Strategic • Assist the Board of Directors in fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities on the integrity of the Group's financial reporting and public disclosure activities. • Responsible for the effectiveness of the Group internal control, and audit. • Work with the Managing Director or CEO on the long-term strategic vision of the Company which includes fostering and cultivating stakeholder relationships across various levels as well as advising and overseeing the framework for Control, Audit and Risk Management. • Provide executive leadership in the continuous evaluation of short- and long-term strategic Company’s objectives on Controls & Risk Audit Planning/Design • Lead the Internal Audit team. Develop human resources in IA and provide them training to maximize their effectiveness, even without close supervision. • Assess the performance of IA staff and provide them daily guidance to help them maximize their contributions to the company • As a member of the management team, provide insights into ways to improve business performance without sacrificing laws, ethics or company values • Develop a control assurance framework and annual audit plan using input from the individual audit team and stakeholders to identify priorities and resource requirements for the year, covering all activities. • Oversee and provide quality control for the Group subsidiaries and departments audits, to ensure mandate and business goals are met and that professional standards are always maintained. Risk Management • Build relationships with leaders across the Company to understand issues and identify areas for improvement for the Company as a whole, including close liaison with accounting and finance staff members to identify risks explicit to corporate reporting mechanisms. • Support and encourage supervised team members to be proactive in identifying opportunities to share best practice with the Managers to improve the control environment. • Develop risk policies and procedures and establish appropriate risk metrics and reporting. Implement such procedures for the identification, classification, assessment, and mitigation of key risks. • Production of a risk-based plan of assurance reviews covering the services offered by the Company. • Implementing processes to ensure that records are maintained for operational risk events that occur and for financial losses experienced. • Keep abreast of developments in Corporate Governance practices and advise the business accordingly. • Identify key commercial and financial risks. Consider issues such as documentation to support external invoices, prevention of double payment, existence of unauthorized payment streams, corrupt business practices, bypass of company controls: • Recommend and perform investigations to uncover errors or fraudulent dealing • Develop enhanced controls to prevent future occurrences of errors or fraudulent activities • Develop strategy to mitigate operational loss in the Company as a whole and work closely with business heads to examine the growth potential for their respective lines of business • Training, increasing awareness and knowledge related to financial management matters across the organization. • Provide useful/necessary inputs on various control and risks parameters. • Ensure final reports are issued with all recommendations agreed and accepted by the Group MD & CEO and the Audit team. Review these reports to ensure alignment to Compliance before presentation to Board. • Report to the Board Committees at the required intervals on Internal Audit assignments including planned reviews, investigations, risk advisory work and any other ad-hoc activity as required. • Manage and oversee team performance through performance planning, coaching and performance reviews Any other job functions as directed by the Board and MD & CEO