Risk and Compliance Specialist

The Risk and Compliance Specialist supports the Integrated Risk Management team in strengthening risk management and compliance efforts in the WCA Regional Office and WCA Region, focusing on Implementing Partnership management related to programme and operations. The role involves risk data quality assurance, analysis of regional risk trends, control testing, and strengthening risk reporting and early warning signals at the regional level.

Responsibilities

• Risk Data Quality and Integrity Assurance.
• Consolidation and Analysis of Regional Risk Trends.
• Strengthen capability and quality of risk management at Country level.
• Control Testing and Reviews.
• Support Assurance activities.
• Standardization of Tools and Methodologies.
• Monitoring of Risk Actions Across Countries.
• Strengthen Risk Reporting at Regional level.
• Early Warning Signals at Regional Level.

Requirements

• Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in Business Administration, Financial Management, Development studies, International Development, Economics, Auditing, Project/Programme Management or another relevant technical field.
• At least 5 years of continuous professional work experience in Risk and Compliance, programme development/management, or another directly relevant area, several of which in internal audit.
• Experience in Risk Management, Compliance, Programme Implementation, Reporting, Financial Controls is required.
• Fluency in French and English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is desirable.
• Operations Management, Strategic Management, Risk Management, Audit, Investigation, Internal Control, Statistics and Data Analysis or Accounting certifications are considered as assets.
• Experience in financial management, particularly developing and implementing financial control systems, ERM, audits, internal control preferably with international organizations, NGOs and UN is considered as an asset.
• Field experience /familiarity with Emergency is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Skills

• Risk Management
• Compliance
• Programme Implementation
• Financial Control
• Internal Audit
• Reporting
• Operations Management
• Strategic Management
• Internal Controls
• Data Analysis
• Audit
• Investigation
• Finance Management
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Risk Reporting
• Control Testing
• Partnership Management
• Emergency Field Experience

Languages

French, English