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Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI) is an international development company. For more than 45 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governance, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter in some 80 countries.

Our development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple disciplines. Our clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and national governments.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Compliance Officer

Job Code: 5454
Location: Lagos
Employment Status: Corporate Staff
Reports to: Finance Manager

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Conduct audits of processes and controls, including Operational, Regulatory Compliance, and Financial Audits
  • Ensure enhanced operational and financial reporting of all projects’ activities including analysis of key business elements
  • Support in the financial reporting processes within DAI in Nigeria
  • Provide financial management support to new and existing projects
  • Investigate and report on adverse / unusual budget trends.
  • Coordinate and liaise with external auditors to ensure external audits and financial reporting processes are efficient and effective
  • Assist with financial reporting and reconciliation during project close-out
  • Evaluate systems and processes to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Ensure efficient utilization of DAI’s financial software system.
  • Conduct periodic internal reviews and risk assessment.
  • Develop and maintain compliance review strategies, plans, initiatives and processes.
  • Assist in managing DAI’s quality management systems in DAI

Skills and Qualifications

  • Bachelors’ degree in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or similar discipline. Possession of an accounting certification; ACA, ACCA, CIMA is required.
  • 3 – 5 years of experience in internal audit and financial management. Relevant experience within an International development organization or NGO will be an added advantage.
  • Strong knowledge of accounting, budgeting techniques, financial control practices and reporting.
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel and the ability to work with modern accounting software (e.g. SAGE, QuickBooks, Peachtree, etc)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Note: DAI will only contact candidates that are successful at this pre-qualification stage.

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DAI was founded in 1970 by three graduates of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government intent on providing a more dynamic and effective brand of development assistance. This entrepreneurial approach would look beyond traditional philanthropy to embrace the virtues of the private sector, and build a company that delivers social and economic development on a competitive, cost-effective, best-value basis—a social enterprise that is self-sustaining because it is profitable.

Employee-owned DAI is now a global development company with a record of delivering results in 160 countries. But it remains today what it was as a start-up: innovative, alert, self-critical, and forward-looking—and driven by a powerful sense of corporate purpose. Our mission remains essentially unchanged from the days of the founders.

A Consistent Mission

DAI’s mission is to make a lasting difference in the world by helping people improve their lives. We envision a world in which communities and societies become more prosperous, fairer and better governed, safer, healthier, and environmentally more sustainable.

Incorporated in 1970 as Development Alternatives, Inc., DAI made its earliest mark through a series of analytical studies. In 1973, we won a contract to analyze 36 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) projects in Latin America and Africa.

The resulting study, Strategies for Small Farmer Development, cemented the firm’s growing reputation, and we built on this momentum to seek more substantial assignments implementing projects in the field. Our first major project was to revitalize the agricultural economy in the North Shaba region of Zaire. Other implementation initiatives in rural and agricultural development followed in Sudan and elsewhere.

Among a new generation of DAI employees joining the firm in the 1980s was current CEO Jim Boomgard, a Ph.D. agricultural economist who played a key role in developing an approach to small business promotion in developing countries and managed a landmark multicountry study called Growth and Equity through Micro-enterprise Investments and Institutions (GEMINI).

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0 USD Lagos CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Development Alternatives, Inc (DAI)

Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI) is an international development company. For more than 45 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governance, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter in some 80 countries.

Our development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple disciplines. Our clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and national governments.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:Job Title: Compliance OfficerJob Code: 5454 Location: Lagos Employment Status: Corporate Staff Reports to: Finance Manager
Duties and Responsibilities
  • Conduct audits of processes and controls, including Operational, Regulatory Compliance, and Financial Audits
  • Ensure enhanced operational and financial reporting of all projects’ activities including analysis of key business elements
  • Support in the financial reporting processes within DAI in Nigeria
  • Provide financial management support to new and existing projects
  • Investigate and report on adverse / unusual budget trends.
  • Coordinate and liaise with external auditors to ensure external audits and financial reporting processes are efficient and effective
  • Assist with financial reporting and reconciliation during project close-out
  • Evaluate systems and processes to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Ensure efficient utilization of DAI's financial software system.
  • Conduct periodic internal reviews and risk assessment.
  • Develop and maintain compliance review strategies, plans, initiatives and processes.
  • Assist in managing DAI's quality management systems in DAI
Skills and Qualifications
  • Bachelors' degree in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or similar discipline. Possession of an accounting certification; ACA, ACCA, CIMA is required.
  • 3 - 5 years of experience in internal audit and financial management. Relevant experience within an International development organization or NGO will be an added advantage.
  • Strong knowledge of accounting, budgeting techniques, financial control practices and reporting.
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel and the ability to work with modern accounting software (e.g. SAGE, QuickBooks, Peachtree, etc)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Note: DAI will only contact candidates that are successful at this pre-qualification stage.

2020-10-31

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