Website UNICEF
This position is based in Budapest and require frequent and extended travels (up to four months per year) to UNICEF locations, often in difficult duty stations, outside of the duty station.
Key Accountabilities
Engagement Management and Execution
Establish and maintain productive working relationship with clients, ensuring that team members have prompt and adequate access to client personnel, relevant documentation, systems, and tools.
Lead all aspects of the planning of assigned audit and advisory engagements, including engagement-level risk assessment, selection of areas to focus on, determination of engagement objectives, scope, and programmes, identification of appropriate criteria for the assessment of the governance, risk management and controls relevant to the engagement.
Prepare risk-based audit plans/programmes for review and approval by the Chief, Internal Audit prior to fieldwork.
Provide direction and guidance to, and coach team members.
Lead execution of audit and advisory engagements, ensuring that team members are adequately supported and understand what is expected of them to achieve engagement objectives and client is promptly appraised of engagement status as well as issues as they are identified.
Monitor the team’s performance to ensure timely delivery of assurance and advisory services and conformance with the Code of Ethics and the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.
Review the working papers of team members, ensuring they are of high quality and adequately support achievement of all audit objectives in the approved risk-based engagement plan.
Perform engagement procedures and prepare documentation of work done for own scope areas, ensuring they are of high quality and adequately support achievement of the relevant audit objectives.
Ensure that observations developed by team members and for own scope areas are supported by adequate evidence.
Lead the presentation and discussion of engagement results with client.
Prepare high-quality draft engagement reports, reflecting inputs from team members and feedback from clients.
Lead by example and proactively address staff issues during the audit engagement and update the Chief, Internal Audit on people management issues.
Assess team members’ performance in an objective manner.
Other Tasks
Contribute to the development of internal audit workplan.
Contribute to other activities as required by OIAI Management
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Minimum requirements
Education: Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in business administration, finance, economics, accounting, risk management, information technology, or related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with at least ten years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. Professional accreditations such as Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) are an asset.
Work Experience: At least 8 years of relevant, progressively responsible professional experience in internal and/or external auditing or related fields in either government, non-profit organizations, and/or the private sector (with at least three years at international level) is required.
Skills: audit governance, risk management, analytical, problem solving, developing country experience.
Language Requirements : English – Proficient/Fluent
Desirables
Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
Experience with software and tools such as Power BI, AutoAudit / TeamMate, ACL / IDEA; and staff supervision/people management experience are considered assets.
Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.