Compliance Manager at Christian Blind Mission (CBM)

Main tasks 

• Act as “hands-on” support to ensure compliance, resolve compliance issues and report back to the case specific stakeholders
• Identify, capture and communicate pertinent information, under tight deadlines, in a form and time frame that enables management to take due action
• Implement and manage the issue resolution process of red flags and internal audit critical project incidents in the region of operation and report back results to internal audit
• Draw a list of lessons learnt after a resolution process and include them into the project monitoring/internal compliance process
• Embed control activities in policies and procedures that help ensure that management directives are clearly stated
• Participate in the development of programmatic and financial accountability standards led by the COO as well as with other compliance managers
• Communicate to and train staff at regional, country and partner level on CBM´s programmatic and financial accountability standards in order to avoid past compliance issues
• Identify and analyse compliance risk on an on-going basis and report to the COO and Regional Director on specific cases and general trends
• Facilitate the establishment of a compliance environment that sets the tone of CBM integrity, commitment to competence, management philosophy and implementation of remediation actions
• Establish a process that assesses the quality of the system’s performance over time to track and monitor the occurrence of compliance issues 

Professional Profile and Requirements 

• CPA or equivalent professional qualification, MBA, Master’s degree in Finance and/or Compliance or related field;
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in professional audit, compliance and related risk management, in a functional responsibility or in a management position;
• Knowledge of CBM or similar organisations and their respective field and regional operations;
• Extensive experience working in the field;
• Experience in working in a multi-cultural environment and with multiple stakeholders. 

Personal Profile & Competencies 

• Technical expertise
• Establishing focus
• Analytical and forward thinking
• Personal credibility
• Decisiveness
• Thoroughness
• Building collaborative relationships
• Providing motivational support
• Knowledge of MS Navision, Office and SharePoint solutions, accounting software QuickBooks, Dac Easy
• Very good knowledge of English. Knowledge of French and/or Spanish would be advantageous