Chief Of Section, Audit, P5

Responsibilities

With delegated authority, the incumbent will be responsible for the following duties:

• Oversee annual risk assessment of a portfolio of clients and ensures risk registers are kept current.
• Develop and implement the Section’s medium and long-term goals and objectives, and related annual audit work plans.
• Plan, organize, direct and coordinate the activities of teams conducting multiple concurrent engagements.
• Manage the human and financial resources of the Section.
• Define the broad objectives and scope for each audit/advisory engagement.
• Provide 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.
• Review working papers and engagement communications (e.g., audit and advisory reports).
• Empower/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 and adequacy of practice of subordinate auditors.
• Lead 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. Ensure that everyone can discover, access, integrate and share the data they need.
• Comment on and recommend improvements in, or reviews proposed changes to, administrative issuances including the financial rules of the Organization.
• Monitor the status of implementation of audit recommendations.
• Liaise with internal audit functions of other United Nations organizations.
• Establish and maintain a positive relationship with auditees and other oversight bodies.
• Carry out other functional tasks as may be assigned by the Service Chief or Director of IAD.

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.

Job - Specific Qualification

• Certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified International Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or equivalent is desirable.

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.