Business Intergrity Officer at UNILEVER Tanzania

Business Intergrity Officer
Business Intergrity Officer at Unilever January, 2023
Main job purpose
The
Business Integrity Officer is responsible for ensuring compliance with
ekaterra’s Code of Business Principles (the Code/COPB) and Code Policies
and developing local due diligence procedures and other business
controls with a view to embedding a compliance culture. The Business
Integrity Officer is responsible for achieving operational excellence in
enforcing the Code between ekaterra Tea Tanzania (eTT) employees and
relevant third parties. He/she will support the Business Integrity
Committees in eTT and will be the visible go to person for the
escalation of Code related issues within eTT.
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The
Business Integrity Officer eTT must demonstrate the judgment, drive and
influence needed to deploy ekaterra’s Business Integrity programme
across eTT for optimal results, in liaison with subject matter experts
and consistent with the global ekaterra Roadmap for Business Integrity.
The Business Integrity (BI) Officer eTT will assist the BI Officer –
Plantations to deploy the ekaterra Business Integrity Programme across
eTT’s tea estates.

Key interactions
The Business Integrity Officer eTT will interface with the following stakeholders:

• eTT Country General Manager
• General Counsel – Plantations
• Business Integrity Officer – Plantations
• eTT Leadership Team
• Investigations Officers
• Other Functional risk specialists in eTT (e.g. in Finance, HR, IT, Security, Welfare and Legal) including subject matter experts
• Global Business Integrity network colleagues
• eTT Business Integrity Committee
• Plantations Business Integrity Committee
• Other stakeholders as may be designated from time to time.

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Key Accountabilities
The key accountabilities of the Business Integrity Officer eTT are as follows:
PREVENTION
1. Education and Awareness:

• Global education and awareness programmes, monitoring of completion rates in eTT
• Education of specific eTT employees / functional groups where required
• New joiner awareness and on-boarding, leaver exit process
• Annual declarations

2.
Maintains an understanding of applicable local compliance laws /
regulations and best practices3. Deploys local procedures and controls
to cover key local compliance areas
4. Enforces COBP and other company policies between eTT employees, its customers, contractors, and suppliers

DETECTION
5. Promoting the Code and Reporting channels:

• Manage local Code and compliance engagements within the eTT through town halls, leadership team engagements.
• Ensure that all reporting options are clearly communicated.
• Ensure that the Business Integrity hotline is accessible (e.g. via freephone numbers).

6. Code compliance and (business) risk identification and assessment:

• Review and monitor eTT’s external issues and developments and report to the General Counsel.
• Maintain local Code compliance control requirements and procedures.
• Engage with high risk third parties.
• Engage with (local) procurement to ensure 3rd party compliance with relevant policies and standards.
• Manage co-ordination of eTT’s Code Compliance Self-Assessment and remediation plans.

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RESPONSE
7. Code case handling and Investigations (breaches):

• End
  responsibility for all Code investigation in eTT, from preparing
  investigation plan to sanctioning proposal and closing with the eTT
  Business Integrity Committee. Escalation to and support the General
  Counsel Compliance as and when necessary for cases handled by the
  Plantations Business Integrity Committee.
• Investigate and conclude all cases in conformance with defined global standards.
• Documenting control and process failures and escalating to functional owners for remediation.
• Reporting and tracking of process improvements.
• Ensure
  quality of data input into the Business Integrity reporting
  system.Reporting on Code case statistics to the General Counsel –
  Plantations.
• Informing the General Counsel – Plantations of any high-risk, reportable and/or WL2+ cases when these arise.

8. Incident response

• Ensure appropriate classification and review of compliance incidents.
• Preparation of position papers regarding any (Code) compliance concerns / challenges / questions received.

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GOVERNANCE
9. Additional Code Committee Support:

• Code Business Partner to the Country General Manager eTT and General Counsel – Plantations.
• Support the Business Integrity Committees in eTT with agendas, reports, minutes and follow-up.

10. Organization

• Point of contact for any Code related queries in eTT.
• Managing the eTT Business Integrity Roadmap.

Accountabilities on Legal matters

• From
  time to time the Business Integrity Officer eTT may be called upon to
  carry out legal duties including but not limited to provide legal
  advisory and attend to litigation e.t.c. on an ad hoc basis
• Experience required
• The
  candidate should have a degree in law (LLB Degree) with 2-3 years post
  qualification experience, out of which 1-2 years’ experience should
  involve compliance-related work.
• Call to Bar (Member of Tanganyika Law Society & have a current practicing certificate)
• Candidate
  should have a good grasp of relevant underlying legal frameworks,
  compliance, risk and business integrity issues. Training and support
  will be provided to develop areas of expertise.
• The ability to
  influence key stakeholders and to be an agent for change are essential
  in this role as is the ability to manage potentially sensitive and
  complex investigations.

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