Responsibilities or duties

The incumbent will be responsible for the following duties:

• Oversees annual risk assessment of a portfolio of clients and ensures risk registers are kept current.
• Develops and implements the Section’s medium and long-term goals and objectives, and related annual audit work plans.
• Plans, organizes, directs and coordinates the activities of teams conducting multiple concurrent engagements.
• Manages the human and financial resources of the Section.
• Defines the broad objectives and scope for each audit/advisory engagement.
• Provides direction and leadership with respect to all phases of each audit/advisory engagement with a view to ensuring that OIOS standards and global internal audit are complied with and that audit/review objectives are achieved within budget.
• Reviews working papers and engagement communications (e.g., audit and advisory reports).
• Empowers/challenges staff to assume more responsibility.
• Provides guidance to audit staff on technical and administrative matters.
• Leads audits/ advisory engagements of a sensitive and complex nature.
• Analyses guidelines and standards for internal audit activities and ensures consistency of approach and adequacy of practice of subordinate auditors. Leads team members efforts to collect and analyze data and provides insight to identify trends or patterns for data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting. Ensures that everyone can discover, access, integrate and share the data they need.
• Comments on and recommends improvements in, or reviews proposed changes to, administrative issuances including the financial rules of the Organization.
• Monitors the status of implementation of audit recommendations.
• Liaises with internal audit functions of other United Nations organizations.
• Establishes and maintains a positive relationship with auditees and other oversight bodies.
• Carries out other tasks as may be assigned by the Service Chief or Director of IAD.

Work implies frequent interaction with the following:

• Staff at all levels throughout the Organization
• Government officials
• Senior management of other Organizations
• Chief Technical Advisers, experts and consultants
• Counterparts in sister organizations
• Professional organizations

Results Expected:

Independently responsible for overall planning, development, management and supervision of assurance and advisory engagements to a portfolio of clients and management of assigned staff with complex audit operations and issues.

Education

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.

Work 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.

• Oversees annual risk assessment of a portfolio of clients and ensures risk registers are kept current.
• Develops and implements the Section’s medium and long-term goals and objectives, and related annual audit work plans.
• Plans, organizes, directs and coordinates the activities of teams conducting multiple concurrent engagements.
• Manages the human and financial resources of the Section.
• Defines the broad objectives and scope for each audit/advisory engagement.
• Provides direction and leadership with respect to all phases of each audit/advisory engagement with a view to ensuring that OIOS standards and global internal audit are complied with and that audit/review objectives are achieved within budget.
• Reviews working papers and engagement communications (e.g., audit and advisory reports).
• Empowers/challenges staff to assume more responsibility.
• Provides guidance to audit staff on technical and administrative matters.
• Leads audits/ advisory engagements of a sensitive and complex nature.
• Analyses guidelines and standards for internal audit activities and ensures consistency of approach and adequacy of practice of subordinate auditors. Leads team members efforts to collect and analyze data and provides insight to identify trends or patterns for data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting. Ensures that everyone can discover, access, integrate and share the data they need.
• Comments on and recommends improvements in, or reviews proposed changes to, administrative issuances including the financial rules of the Organization.
• Monitors the status of implementation of audit recommendations.
• Liaises with internal audit functions of other United Nations organizations.
• Establishes and maintains a positive relationship with auditees and other oversight bodies.
• Carries out other tasks as may be assigned by the Service Chief or Director of IAD.

• Analysis of complete and complex sets of data to identify anomalies and trends using contemporary data analytics tools

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, accounting or related field
• 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