Procurement Fraud Risk Management Training Course

Duration 10 days 16 modules · 65 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Procurement Managers, Procurement Officers and others
Fee from USD 2,200 KSh 190,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-FFC-044

Before you join: Participants should have practical familiarity with procurement, finance, internal controls, compliance, audit or contract management.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

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Course overview

Procurement fraud can arise at every point from supplier selection to payment: conflicts of interest, bid rigging, tailored specifications, fictitious suppliers, inflated invoices, contract variations and approval bypasses. These schemes produce direct financial loss, poor-quality delivery, regulatory exposure and damaged supplier confidence. Control failures are often dispersed across procurement, finance, contract management, compliance and internal audit, making individual red flags difficult to assess in isolation.

This course equips participants to identify, assess and treat procurement fraud risks using structured risk assessment, source-to-pay process mapping, fraud scenario analysis, supplier due diligence, tender controls, contract-payment controls and data analytics. Participants learn to build risk and control matrices, assess bid-rigging indicators, test supplier-master and payment data, investigate allegations, preserve evidence and report remediation actions. The course also addresses governance, speak-up channels, anti-bribery controls, control testing and continuous monitoring.

Teaching combines short instructor briefings with realistic cases, group analysis, control-design work, investigation simulations and application planning. Participants progressively develop components of a procurement fraud risk management plan throughout the course, beginning with process maps and fraud scenarios in the first week. They leave with a completed, reviewed and presented plan containing a risk register, control framework, analytics tests, escalation routes and implementation priorities. The 10-day programme provides approximately 65 contact hours, is available in classroom delivery in 50+ cities or live online, and includes a certificate of completion.

The course suits procurement, finance, compliance, internal audit and investigations professionals who need to prevent, detect or respond to fraud within purchasing, contracting and supplier-payment activities.

What you will be able to do

  • Map source-to-pay fraud exposures using process walkthroughs and fraud typologies
  • Construct a procurement fraud risk register using likelihood, impact and control maturity scoring
  • Design preventive and detective controls for supplier onboarding, tendering, contracting and payment
  • Assess supplier integrity using risk-based due diligence and beneficial ownership checks
  • Detect bid-rigging, conflicts of interest and payment anomalies using defined indicators
  • Apply data-analytics tests to supplier, purchase order, invoice and payment data
  • Plan procurement fraud investigations using evidence preservation, PEACE interviews and escalation protocols
  • Present a procurement fraud risk management plan with accountable remediation actions

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Ability to identify procurement fraud schemes before losses escalate
  • Practical risk-assessment methods for source-to-pay processes
  • Confidence challenging weak tender, supplier and payment controls
  • Reusable analytics tests for invoice and supplier-master reviews
  • Investigation planning skills for allegations involving procurement personnel or suppliers

For your organisation

  • Earlier identification of bid rigging, conflicts and supplier-payment fraud
  • Better documented fraud risks, control owners and remediation priorities
  • Stronger supplier due diligence and beneficial ownership screening
  • More effective monitoring of tender, contract and payment exceptions
  • Clearer investigation, escalation and audit-committee reporting arrangements

Course modules

16 modules over 10 days

Participants can identify major procurement fraud schemes and map them to source-to-pay control points.

  • Procurement fraud typologies: bid rigging, kickbacks, conflicts and false invoicing
  • Map source-to-pay control points against common fraud schemes
  • ACFE Fraud Triangle applied to procurement pressure, opportunity and rationalisation
  • Distinguish error, misconduct, corruption and competition-law violations using evidence
  • Assess direct loss, overpricing, quality failures and reputational exposure
  • Define fraud risk appetite, tolerance thresholds and escalation triggers

Participants can document procurement processes and construct a risk and control matrix.

  • Document procure-to-pay processes using swimlanes, owners, systems and handoffs
  • Identify control objectives for requisition, tender, award, receipt and payment
  • Construct a risk and control matrix from process walkthroughs
  • Separate preventive, detective and corrective controls by failure point
  • Test segregation of duties across supplier master-data and payment roles
  • Record control owners, frequencies, evidence and residual-risk ratings

Participants can score procurement fraud scenarios and prioritise treatment actions.

  • Score inherent risk using likelihood, impact, velocity and control maturity
  • Calibrate five-by-five matrices with defined rating criteria and evidence
  • Prioritise fraud scenarios through heat maps and treatment decisions
  • Set key risk indicators with thresholds, owners and review cycles
  • Link risk assessments to annual procurement planning and audit plans
  • Draft a procurement fraud risk register with accountable actions

Participants can define governance arrangements and policy controls for procurement fraud management.

