CHIEF OF SECTION, AUDIT, P5

Overview

Oversee the Internal Audit Division's Headquarters Audit Section, providing assurance and advisory services to United Nations entities. The role involves managing audit engagements, human and financial resources, and ensuring compliance with OIOS standards.

Tasks Summary

• Oversee annual risk assessment of clients and ensure risk registers are current.
• Develop and implement the Section’s medium and long-term goals, objectives, and annual audit work plans.
• Plan, organize, direct, and coordinate teams conducting multiple concurrent engagements.
• Manage the human and financial resources of the Section.
• Define broad objectives and scope for each audit/advisory engagement.
• Provide direction and leadership for all phases of audit/advisory engagements.
• Review working papers and engagement communications.
• Empower and challenge staff to assume more responsibility.
• Provide guidance to audit staff on technical and administrative matters.
• Lead sensitive and complex audits/advisory engagements.
• Analyze guidelines and standards for internal audit activities and ensure consistency of approach.
• Lead team efforts to collect and analyze data for planning, decision-making, presentation, and reporting.
• Comment on and recommend improvements to administrative issuances.
• Monitor the status of implementation of audit recommendations.
• Liaise with internal audit functions of other United Nations organizations.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with auditees and other oversight bodies.
• Carry out other assigned functional tasks.

Experience Requirements

• A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible professional experience in audit, finance, accounting, or administration.
• Five years’ experience in audit management.
• Five years’ experience of drafting audit reports.
• Three years’ experience reviewing audit reports.
• Five years’ experience in managing a diverse group of professionals.
• Experience in analysis of complete and complex sets of data to identify anomalies and trends using contemporary data analytics tools.

Qualification Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, accounting, or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics, or data science programs is an advantage.

Other Details

Languages Required: English is required.

Languages Preferred: French is desirable. Arabic is desirable. Spanish is desirable. Chinese (Mandarin) is desirable. Russian is desirable.

Contract Duration: Appointment or assignment is for an initial period of one year.

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