Senior Manager: Audit, Investigations, Risk & Compliance at African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET)

We have started building our professional LinkedIn page. Follow Company: African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) Location: Ghana State: Jobs in Accra Job type: Full-Time Job category: NGO Jobs in Ghana No views yet Job Description Job Title: Senior Manager: Audit, Investigations, Risk & Compliance Reporting to: Global CFO Hours: Full Time (Monday- Friday, 37.5 hrs per week) flexible working considered Start Date: ASAP Location: Any CAMFED country of operation About CAMFED CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education) is an international non-profit organisation tackling poverty and inequality by supporting marginalised girls to go to school and succeed, and empowering young women to step up as leaders of change. Over the next five years we have set the audacious goal of supporting five million girls in rural sub-Saharan Africa to learn and thrive in school, and to create the future they imagine – for themselves, for their communities, and for Africa. Job Purpose CAMFED places great importance on a responsible approach to risk management and mitigation. The post-holder will have a major role in ensuring that the organisational risk map outlined in country risk registers are kept under constant review and amended to reflect any changes in organisational priorities and adapted to new emerging risks. The post-holder will work to ensure that the whole range of assurance activities that are set out in CAMFED’s risk registers for each country are acted on timeously, diligently and accurately reported on. Primary responsibilities will include proactive actions to pre-empt risks as defined in the Board approved annual internal audit plan, investigating possible violations of CAMFED’s policies and procedures and the local laws and reporting on the outcome of the investigations independently, professionally without fear or favour. The role reports directly into the Global CFO. Specific Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• The is role is responsible for identifying and mitigating organisational risks and provide compliance oversight to ensure that CAMFED’s procedures and policies are followed, and incidents of non-compliance are thoroughly investigated and reported on.

• The specific accountabilities and responsibilities are as follows:

Internal audit framework –

• Assist in development of CAMFED’s annual audit plan

• Assess risks defined in the national offices’ risk registers and new emerging ones

• Develop appropriate plans to investigate and / or mitigate the identified risks

• Plan and carry out internal audit assignments, develop reports and engage country management teams in reviewing and validating audit findings

• Ensuring audit finding actions are implemented

• Liaise with CAMFED’s out-sourced internal auditors to deliver the internal audit agenda

Investigations, risk and compli...