Advisor Compliance Risk and Audit Management Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is the implementing agency of the Federal Republic of Germany for technical and international cooperation. It offers flexible, sustainable and effective solutions in political, economic and social change processes. Most of the work of GIZ is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). GIZ also operates on behalf of other German ministries as well as public and private bodies in Germany and abroad. These include the European Commission, the United Nations, the World Bank and governments of other countries.
The upcoming phase of the Programme “Strengthening Good Financial Governance in Zambia (GFG)” is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the European Union (EU), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Its objective is to strengthen financial governance in Zambia in terms of transparency, accountability, citizen-orientation and efficiency.
In this context, GIZ is seeking a suitable candidate to fill the following position:
Advisor Compliance Risk and Audit Management – (Lusaka based)

REF: GIZ_GFG_ACRAM

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Support Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) in reforming its taxpayer compliance risk management system (developing governance structure and standard processes) and contribute to the further development of the Bulk Intelligence Data Analysis (BIDA) system.
• Support ZRA in the development of an integrated audit programme, joint audits, the transition to e-audit as well as the use of analytical tools.
• Support ZRA and GIZ team members at the intersection of compliance risk management, audit management, data management as well as taxpayer service provision.
• Identify capacity building needs (on the organizational and individual level) for ZRA in the respective areas.
• Support the programmes’ efforts in monitoring, evaluation, reporting as well as knowledge management in the area of tax and customs administration.
• Support the programmes’ efforts in public relations in the area of tax and customs administration.
• Support the steering of external experts and consultancies.

Where appropriate and reasonable, the position holder is expected to perform tasks outside the scope of the job description, especially in case the core partner ZRA requests technical support in further areas not mentioned here.

Required qualifications

• University degree in an area relevant to the program’s objectives, such as Accounting, Economics, Financial Management, Public Administration, Business Administration and other related fields.

Professional experience

• Several years of work experience in or with tax administration/revenue authority.
• Practical experience with taxpayer compliance risk management.
• Practical experience in tax/customs audit as well as e-audit is an asset.
• Strong computer literacy in accounting and/or audit software is an asset.
• Professional experience in organizations of bilateral or multilateral development cooperation is an asset.

Other knowledge and additional competences:

• Willingness to acquire new knowledge as required by the assigned tasks.
• Strong commitment to the programme’s mandate, team spirit, reliability and diplomatic skills.
• Strong intercultural competence and gender sensitivity.
• Strong advisory competence, conceptual skills and ideally experience with the use of agile methods.
• Excellent communication and writing skills in English.