Compliance and Risk Officer

The Compliance and Risk Officer is responsible for assisting the Compliance and Risk Manager in ensuring that:

Externally

(i)   Compliance by various external partners of ENTERPRISE PARTNERS is properly adhered to as per the Compliance and Risk Manual.

(ii)   Financial, environmental and social risks related to partnering with private partners are assessed, recorded and mitigated accordingly.

Internally

(iii)    Internal control and compliance are adhered to as per the donor regulations; use established standards, policies and procedures to assist programme implementation.

(iv)   Lead and coordinate systems improvement initiatives and timely corrective actions, and oversee implementation of adequate internal control procedures for effective stewardship and management of resources.

 

Specific duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

1.  Ensure that the procedures outlined in the Compliance and Risk Manual are dully adhered to by the whole EP Team and by the partners during the whole life cycle of the interventions.

2.  Assist the EP Team in carrying out partner selection process.

3.  Participate in the contract negotiation process with partner organisations and in finalising the contract agreement and more specifically:

•  Conduct the required due diligence procedures, including filed visits to potential partners in the whole country in order to assess the financial, environmental and social risks.

•  Ensure ineligibility criteria are dully checked.

•   Review and question the proposed detailed budget and the related milestone payment modalities.

4.  Responsible for maintaining proper documentation and filing of records in hard and soft copy.

5.  Track, follow up and document the ethical business conduct procedures related to any internal and external potential, actual and perceived conflict of interest.

6.   Assess whether the milestones agreed in the contract have been properly met by the partner (quantity and quality assessment) when presenting an invoice.

7.   Work closely with the EP Finance Team (i) to follow-up internally any payment to consultants or partners by ensuring that the required payment approval process is dully followed and (ii) to estimate the monthly cash flow requirements for the on-going interventions.

8.  Provide training to the EP Team on compliance and risk management, on the Compliance Manual procedures and on the software used for compliance tracking.

9.  Perform other duties as required and assigned by the Line Manager and Management.

• BA/MBA/MA degree in Accounting or Finance or related fields of study

• 4/2 years of relevant work experience


• Competence in MS office, relevant accounting software and Professional level competence in English Language

Closing date: Dec 11, 2015

Only candidates meeting the requirements indicated above are invited to send their CV and covering letter electronically to pepejobs@dai.com with the words “

” in subject section of the email. .

ONLY electronics submission is accepted.