Overview
The Risk & Compliance Analyst is an oversight role focused on navigating complex operating environments to ensure transparency, robust internal controls, and fraud prevention in the organization's operations. The incumbent acts as a strategic architect for the Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfers (HACT) and serves as an internal check and balance for the Country Office.
Key Responsibilities
- Supports the Deputy Representative and acts as Secretary to the Partnership Review Committee (PRC), ensuring PSEA assessments and non-competitive justifications are watertight.
- Contributes to the development of the annual HACT assurance plan, including micro-assessments, audits, and inter-agency spot checks.
- Analyses cash transfers and reports on outstanding Direct Cash Transfers (DCTs) exceeding corporate limits.
- Contributes to the quality assurance of budgets to ensure segmentation into Programme vs. Operations costs.
- Regularly tests internal controls for high-risk processes, including emergency procurement, localized logistics, and field-level activity monitoring.
- Supports the CO ERM process, ensuring risk registers are dynamic.
- Conducts quarterly reviews of system access roles.
- Ensures suspicions of fraud, waste, or abuse are documented and referred immediately to OAIS.
- Conducts basic research on regulatory trends and selected aspects of compliance operations.
- Supports IP managers in conducting deep-dive due diligence on potential partners.
- Monitors "cascading risks" where primary IPs sub-contract to local NGOs.
- Participates in field missions to conduct on-site compliance spot checks and oversight activities, and conducts "last-mile" validations of physical supplies.
- Designs and delivers training for high-risk national NGOs and government partners on financial management, procurement, and UNFPA reporting.
- Tailors fraud-prevention training for CO staff and IPs.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in risk management, internal audit, or compliance.
- Deep understanding of the HACT framework, COSO internal control standards, and the UN Partner Portal (UNPP).
- Proven ability to analyze complex financial data and identify patterns of irregularity or systemic risk.
- Proven experience working in non-permissive or high-risk humanitarian environments.
- Specific experience in East Africa or South Sudan is a significant advantage.
- Work experience in a humanitarian context is an added advantage.
Qualifications
- Completed Advanced degree/Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Law, or Risk Management.
- Professional certification (CPA, CIA, CFE, or Prince2) is highly desirable.
