Overview
To support the ATU’s mandate by conducting accountability audits, compliance reviews, and proactive monitoring activities across MSF EA departments. This role also serves as an investigator for complex cases, ensuring that financial systems, resource allocation, and operational processes adhere to MSF’s internal standards, donor requirements, and principles of transparency.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct thematic or comprehensive accountability audits focusing on community engagement, decision-making, resource allocation, and adherence to commitments.
- Ensure audit findings inform management of decision-making and corrective actions.
- Perform regular risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and emerging challenges.
- Provide real-time advisory support on setting up and strengthening accountability systems.
- Assist in maintaining the Risk and Compliance Register, tracking deviations.
- Prepare formal Compliance Gap Reports with clear findings and tracked corrective action plans.
- Conduct periodic compliance reviews and audits across departments.
- Establish clear referral protocols with Safeguarding to distinguish between behavioral/safeguarding cases and Integrity/Fraud cases.
- Follow up on key findings, evidence, risk ratings, recommendations, and agreed action implementation.
- Carry out compliance monitoring and follow-up through regular review, analysis, reporting and follow-up.
- Conduct impartial investigations into allegations of fraud, corruption, financial misconduct, and breaches of organizational protocol.
- Support complex investigations by gathering and analyzing financial records, transactional data, and documentary evidence.
- Collaborate with forensic experts and legal advisors as needed.
- Coordinates confidentiality standards and case-ownership responsibilities.
- Provide technical support in designing context-appropriate Feedback and Response Mechanisms (FRMs).
- Monitor FRM performance using key indicators.
- Ensure FRMs are accessible safe, and inclusive.
- Analyze FRM data to identify systemic issues and contribute to organizational learning.
- Contribute data-driven insights to the Quarterly Internal Dashboards and the Annual Accountability Report.
- Support the development and delivery of training modules on Accountability Fundamentals, FRM Management, and Whistleblower Protection for staff.
- Support development of scalable training approaches including e-learning modules.
Required Experience
5–7 years of relevant experience in accounting, auditing, accountability & quality assurance, risk & compliance, complex case or forensic investigations, preferably within the humanitarian or non-profit or private and public sector. Experience working in Eastern Africa or similar complex operational environments is highly desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Accounting, Finance, Auditing, or a related field. Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), or Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) is required.
