Compliance Assistant (Nigeria National only) at Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Town/city:

Borno

Employment type:

Contract

Percentage of full-time:

100

Webcruiter ID:

4253730443

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Duties and responsibilities

• Ensure adherence with NRC / NIF policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines, and donor/auditor requirements as regards to all printed and online publications.
• Assist to conduct a quality check to make sure NRC & donor regulations are followed for all transactions under review including finance, purchases, recruitment, payments, etc.
• Assist to ensure that all financial transactions are coded with the correct Donor, account, activity, and location codes as per the standard chart of account.
• Assist to ensure that all vendors are vetted through Watchdog prior to payment.
• Assist to conduct spot checks for compliance and adherence to NRC and Donor guidelines
• Support in ensuring proper audit trails are established for all procurement and financial documents.
• Assist in ensuring that all financial documents are clearly stamped with Donor codes, paid stamp before archiving.
• Support in ensuring that NRC Nigeria is complying to all donor regulations in each transaction and highlight up in the line if something is not followed properly
• Support in ensuring that program/ beneficiaries data correspond with financial and logistic reports
• Support ensuring that Procurement, warehouse, and Finance document backup system is in place and backup is being done for all documents as per NRC/Donor policies.
• Maintain filing record of Compliance & risk Unit
• Assist in coordination with Area offices/field offices to complete the compliance review work effectively and efficiently.
• Support in “Securing Supporting Documentation” (SSDi) in line with duties assigned by the line manager
• Follow up on any other duties as assigned by the line manager

Qualifications

• Have relevant qualifications for example master degree in accounting, business administration, or equivalent – any other professional qualification like ACA will be
• Have relevant qualifications for example bachelor's degree in accounting, business administration or equivalent – any other professional qualification like ACA will be preferable.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience in a Support Function of a humanitarian/recovery context-including 1 year preferably with an audit firm.
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities Good knowledge of English

Personal qualities

• Managing resources to optimize results
• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• communicating with impact and respect
• Handling an insecure environment
• A good sense of humour is an asset
• All employees of the Norwegian Refugee Council should be able to adhere to our Code of Conduct and the four organizational values: Dedicated, innovative, inclusive and accountable.

We can offer

• Commencement: July 21st, 2020
• Duration: 7 months (One-year renewal)
• Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions of grade-level 4 steps 1
• Duty station: Maiduguri, with frequent travels. Travel outside Maiduguri is dependent on changing security conditions, especially for certain roads in the area.
• An approved health certificate will be requested before the contract start.
• Application procedures and CV registration: Please note that you are required to enter the geographical location for all your previous positions while registering your CV. There is no specific field for this information in our CV form, but you can use the "Company name" field for both company and location.