Country Internal Controller

Overview:
The overall mission of the Internal Controller is to contribute to maintain high standards of internal control in the Group by:

- Providing support to Business Process Owners (BPO) to maintain efficient and secure processes,
- Maintaining high standards of internal control, while benefiting from all opportunities to improve efficiency of processes,
- Implementing a sound annual internal control assessment,

His/her role is also to inform the Country Level Management of material internal control weakness, process inefficiencies and / or risk so that they are addressed, and cleared as fast as possible. For the performance of his/her duties, the Internal Controller will be required to travel the country and in the Group on a regular basis, sometimes on short notice, as agreed with his Head of Department and CFO

**Responsibilities**:
**Report**
- Perform Group reporting for Internal Control
- Alert country management and report regularly to local management and Group Internal control on risks, sensitive matters and action plan completion progress
- Process, consolidate, report and advise on information gathered (self-assessments, feedback of indicators by managers, etc.)
- Discuss areas for improvement with business and functional departments, and submit proposals to their hierarchy
- Ensure proper follow up and coordination with each BPOs/COs prior to report submission

**Accompany**
- Sensitize managers to best practices and the benefits of internal control
- Contribute to the harmonization of practices by promoting, spreading and strengthening a common culture on internal control, in particular in terms of integrity and attitude towards risks
- Contribute to the change management by anticipating and supporting the transformations necessary to improve performance and control of activities
- Help managers to set out the directives and guidelines of management in practical guides specifying the risk factors and the corresponding control activities
- Provide support to Managers and shared services in assessing their control environment
- Manage the internal control self-assessment program and provide assistance for its implementation by the operational and functional departments.
- Review and approve business procedures across the organization
- Ensure and follow up regulatory and professional monitoring if necessary
- Coordinate the action plan with the other functions across our entities in order to avoid stacking effects which can be detrimental the clarity and credibility of the system
- Accompany the annual certification process where required
- Contribute to any project impacting processes and control and which may generate risks
- Analyse cases of fraud and implement corrective actions
- Be the point of contact for and assist external and internal auditors for Internal Control/Internal Audit
- Contribute to the monitoring and implementation of internal and external benchmarks on best practices

**Training & Compliance**
- Provide training on Internal Control, Compliance and best practices in the country
- Ensure all BPOs/COs are well trained and fully on board on their control processes
- Train process users on internal control methodology
- Participate in training actions on Internal Control, Compliance and best
- Be a member of the Compliance Committee and ensure the back-up role of the Compliance Coordinator for South Africa on matters related to the Compliance Program.

**Design**
- Set up and apply, based on the guidelines of the group, the internal control system and internal control plan
- Coordinate the deployment of Group policies
- Provide and keep up to date internal control references and methodological guides

**Evaluate**
- Support the ExCom in performing an evaluation of the country internal control environment and in the development of a country internal control culture
- Set up tools and indicators for monitoring the effectiveness of the internal control system
- Plan and carry out the necessary controls
- Ensure the effectiveness of internal control system through the monitoring of the implementation of action plans for mitigation of the risks and performing test plans
- Participate in risk mapping, and more generally in the risk management system
- Conduct Compliance missions
- Assist each BPO/CO in their tasks by conducting regular update meetings

**Health & Safety Management**
- Abiding to group Policies and following Procedures scrupulously
- Having thorough knowledge and understanding of the requirements of group standard, policies, rules and minimum safe behaviours
- Reporting any dangerous situation, near misses or unsafe act/condition to management
- Participating in and contributing to the health & safety activities organized by the company
- Leading or attending tool box talks organized by your department or on sites
- Performing set target of VPC per month
- Maintaining all PPE issued to you by the company
- Keeping management informed of all new work processes pu