Our client is a leading general manufacturing company seeking to hire a risk and compliance manager whose main responsibility is to add value and improve the operation by bringing a systematic and disciplined approach to the effectiveness of risk management, compliance and control processes.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Identify and assess areas of significant business risk and managing business compliance.
• Implement best audit and business practices in line with applicable internal audit statements.
• Develop, implement and maintain internal audit policies and procedures in accordance with local and international best practices.
• Conduct continuous audits, reviews and enhancements of compliance on processes/ systems/ documents and manuals with reference to laid down policies, regulations, laws and best practices in the industry.
• Champion controls in the business, recommend improvements to our processes and benchmark our controls with industry and global standards.
• Reviewing of Internal controls and making recommendations to the directors for approval and implementations.
• Ensure applicable regulations are complied with by the business and support functions through day-to-day monitoring and regular review of compliance to legislation, regulations and internal policies.
• Ensure compliance risks are identified, assessed, controlled, and enforced throughout the business and keep abreast of any regulatory/legal changes affecting the business and cascade.
• Put in measures to ensure suspicious transactions are identified and reported immediately to the managing director
• Prepare departmental compliance training material, training staff and third parties across all lines, verify understanding through testing and work with the functions on projects to increase compliance.
• Create compliance awareness to ensure management of operations across the business are within the company code of ethics, governance and regulatory requirements.
• Communicate with the leadership team of risk, security, compliance and emergency issues that could impact on business operations
• Review and ensure the proper documentation of any reports related to risk within the store
• Maintenance of an effective code of ethics reporting service and ensuring unethical ways/behavior of other team members are reported to the management.
• Support investigations on business malpractice incidents (fraud incidents) in liaison with the Security Department, and report on findings to ensure management is well informed on the incidents, for strategies to be developed and implemented to protect against recurrences.

Minimum Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Administration or Information Technology or its equivalent 
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience as a Senior Auditor, risk & compliance manager preferably in manufacturing industry.
• Member of a professional body e.g. CPA (K), ISACA and ICPAK will be an added advantage.
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) will be an added advantage.
• Experience in preparing audit and compliance reports  
• Good computer and communication skills

Required Skills and competencies

• Strong leadership, analytical and organizational skills
• Excellent problem-solving capacity with demonstrated ability for considerable analysis and sound judgment to find solutions in a complex environment with shifting and competing priorities
• Personal attributes: integrity, honesty, ethics and integrity, self–motivated and strong interpersonal skills.
• Executive disposition, and demonstrate high levels of integrity
• Ability to develop long-term integrated and cross-functional operational plans
• Ability to operationalize strategy into action for the function
• Business/Financial acumen, business savvy, innovative
• Excellent Organizing and planning skills

How to Apply

If you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience; please send your CV only quoting the job title on the email subject (Risk and Compliance Manager – Manufacturing) to [email protected]  before 5th July 2022