Compliance Officer

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• Assess company operations |Advise management on the company’s compliance
  

• Assess company operations to determine compliance and inherent risks
• Promote critical mindset within teams and build finance control tower approach
• Ensure fraud resilience and create awareness around company policies
• Advise management on the company’s compliance with laws, group guidelines and procedures through detailed reports
• Ensure roles and responsibilities are properly known and owned by all stakeholders
• Proactively monitor risk environment and increase vigilance within the company
• Leveraging on data driven analysis, audit, on regular basis, company procedures, practices, and documents to identify possible weaknesses or risks
• Implement effective finance compliance programs and pre audit reviews
• Create and monitor effective action plans to manage identified risks and responses to fraud attempts, audit report points and compliance violations
• Ensure proper knowledge sharing and that all employees are educated on the latest guidelines, procedures and processes.
• Establish, maintain and report on company risk matrix and associated remediation controls, especially on fraud strike-back
• Coordinate with Group functions (Finance, Security, Logistics, Procurement HR, Legal…)
• Liaise with Internal Control Systems Leader on existing ICS framework
• Review, assess, identify risks linked to deployment of targeted tools and automation for each process (external and internal solutions)
• Verify that proper methodology/standards/use case delivery lifecycle are deployed and adhered to for consistent quality
• Ensure proper documentation, communication, role definition, maintenance, efficiency, emergency drills, audit back-up plan of tools and associated procedures

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business management, or a related field
• 2 to 3 years’ proven experience in a compliance officer role
• Big 4 audit or similar background focused on internal controls and risk assessment
• Proactive, curious with an excellent risk acumen and strong vision on existing and potential threats (laws, compliance, security, cybersecurity, guidelines…)
• Strong leadership and proven experience to culture change management
• Must be a highly analytical and critical thinker, capable of understanding and analyzing problems and finding creative solutions.
• Recognized Project Management qualification. Proven ability to make decisions around things such as requirement prioritization, scope, assessing viability of solutions etc.
• Passionate about technology, change and eager to push it forward while managing expectations
• A natural communicator, able to explain complex topics in understandable language to different stakeholders (ability to communicate complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders)
• A role model and ’go-to person’ with high emotional intelligence, demonstrated facilitation skills.
• You are fluent in English and French, any other language is a plus