Control Lead at Serengeti Breweries Limited

Job Title: Controls Lead

Level: Level 5

Reports To: Controls, Compliance & Ethics Manager

Context/Scope (incl. Location):
Serengeti Breweries (SBL) is the Tanzanian subsidiary of Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks business. The company has 3 breweries in Dar, Moshi and Mwanza where it brews leading local brands such as Serengeti, Tusker and Senator, as well as the local licenses to import Diageo’s world renowned spirits brands including Smirnoff vodka, Johnnie Walker whisky and Baileys

As a Diageo entity, SBL is required to meet an international standard of controls which is established through the company’s Controls Assurance and Risk Management (CARM) framework and audited by company’s Global Audit and Risk (GAR) team

Since SBL was acquired by Diageo in 2010 it has been on an ongoing journey to strengthen its controls environment to the level expected of a Diageo business. After being rated as deficient and marginal deficient in GAR audits during 2012 and 2013, the company achieved its first satisfactory rating in 2014.

The Controls Lead is part of the Control, Compliance & Ethics (CCE) team which oversees SBL’s internal controls assurance process (including annual CARM certification), delivers compliance training and supports the implementation of Diageo’s global policies and which oversees the company’s breach and risk management processes. The remainder of the team consists of a Controls, Compliance & Ethics Analyst and a Compliance Lead all reporting into the Controls, Compliance & Ethics Manager

Market Complexity: 
Globally Diageo is operating in an increasingly challenging external environment with placing higher importance on robust controls and compliance programs particularly through American SEC regulations and UK anti-bribery laws 

Leadership Responsibilities: 
As a member of the CCE team they are expect to act as a leader in controls and compliance across the business both through exemplary conduct themselves as well as supporting and coaching their colleagues in other functions

Purpose of Role:
The Controls Lead is primarily responsible for contributing to and implementing the controls aspects of the SBL Controls, Compliance & Ethics Strategy.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Acting as a champion for the controls agenda, providing specialist advice and continuously seeking opportunities to further strengthen controls within SBL
• Ensuring that each function has signed up to controls framework which: o sets out the controls for which the function is responsible; o covers both the risks identified in the CARM framework and locally identified risk ; and o accurately reflects how the controls are operated in practice 
• Supporting each heads of department to have in place a continuous assurance process (e.g. monthly control days) to ensure that the controls in their area are functioning effectively, including coaching and mentoring functional control leads to assist in the process 
• Ongoing quality assurance of the functional control days and consolidation into a monthly dashboard of controls performance 
• Maintenance of the SBL fraud risk footprint, ensuring that the mitigating controls have been agreed with the relevant head of department and incorporated into one of the functional controls frameworks 

Top Accountabilities: 

• Oversight and quality assurance of the controls framework and controls day process 
• End to end management of CARM 
• Support to / holding heads of department accountable for the closure of control gaps identified through the controls day and CARM processes

Qualifications and Experience Required 

• Professional qualification in audit or accounting 
• 5 years experience in risk based internal auditing 
• Strong knowledge of compliance and policies 
• Interpersonal relationship building skills and ability to engage at an Exec level
• Proven ability to manage projects and facilitate business change

Control Lead