or have worked in a commercial/public sector international organisation
Familiarity with grant requirements of major donors such as USAID, EC/ECHO, DfID and the UN
Good financial analysis aptitude
Experience of Agresso financial software or other ERP softwares
Experience of audit
Counter fraud experience
Ability to look at the bigger picture when assessing organisational performance and risk

Responsabilities

To lead the Senior Management Team on regularly updating in-country risk assessments and in implementing mitigation measures. Lead on all fraud investigations and in documenting these and reporting to the CD internally and to the regional finance director and regional fraud director in the regional office. Work closely with programme development unit on incorporating a risk culture whilst developing high risk awards. Lead, plan, conduct, report and follow up assignments from internal and external audits and other control action plans on time and to a high standard. Some of these assignments will require the internal control manager to assume the lead role. Ensure that relationships with all clients' remain strong, through effective networking. Deliver training as required to reinforce risk mitigation, fraud awareness and compliance with meeting log frame results Conducting spot-audits tests of the internal controls in finance, Human resources, award, logistics, operations and programme. Flag significant internal control weaknesses to the country director and senior management and support the monitoring of agreed actions to reinforce those weak controls.

Job Locations Availability

Nigeria - Abuja