Risk & Internal Control Specialist at FrieslandCampina

About the job

• Are you looking for a challenge to help FrieslandCampina secure distributor/customer compliance with Internal Controls? Do you like to continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of controls and related processes? Want to support Operating companies within Africa, Middle East and Pakistan in managing their distributor/customer risks and controls? Then strengthen our team as an Distributor Risk & Control Specialist!

What We Ask

What we ask:

• Bachelors or Masters in IT or accounting or finance. Being a qualified IT auditor would be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 4 years of working experience in a matrix complex organisation, preferably in an international organization (preferably FMCG industry) or larger Consultancy / Audit Firm.
• Knowledge and work experience in data analytics and dashboarding (preferably in distributor/customer compliance).
• Knowledge and work experience in distributor end-to-end business processes, internal control compliance, and process improvements
• Experience with Distributor Management Systems will be an added advantage
• Strong analytical skills, hands-on, accountable, accurate, pro-active and result oriented.
• Professional communication in English, writing and verbal, and able to work within different cultures and in an international team.

What We Offer

FrieslandCampina offers you a place to be yourself. In an innovative work environment with facilities and support that are second to none, we welcome your skills, ideas and passion. Most of all we welcome you as the person you are and the person you want to be. Our mission is to liberate people to work smarter.

FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria PLC is located at Industrial Estate, Plot 7b Acme Rd, Ogba, Ikeja 100001, Lagos, Nigeria. Our colleagues are diversified in ethnicity, gender and languages. Opportunities to work with all different functions and many more locally or abroad. We believe in people development where you chart your own path for your own career growth.

Our reward policies support FrieslandCampina’s values and business strategy by helping to attract, engage and retain the best possible talent at every level. We offer remuneration packages that recognize and reward individual performance, experience and potential, while reflecting competitive practices in all the countries in which we operate. A transparent, consistent and fair approach to reward is critical to our success and growth.

Vacancy Description

General

• As part of the Enterprise Governance, Risk & Control (EGRC) team, support RFC's distributor internal controls compliance activities (i.e. implement & use monitoring analytics, analyse data insights and participate in specific distributor reviews, risk deep-dives, control implementations, control optimizations, control standard setting, etc.)
• Continuously creating awareness of internal controls and enhancing the risk & control culture and mindset within the organisation.

Specific:

• Perform monitoring activities for distributor internal controls compliance (i.e. monitor systems and follow up on exceptions)
• Escalate identified exceptions for investigation by respective Operating company stakeholder(s)
• Perform distributor reviews of respective Operating companies, report outcomes, and follow up on improvement actions
• Supports with periodic reporting to key stakeholders of overall distributor compliance status
• Supports the R&C community/business with specific distributor data analytics input required
• Supports to identify new distributor compliance controls and transition these controls to be onboarded in Continuous Monitoring
• Participate in specific distributor deep-dive and investigation(s)
• Participate in global/regional Risk & Control related engagements and support larger or manage smaller Risk & Control engagement based on subject matter expertise