  • Assign board, audit committee and management responsibilities under COSO principles
  • Structure three-lines roles for procurement, compliance, finance and internal audit
  • Establish fraud reporting routes, case ownership and decision rights
  • Apply ISO 37001 anti-bribery controls to procurement activities
  • Define conflict-of-interest declarations, recusals and approval requirements
  • Maintain policy exceptions, waivers and emergency-procurement authorisations

Participants can design risk-based supplier due diligence and periodic review procedures.

  • Build supplier due-diligence tiers using spend, geography, ownership and services
  • Verify beneficial ownership through registries, declarations and adverse-media screening
  • Screen sanctions, politically exposed persons and debarment lists before onboarding
  • Evaluate supplier integrity questionnaires against corroborating documentary evidence
  • Flag shell-company indicators, undisclosed relationships and unusual incorporation details
  • Set periodic review triggers for high-risk suppliers and intermediaries

Participants can identify conflicts and collusion indicators during procurement activities.

  • Detect undisclosed employee-supplier relationships through declarations and data matching
  • Recognise bid-rigging patterns: cover bids, rotation, suppression and market allocation
  • Apply OECD bid-rigging indicators during tender design and evaluation
  • Compare bidder metadata, pricing patterns and submission timestamps
  • Document recusals, evaluation-panel independence and confidential-information control records
  • Escalate suspected collusion without contaminating evidence or procurement competition

Participants can design tender controls that reduce manipulation and favouritism risks.

  • Design specifications that prevent tailoring toward preferred suppliers
  • Use open, restricted and single-source procedures with documented justification
  • Set evaluation criteria, weightings and scoring guidance before publication
  • Control bidder communications through formal clarifications and audit trails
  • Require independent technical, commercial and compliance evaluations
  • Review tender amendments for scope changes and competition effects

Participants can assess fraud controls from contract approval through invoice payment.

  • Validate contract authority, delegated limits and approval-route compliance
  • Match purchase orders, goods receipts and invoices using three-way matching
  • Monitor change orders for splitting, price escalation and scope creep
  • Test milestone acceptance evidence before releasing progress payments
  • Reconcile contract ceilings, committed spend and invoice totals
  • Investigate duplicate invoices, inflated quantities and unsupported variations

Participants can apply basic analytics tests to procurement and payment data.

  • Prepare spend data by standardising supplier names, dates and identifiers
  • Apply Benford's Law cautiously to invoice amounts and payment data
  • Run duplicate-payment tests using invoice numbers, amounts and bank accounts
  • Identify split purchases below approval thresholds through sequence analysis
  • Visualise supplier concentration and related-party links with network analysis
  • Build exception rules for weekend payments, round amounts and overrides

Participants can prioritise analytical alerts and document defensible review conclusions.

  • Join purchase, invoice, payment and supplier-master files using unique keys
  • Profile missing values, outliers and invalid supplier-master fields
  • Rank alerts using risk scores, materiality and repeat occurrences
  • Distinguish analytical indicators from evidence sufficient for an allegation
  • Design case queues, triage criteria and investigator handoffs
  • Document reproducible tests, data limitations and review conclusions

Participants can recognise transaction patterns associated with common procurement fraud schemes.

  • Recognise kickback indicators in pricing, specifications and supplier selection
  • Assess false invoicing schemes involving fictitious vendors and duplicate billing
  • Spot receipt fraud through quantity discrepancies and acceptance anomalies
  • Analyse emergency purchasing for recurring urgency and approval bypasses
  • Identify subcontracting opacity, commission risks and intermediary red flags
  • Formulate focused questions from transaction patterns and policy deviations

Participants can plan proportionate procurement fraud investigations while protecting evidence and fairness.

  • Plan allegations using scope, hypotheses, legal constraints and preservation needs
  • Preserve documents, emails and system logs with chain-of-custody records
  • Conduct procurement interviews using PEACE planning and non-accusatory questioning
  • Separate fact finding from disciplinary, regulatory and criminal determinations
  • Maintain investigation files, privilege protocols and need-to-know access
  • Refer matters to counsel, regulators or law enforcement appropriately

Participants can report procurement fraud matters and track remedial actions to closure.

  • Write allegation summaries distinguishing facts, inferences and unresolved questions
  • Quantify loss using overpayment, avoided competition and recovery calculations
  • Recommend remedial controls against documented root causes and failure modes
  • Track management actions with owners, due dates and validation evidence
  • Prepare audit-committee reporting with trends, cases and overdue actions
  • Protect whistleblowers through confidentiality, non-retaliation and reporting protocols

Participants can establish targeted awareness and reporting arrangements for procurement personnel.

