Background information about the job or company (e.g., role context, company overview)

GiveDirectly is the first - and largest - nonprofit that lets donors like you send money directly to the world’s poorest. We believe people living in poverty deserve the dignity to choose for themselves how best to improve their lives - cash enables that choice.

Responsibilities or duties

What you’ll do:

Build and Execute GiveDirectly’s Corporate Audit Program

• Lead the design and implementation of a risk-based corporate audit plan, aligned with organizational priorities and the enterprise risk framework.
• Expand IA’s scope beyond field audits to include financial, operational, compliance, and governance reviews.
• Coordinate with the Senior Manager, Legal, Risk & Compliance to ensure risk data and control libraries inform audit planning.
• Conduct independent reviews of the design and effectiveness of internal controls across departments (Finance, HR, Legal, Operations, IT, Procurement, etc.).
• Manage end-to-end audits: scoping, fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up.

Provide Assurance and Insight

• Assess whether systems and processes are operating effectively and efficiently, in compliance with internal policy and external requirements.
• Identify control weaknesses, inefficiencies, and risks – and recommend actionable solutions.
• Partner with management to track remediation plans, ensuring audit findings are resolved and controls strengthened.
• Present concise, high-impact audit reports and recommendations to the Director of IA.

Strengthen Governance and Control Systems

• Partner with GLC and Finance to review organizational policies, processes, and control design.
• Provide independent assurance on critical areas such as:
  • Procurement and contract management
  • Data privacy and security
  • Financial management and reporting
  • Regulatory and donor compliance
  • Fraud prevention and ethics controls
• Identify opportunities to simplify and strengthen controls without creating bureaucracy.

Promote a Culture of Accountability and Learning

• Work collaboratively with departments to demystify audit – positioning it as a partner in improvement, not a punitive function.
• Support the development of audit readiness and control awareness across teams.
• Contribute to IA’s learning agenda by sharing insights, trends, and systemic lessons.

Conduct investigations

• Where necessary work with the IA team to undertake investigations when systems, processes or controls are found to have been violated
• Present findings of these investigations to Senior Leadership

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

What you’ll bring:

Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or certification (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA, ACCA) strongly preferred.
• 4-5 years of experience in internal audit, risk, compliance, or assurance — ideally within international NGOs, development organizations, or global enterprises.
• Proven experience designing or executing risk-based audits and evaluating internal controls across multiple functions.

• Lead the design and implementation of a risk-based corporate audit plan, aligned with organizational priorities and the enterprise risk framework.
• Expand IA’s scope beyond field audits to include financial, operational, compliance, and governance reviews.
• Coordinate with the Senior Manager, Legal, Risk & Compliance to ensure risk data and control libraries inform audit planning.
• Conduct independent reviews of the design and effectiveness of internal controls across departments (Finance, HR, Legal, Operations, IT, Procurement, etc.).
• Manage end-to-end audits: scoping, fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up.
• Assess whether systems and processes are operating effectively and efficiently, in compliance with internal policy and external requirements.
• Identify control weaknesses, inefficiencies, and risks – and recommend actionable solutions.
• Partner with management to track remediation plans, ensuring audit findings are resolved and controls strengthened.
• Present concise, high-impact audit reports and recommendations to the Director of IA.
• Partner with GLC and Finance to review organizational policies, processes, and control design.
• Provide independent assurance on critical areas such as: Procurement and contract management, Data privacy and security, Financial management and reporting, Regulatory and donor compliance, Fraud prevention and ethics controls
• Identify opportunities to simplify and strengthen controls without creating bureaucracy.
• Work collaboratively with departments to demystify audit – positioning it as a partner in improvement, not a punitive function.
• Support the development of audit readiness and control awareness across teams.
• Contribute to IA’s learning agenda by sharing insights, trends, and systemic lessons.
• Where necessary work with the IA team to undertake investigations when systems, processes or controls are found to have been violated
• Present findings of these investigations to Senior Leadership

• Emotional intelligence
• Problem solving
• Project management
• Follow-through
• Fostering inclusivity
• Risk-based audits
• Internal controls evaluation

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or certification (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA, ACCA) strongly preferred.
• 4-5 years of experience in internal audit, risk, compliance, or assurance — ideally within international NGOs, development organizations, or global enterprises.
• Proven experience designing or executing risk-based audits and evaluating internal controls across multiple functions.