Internal Control & Compliance Specialist at Sahei Gender Development Initiative
Sahei Gender Development Initiative
Lagos, Nigeria
Permanent
Published 1 month ago · Expires 3 weeks from now
Job description
This position offers a great opportunity for career growth.
Location: Northeast, Roving Maiduguri and Yobe
Responsibilities
- The Internal Control and Compliance Specialist will work with the Response Coordinator, project Coordinators, Finance and operations team to support compliance with SGDI and donor guidelines and policies.
- This will be done through evaluating the effectiveness of the governance, risk management and control systems in place in SGDI.
- S/he will review, document and assess effectiveness of financial and operational controls over the SGDI project administrative and project activities,
- The Internal Control and Compliance Specialist will undertake regular checks- process and management practice reviews, analyze records, reports, financial statements, and program implementation to ascertain that adequate internal controls are in place to mitigate the risk of non-compliance with local laws, donor requirements, policies and procedure
- S/he will advise on additional controls to be put in place in any area of weakness identified to ensure the protection of the project assets, funds and reputation and compliance with applicable donor guidelines and policies.
- S/he will be involved in conducting reviews into dishonest practices or other code of conducted concerns as may be delegated by the management
- To carry out a regularly reviews of financial, procurement/logistic, HR and program transactions and implementation, ensuring documentation supporting the transactions are in compliance with SGDI policies and procedures, grant agreements and donor regulations both at the Head Office and field office.
- Conducting spot-audits tests on donor requirement compliance in finance, Human resources, award, logistics, operations and project (activities, documentation and reporting) in line with donor requirement
- Work closely with program unit to further a risk aware and responsive culture in designing and developing potential high-risk awards and improving compliance culture on the existing awards.
- Plan, conduct and lead audits and follow up on all internal and external audit action plans and provide periodic updates on actions taken.
- S/he will serve as a liaison for external audit and regulatory agencies on project as may be assigned by the Response Coordinator
- Assist in performing internal control reviews of in project processes, including cash and advance management, procurement, logistics, Programs- implementation, documentation and reporting, Data quality Assurance of M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation) data source documents, stock (incl. food commodities), beneficiaries and food vendors management, assets management etc.
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