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Officer Internal Audit, Compliance & Risk Management NGO Jobs – Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS)
Job Title: Officer Internal Audit, Compliance & Risk Management
Organisation: Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Manager Internal Audit, Compliance & Risk Management
About the Company:
Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) is the leading National Humanitarian Organization in Uganda and a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Job Summary: The Officer Internal Audit, Compliance & Risk Management is responsible for providing audit assurance to key stakeholders about the efficacy of risk management (especially at the project level). The position also adds value by providing advisory services to management and project teams on project risk management and execution of the enterprise risk management framework, as well as through proposals to enhance project governance and control mechanisms.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning
Adheres to the directorate strategies and implements procedures to ensure those strategies are executed.
Participates in annual audit planning.
Risk Management and Compliance
Participate in supporting periodic risk assessments (especially for projects)
Partake in supporting project teams to prepare project risk management plans and guiding them in executing those plans.
Report on key risk indicators (KRIs) and implementation of risk mitigation strategies.
Conduct compliance reviews and support project teams to establish compliance obligations registers
Internal Audit
Execute risk-based internal audits that are properly planned, based on context-specific audit programmes, and properly documented through professionally prepared working papers. These audit reports add value to projects and other audited entities.
Conduct follow-up audits and issue reports
in coordinating external audits
Budget Management
Participate in the directorate’s resource management through ensuring adherence to financial and other resource allocations to audits.
Resource Mobilisation
This position indirectly contributes to fundraising efforts through audit support to project management teams. Such support involves providing advisory services to project management teams to improve proposal risk assessment and management.
In addition, the outcomes of project audits should lead to better project performance, which should improve the repute of URCS and enable it to obtain repeat funding.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Education Qualifications
Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Commerce, Finance, Economics or other related field from an approved, recognised and reputable university.
Student or Qualified Membership of the Institute of Internal Auditors or equivalent professional body is preferred but not mandatory
Essential Experience
Minimum 2 years’ hands-on internal audit practice.
Core Competencies.
Negotiation and conflict management
Innovation and creatively
Stakeholder management
Commitment to continuous learning
Communication
Technology awareness
Policy research and development
Change capability and adaptability
Manage resources
Empowering and building trust.
Knowledge and Skills
Ability to conduct assurance and consulting engagements conforming with the Global Internal Auditing Standards, practice guides, implementation guides, and leading practices in executing internal audits
Capability to sufficiently use audit-aided tools like embedded monitoring routines in URCS software(s), MS Office applications and other automated tools that can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of auditors.
Ability to detect any potential impairments to internal audit independence and the impact of such impairments.
Capacity to notice and manage any real or perceived impairments to an individual internal auditor’s objectivity; assess and maintain internal audit objectivity
Ability to conduct risk-based project audits
Demonstrated individual conformance with The IIA’s Code of Ethics.
Due professional care.
Knowledge of non-profit and humanitarian organisations’ operations
Project Risk Management
Enterprise Risk Management Framework and Process
Grant management practices
Awareness of project management frameworks
Compliance management framework
How to Apply:
Please send your filled application form Download Here and attach your academic transcripts and certificates. The filled application forms, academic transcripts and certificates should be e-mailed to; vacancies@redcrossug.org or hand delivered, and or by post to:
The Secretary General,
Uganda Red Cross Society,
Plot 551/555 Rubaga Road,
P.O. Box 494, Kampala, Uganda.
Email: vacancies@redcrossug.org
Due to large volumes of applications; only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted. Canvassing shall lead to automatic disqualification.
Deadline: 14th October 2024 at 5: 00pm
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