Senior Compliance Officer at Christian Blind Mission (CBM)

These are your responsibilities

•  Participates in the processes to set compliance and accountability standards, tools and methodologies for early warning systems.
•  Perform compliance reviews and critical issue investigations at partners, assess findings and agree with the partners and country office(s) on follow up actions
•  Manage new and emerging compliance issues and monitoring the effectiveness of project controls
•  Implements and manages the issue resolution process of Critical Issues incidents in the regions and reports back on a regular basis by drawing up of a list of lessons learnt after a resolution process and building this into project compliance audit process.
•  Identify and analyse field compliance risks on an on-going basis and prepare a report on specific cases and general trends
•  Review, report and recommend remedial actions to partner systems as measured to contract obligations

Supporting core business functions

•  Develops an excellent understanding, skills, knowledge and behaviour that is aligned to Business needs and wider organizational strategy
•  Undertakes Partner Assessments as may be required from time to time

These are your qualifications

•  Holder of a university degree in accounting, business management or similar and CPA/ACA/ACCA.
•  A minimum of five years of field compliance experience preferably with an international development organisation and/or experience in audit
•  Good knowledge of fund requirements of major aid agencies for example EU, USAID, BMZ
•  Deep technical knowledge in areas of financial management, risk and compliance
•  Knowledge in maintaining highly optimized compliance processes
•  Strong attention to detail, accuracy and with an ability to remain flexible and work well under pressure
•  Knowledge of Teammate+ auditing system (an added advantage)

What we offer

•  A meaningful position with a lot of creative freedom in the world's leading organisation in the field of Disability Inclusive Development
•  A fair salary and other social benefits based on the local conditions in the country you apply for
•  An approachable, agile organisation with self-reliant people in a diverse and collegial team and great team spirit