  • Design targeted fraud-awareness messages for buyers, approvers and receiving staff
  • Use behavioural prompts to reinforce declarations, challenge and escalation
  • Establish protected reporting channels and case-intake service standards
  • Measure speak-up culture through surveys, reporting patterns and response times
  • Address retaliation risks through monitoring, intervention and documented consequences
  • Align incentives, procurement targets and control-accountability measures

Participants can plan assurance activities and continuous monitoring for procurement fraud risks.

  • Develop a control-testing plan using samples, populations and evidence criteria
  • Set continuous-monitoring routines for supplier changes, payments and tender exceptions
  • Define KRIs and KPIs for fraud risk reporting
  • Schedule reassessments after incidents, mergers, system changes and market shocks
  • Coordinate internal audit, compliance and procurement assurance activities
  • Review residual-risk movement and revise treatment plans quarterly

Participants can build, review and present a complete procurement fraud risk management plan.

  • Consolidate process maps, fraud scenarios and control gaps into one assessment
  • Prioritise supplier, tender, contract and payment risks with scoring rationale
  • Specify due diligence, tender and payment controls with accountable owners
  • Create data-analytics tests, alert thresholds and investigation triage routes
  • Present remediation priorities, implementation milestones and assurance measures
  • Defend recommendations against challenge from procurement, finance and audit leaders

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Procurement fraud risk register template
  2. Source-to-pay risk and control matrix
  3. Supplier due-diligence tiering model
  4. Tender integrity and bid-rigging checklist
  5. Procurement data-analytics test library
  6. Procurement fraud risk management plan

Who should attend

  • Procurement Managers — responsible for tender integrity, supplier selection and purchasing controls
  • Procurement Officers — need practical methods for identifying and escalating fraud indicators
  • Internal Auditors — test source-to-pay controls and investigate control failures
  • Compliance and Ethics Managers — oversee anti-bribery, conflicts and reporting arrangements
  • Finance Managers — manage invoice, payment and supplier-master fraud exposures
  • Fraud Investigators — assess allegations involving suppliers, buyers and contract activity

Skills and tools covered

Fraud risk assessmentSupplier due diligenceTender integrity controlsProcurement data analyticsFraud investigation planningControl remediation

Tools and standards

COSO Fraud Risk Management Guide, ISO 37001 Anti-bribery Management Systems, ACFE Fraud Triangle, OECD Guidelines for Fighting Bid Rigging

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short technical briefings followed by case analysis, facilitated discussion, group control-design tasks, transaction-review simulations and application planning. Participants work with procurement scenarios involving supplier onboarding, tender evaluation, contract changes, invoices and payment data. They assess fraud indicators, build risk and control matrices, prioritise alerts and prepare investigation responses. Instructor feedback focuses on evidence, decision criteria, control practicality and clear documentation. Each participant develops material that can be adapted for use within their own procurement function.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have practical familiarity with procurement, finance, internal controls, compliance, audit or contract management. They should understand basic purchasing documents such as requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, contracts and approval records. Experience reviewing transactions, suppliers or control evidence is useful. The course assumes participants can interpret simple spreadsheets and discuss workplace cases professionally. Prior fraud investigation experience, advanced data-analysis skills, legal qualifications, accounting certification or knowledge of a particular procurement system are not required.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should understand basic procurement or finance processes and common documents such as purchase orders, contracts and invoices. No prior fraud investigation, legal or advanced analytics experience is required.

Participants may bring anonymised examples of their procurement policies, risk registers, approval matrices or recurring control concerns. A laptop is useful for reviewing course materials and completing data-based activities.

The course is designed for procurement, finance, compliance, internal audit and investigation professionals. It is particularly relevant to staff responsible for supplier onboarding, tendering, contract management, payment controls or fraud reporting.

General anti-fraud courses usually address organisation-wide misconduct and investigation concepts. This course concentrates on source-to-pay processes, supplier relationships, tender manipulation, contract fraud, payment anomalies and procurement-specific controls.

Participants leave with a procurement fraud risk management plan that can be adapted to their employer's processes. The templates support risk assessments, supplier reviews, tender controls, analytics testing, investigations and remediation tracking.

The programme provides approximately 65 contact hours, normally delivered from 08:30 to 16:30 each day. Early modules establish risk, control and due-diligence foundations; later modules focus on analytics, investigations, monitoring and the final plan presentation.

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