Most organisations treat audit and risk as the department that says no. We are building the function that makes yes possible — safely, at scale, across hundreds of farming clusters and thousands of smallholder farmers who depend on what we get right.
What You Will Help Build:
- A scalable internal controls framework that works across our farm clusters — consistent, field-tested, and trusted by operations leadership.
- A compliance and reporting infrastructure that gives our donors and impact investors real-time confidence in how their capital is deployed.
- A compliance and reporting infrastructure that gives our donors and impact investors real-time confidence in how their capital is deployed.
Outcomes We Expect:
- Design and implement a monitoring cadence for controls at the farm cluster level that does not require central oversight to function.
- Create a compliance calendar and evidence-management system that survives key-person dependency.
- Conduct fraud risk assessment of field operations, identifying the top five exposure areas and proposing mitigating controls.
- Lead end-to-end donor audit cycle with zero material findings attributed to internal process gaps.
- Reduce repeat audit findings by 40% within 18 months by driving root-cause resolution, not just repeat reporting.
Requirements
Who We're Looking For:
- Solid grounding in internal audit methodology, risk frameworks (COSO, IPPF, or equivalent), and internal controls design.
- Strong analytical skills — you can read between the lines of a reconciliation, a variance, or a process breakdown.
- Experience with financial controls and compliance reporting, ideally in an organisation with external funders, donors, or development finance institutions.
- The ability to translate risk language into business language — you make people understand why this matters.
Your Mindset:
- You are more energised by designing a system that prevents problems than by writing a report about problems that already happened.
- You are curious. You understand that fraud and control breakdowns often happen in the gaps between processes — and you look for those gaps.
What Excites You:
- The idea that your work protects smallholder farmers from the downstream consequences of organisational failure.
- Being part of building something — not inheriting a mature function, but creating one that will outlast your tenure.
- A clear, intentional succession pathway into a senior leadership role within this function.
- Working in an organisation that is genuinely trying to do something hard and important in the world.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Health Insurance
Pension
Performance Bonus
Annual paid vacation
Group Life Insurance
