Overview
The Chief, Compliance and Verification is responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the work of the Financial Compliance and Verification Function, leading the function, and shaping organization-wide financial internal controls and verification frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead comprehensive financial compliance and verification processes for grant agreements.
- Champion the design and enforcement of sound financial controls.
- Provide expert guidance on grants management financial compliance.
- Lead innovation initiatives to modernize financial verification.
- Develop and implement a risk-based financial verification approach.
- Lead the strategic review, development, and implementation of cost recovery policies.
- Advise senior management on financial risk mitigation strategies.
- Direct policy formulation for financial validation, verification processes, and Bank Master Data management.
- Drive organization-wide financial controls innovation.
- Provide strategic leadership in designing and delivering training programmes.
- Serve as a senior contact point for internal and external stakeholders.
- Mentor and manage a team of financial verification professionals.
- Direct the governance of bank master data management.
- Modernize bank master data governance.
- Oversee the resolution of exceptions.
- Lead the preparation and analysis of reports concerning bank master data management.
- Ensure timely and accurate responses to audit findings.
- Oversee end-to-end compliance and internal control coverage for flagship and high-value projects.
- Perform additional responsibilities as assigned.
Required Experience
- A minimum of professional experience aligned with the educational level is required:
- First-level university degree (Bachelor’s): at least 13 years of relevant professional experience.
- Advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent): at least 10 years of relevant professional experience.
- Doctorate: at least 8 years of relevant professional experience.
- Professional experience in financial management, including at least 5 years’ experience in a supervisory role at the international level is required.
- Progressive experience in financial planning, controlling, verification and advisory services, preferably in an international organization or a public sector is required.
- Experience in maintaining and managing master data within ERP systems is required.
- Experience in field-based organizations is desirable.
- Demonstrated experience leading financial verification, compliance oversight, and risk mitigation for grants or donor‑funded operations within an international organization or similarly complex environment is required.
- Track record of designing or implementing innovations such as automation-enabled controls, risk‑based verification models, analytics dashboards, or workflow improvements in ERP‑based financial systems is desirable.
- Background in piloting new tools, methodologies, or system enhancements and successfully scaling them across units to improve compliance, efficiency, or service delivery is desirable.
Qualifications
- First-level university degree (bachelor’s or equivalent) in economics, finance, accounting, business administration or other related fields is required.
- Advanced university (master’s or equivalent) degree or Doctorate in the same fields are accepted with a reduced requirement for years of professional experience.
