Internal Audit Managers, P-4, Fixed-Term, Office of Internal Audit & Investigation (OIAI), New York #8475 & Nairobi

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 171,387 USD and 220,969 USD.

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, hope

The Office of Internal Audit and Investigations (OIAI) is an independent office reporting to UNICEF’s Executive Director and the Executive Board. It has two sections: The Internal Audit Section and the Investigations Section. The Audit team helps UNICEF fulfill its mission by providing independent and objective assurance and advisory services designed to add value and improve the adequacy, effectiveness and efficiency of UNICEF’s operations.

These positions are based in New York and Nairobi 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.

To learn more about our work, please follow this link.

How can you make a difference?

Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Audit, the Internal Audit Manager is responsible for leading teams, and occasionally assisting the Chief, in providing assurance and advisory services. The Internal Audit Manager will contribute to the continuous development of the Internal Audit Section through effective leadership, strong people management, and innovation of audit practices. The Manager ensures that all work conforms with the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing of the IIA. Internal audits accomplish OIAI’s mission by using a systematic, disciplined approach to assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of Organization’s governance, risk management and control processes.

Key Accountabilities

1. Engagement Management and Execution

• Establish and maintain productive working relationship client, 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.

2. Other Tasks

• Contribute to the development of internal audit workplan.

• Contribute to other activities as required by OIAI Management.

  To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, economics, accounting, risk management, information technology, or another 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 required.
• At least eight years of progressively responsible relevant professional experience in internal and/or external auditing in either government, non-profit organizations, and/or the private sector (with at least three years at international level) is required.
• Demonstrated experience of supervising staff is required.
• Experience of working in developing countries and international development is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to use Microsoft office suite including Excel and Power of BI, Electronic working paper software such as AutoAudit and TeamMate, Computer assisted audit techniques such as ACL and IDEA, Enterprise Resource Planning systems is considered as an advantage.
• Fluency in English is required. A working knowledge of another UN language is an advantage.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS).

UNICEF competencies required for these posts are…

1. Builds and maintains partnerships
2. Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
3. Drive to achieve results for impact
4. Innovates and embraces change
5. Manages ambiguity and complexity
6. Thinks and acts strategically
7. Works collaboratively with others

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels. Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.