Internal Control

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Systems Design & Implementation

• Design, set up, establish, and continuously enhance the company’s Internal Control framework across all entities, departments, processes, and geographic locations of the company’s operations in this country.
• Develop, document, and enforce company-wide control standards and protocols, ensuring consistency, traceability, and accountability.
• Embed controls into business processes in a manner that prevents circumvention and ensures sustainable execution while being compatible with business objectives

2. Monitoring, Detection and Investigation

• Conduct continuous reviews of operational, financial, and procedural controls to identify gaps, vulnerabilities, and emerging risks.
• Conduct internal investigations into company processes, control breaches, irregularities, or suspected misconduct
• Exercise sound professional judgment when evaluating complex or ambiguous situations where formal rules may not fully address the actual risk.
• Prepare clear, evidence-based findings and recommendations for senior management, Group Audit Committee and governance bodies
• Track remediation actions to completion and assess their effectiveness.

     3. Advisory & Support

• Support Internal Audit and Risk functions through analytical input, investigation follow-ups, and control assessments.
• Advise the business on control implications for new initiatives, transactions, or expansion into new regulatory or operational areas.
• Ensure internal controls are embedded early in business development and transformation initiatives.

4. Training and Compliance Culture Building

• Deliver targeted training and guidance to raise control awareness and strengthen execution discipline.
• Contribute to building a culture where transparency, accountability, and ethical conduct are integral to daily operations.

Qualifications and Experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Law, Auditing, Internal Audit, Compliance, Accounting, or a related discipline.
2. 8+ years of relevant experience in Internal Control, Compliance, Audit, Investigations, Industry Regulator or Disciplinary functions within large or multinational organizations.
3. Demonstrated experience designing and enforcing control frameworks from the ground up, with measurable impact.
4. Proven investigative capability, including handling sensitive or high-risk matters with professionalism, discretion, rigor, and independence.
5. Track record of working autonomously and maintaining effectiveness in high-pressure or complex environments.
6. High standards of precision, documentation discipline, and analytical rigor.
7. Fluency in English and ability to operate confidently in multinational and cross-cultural contexts.
8. Strong awareness of international best practices and regulatory expectations.

Personal Attributes

• Strong personal integrity and commitment to fairness and transparency.
• Willingness to ask difficult questions and deliver objective conclusions, even under in challenging or complex environments.
• Comfortable working independently, including in situations involving resistance or limited support.
• Calm, resilient, and disciplined under pressure.
• Sound judgment and professional courage and integrity when escalation is required.