The Senior Compliance Officer contributes to the overall success of the organization by closely working with the program team in working in overall donor grant management. The Senior Compliance Officer will be responsible for providing support to program team during donor proposals, budgeting, financial reporting of assigned grants and donor projects and providing financial support and training to program and partner staff in line with donor regulations and organization policies and procedures. 

• Liaise with internal and external auditors for the smooth running of project audits this part will be a major assignment;
• Regular visit of field offices for checking and assessing financial and non-finance risk. 
• Identify internal constraints which undermine compliance within program and operations and propose corrective measures, review the current approaches available on assessing, measuring and mitigating risks;
• With the support of DoO, design tools and propose risk mitigation and compliance measures in key operational areas;
• Participate in donor proposal development preparing budgets and providing other required information;
• Coordinate, review and follow up financial and audit reports of consortium members and their budget revisions requirements;
• Consolidate consortium financial reports. Follow-up actions points with consortia members and local partners;
• Prepare donor and internal financial reports in a timely manner;
• Review donor narrative reports for accuracy and consistency with financial report;
• Ensure compliance with donor grant requirements and internal policies and procedures;
• Introduce lessons learned from external grant specific audits and general audits;
• Ensure that guidelines for financial management of ZOA are developed and maintained.
• Review of procurement documents, requests, contract and other payment documents as may be delegated from time to time by Director of Operations;
• Liaise with Logistics and Procurement unit to conduct inventory/assets checks and verification on quarterly basis. 
• Periodic check of project expenditures and highlighting grey areas or concerns to Director of Operations. 
• Any other duty that is reasonably consistent with the key tasks of the function.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

• The employee is responsible for the security of the activities that belongs to his/her own position and duties. The employee is also responsible for reporting security incidents in accordance with the process description for reporting data incidents of ZOA.
• The employee has her/his own responsibility to work in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation in her/his position.
• The employee will handle careful with personal data, confidential information and
• (information) systems. 

Report

The position reports directly to Director of Operations. The position work closely  with Head of Finance . He/she has a functional  relationship with program manager.

CONTACTS: 

• External contacts

Donor reports and External audit.

• Internal Contacts

 Support staff, internal audit, program staff

Job Requirement:

• The candidate must be in possession of the following:
• University degree or equivalent in Accounting, Audit, Finance or related field.
• Experience in administrative and financial management of large-scale, complex, international and donor-funded programs.
• Experience in managing donors funds such as: Dutch Foreign Ministry, EU, FCDO, USAID, UN agencies, GIZ is preferred.
• Professional accountancy qualification (CPA or ACCA,CMA,CIA), is an added advantage.
• At least 4 years’ experience in financial management, internal control and related monitoring processes and systems. 

 Other requirements:

• Ability to work effectively under pressure and to manage competing priorities.
• Able to work in a team and link up with external auditors, partners, internal ZOA Staff (advisors, management and field staff);
• Ability to see the big picture while focusing on the process and procedures that are necessary to produce deliverables;
• Attention to detail and numeric accuracy.
• Good written, spoken English, Arabic an asset.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to effectively defend compliance to ZOA and donor procedures.
• Flexibility and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Intermediate to advanced software expertise (Excel and accounting software);
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a team player.

The candidate will subject to Membercheck /COTER procedures, which is against Government Sanction lists to verify that the candidate is not on any of these lists. This counter-terrorism check is a requirement of Donor Government Regulations and is therefore an important part of an employee’s ability to fulfil his/her employment requirements before signing the Employment Contract with the Organization.

• Interested and you want to apply:

Full applications must include the following:

1. Motivation letter stating the reasons for applying.
2. CV including educational, professional training and work experience.

Do you need more information: 

For more information connect with : Nazar Essa Kerbes, email: nazar.abdalla@zoa.ngo , and please make sure that you mentioned the job title in the email. 

Applicants should submit full documents on or before 27/03/2024 to HAC Labour Office at El Gedaref and Sudanjob.net

ATTENTION: 

• Females and persons living with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
• This position for one year subject to renewal based on performance and availability of funding.

        This position is only for Sudanese.