Internal Control Manager at Save The Children

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

•     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.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

•     Qualified internal auditor or compliance manager
•     Extensive experience in relevant operational areas (e.g. 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
•     Willingness to undertake high amount of travel within the NIGERIA SCI field locations (40%) and work with minimum supervision under difficult 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.