Senior Risk and Compliance Officer at Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Risk and Compliance Officer

Location: Abuja

Job Summary

This key role helps in assisting the country program (CP) monitor the effectiveness of internal controls, compliance with CRS policies, reduce risk and fraud and increase awareness to ensure greater stewardship of donor resources.
You will conduct risk related activities for the CP. This includes fraud allegation investigations; review of CRS and partner-level transactions and processes, as well as training CRS and partner staff on fraud detection and mitigation.
You will leverage your accounting knowledge and skills, your attention to detail and your commitment to stewardship while working in close collaboration with CRS colleagues and partners.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

Conduct, audits, process reviews, internal control reviews and compliance assessments. Analyze results and draft reports as directed by the Risk and Compliance Manager in collaboration with the CP’s leadership.
Conduct Fraud Allegation investigations as directed by the Risk and Compliance Manager and in line with CRS Fraud Allegation Management policy and procedure, draft investigation reports ensuring proactive communication with the Risk and Compliance Manager.
Support the country program’s management in completing annual self-assessment Internal Control Questionnaire as required.
Identify risks, internal control weaknesses, gaps in processes, anomalies, and challenges and propose solutions to address findings to improve internal controls and system integrity
Provide compliance assessments for complex transactions
Design and deliver trainings on fraud risk assessment, detection and mitigation to CRS and partner staff.
Assist in closure of activities for both internal and external audits; support, monitor and verify audit closure.
Follow-up and review implementation of recommendations of internal audits/reviews.
Any other relevant duties and tasks assigned by the supervisor.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Key Working Relationships

Internal: Senior Risk and Compliance Manager; Finance Manager and staff; SC Manager; Procurement Manager; PDP Managers; Chiefs of Party and Program Managers; Head of Operations; Country Representative; EARO Risk and Compliance Manager; FAM Unit staff
External: Partner management and staff; project participants; vendors.

Basic Qualifications

BA / MA / M.Sc Degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk & Compliance, or related field of study with 4 years relevant experience for MA/MSC or 6 years relevant experience for BA/BSC degree out of which 3 years must be in internal/external auditing.
Professional accounting qualification – Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA)/Certified Public Accountant – (CPA) preferred.
Additional certifications in the field will be an advantage, e.g. CIA, CFE,
Knowledge of auditing standards, Internal control frameworks, ISPPIA, ISAs, IPSAS, COBIT
Skilled in collecting and analyzing data and leading process/performance improvement initiatives.
Audit, financial, business process review experience.
Internal audit, risk and Compliance or fraud investigation experience for an international non-government organization.
Required Languages: English.
Travel – Must be willing and able to travel up to 50%.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Strong analytical skills with ability to detect and report inconsistencies
Accuracy and completeness with great attention to detail
Good relationship management skills
Ability to make sound judgment
Ethical conduct in accordance with recognized professional and organizational codes of ethics
Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented
Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint).

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with Oracle.

Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff)
These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.