Overview
Oversees the African Audit Section, Internal Audit Division, providing assurance and advisory services to United Nations entities. The role involves managing audit engagements, human and financial resources, and ensuring compliance with audit standards.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 activities of 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 audits/advisory engagements of a sensitive and complex nature.
- Analyze guidelines and standards for internal audit activities and ensures consistency of approach.
- Lead team members in data collection and analysis to identify trends.
- 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 functional tasks as assigned.
Required Experience
- A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible professional experience in audit, finance, accounting, administration or related area is required.
- Five years’ experience in audit management is required.
- Five years’ experience of drafting audit reports is required.
- Three years’ experience reviewing audit reports is required.
- Five years’ experience in managing a diverse group of professionals is required.
- Experience in analysis of complete and complex sets of data to identify anomalies and trends using contemporary data analytics tools is required.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, accounting or 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.
