Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Associate, Audit & Risk
Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time
Job Description
- 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.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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