Movit Products Limited (MPL), the leading Quality Cosmetics Manufacturing Company in Africa with operations in Uganda, is seeking to recruit a highly competent, motivated and professional individual to fill the position of Risk and Compliance Manager.

Job Summary:
Risk and Compliance Manager will be responsible for monitoring and providing guidance to all organisational operations for compliance with internal policies and procedure and external laws and regulations.
Report To: Chief Operating Officer (COO) .

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Develop departmental annual, monthly and weekly work plan to ensure activities are aligned to the overall strategy;
• Develop, review and update policies and procedures to guide the execution of the Company’s operations in compliance with statutory and professional standards;
• Develop department budget in line with approved work plans and approve all department purchase requisitions to ensure adherence to the approved budget;
• Conduct compliance reviews across all departments to ensure internal compliance to company policies and procedures;
• Conduct compliance reviews to ensure compliance to external laws and regulations; • Develop check list for major processes to guide the compliance team in execution of its activities;
• Develop a risk management framework in line with statutory and professional standards work to ensure all risks are minimized;
• Review of bank reconciliation statements to ensure the cash books and banks statements are regularly and appropriately reconciled;
• Enforce implementation of Audit recommendations across all departments; so as to meet the different audit recommendations;
• Enforce Policy awareness across all departments to ensure all employees are aware of departmental/organisational policies, procedures and regulations;
• Review of the payroll, statutory deductions, terminal benefits and employee contributions to saving scheme to ensure compliance;
• Review and verification of petty cash vouchers to ensure compliance to petty cash policy and approved facilitation structure;
• Conduct regular stocktaking of the main stores and outlets to ensure physical stock and system is regularly reconciled;
• Conduct review of all payments before payments to ensure compliance to approved internal procedures and applicable external guidelines;
• Conduct system and physical verification of the procurement process to ensure compliance to approved internal procedures and external regulations;
• Conduct physical and system verification of sales loadings, sales returns and review sales reports to ensure compliance to approved processes;
• Ensure competence within the department through training and development, coaching and mentorship, performance management and leave management; and
• Effectively report on all compliance activities to inform decision making.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
• Degree in Finance, Accounting and Business Administration
• Master’s degree (MBA) will be an added advantage
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
• Proficient with MS Office application especially Excel and Power Point.
• 5 years of Audit or Compliance experience in FMCG and/or Cosmetic industry.
• Competence in Auditing and auditing techniques
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong verbal and communication skills

Interested candidates are invited to apply through our email [email protected] copy [email protected] .

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Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Closing date: 21st August 2020.