Regional Audit Manager at World Vision

Regional Audit Manager at World Vision 

World Vision Tanzania (WVT)

Arusha

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JOB PURPOSE.

The Regional Audit Manager (RAM) for East Africa Region supports the Senior Regional Audit Manager (SRAM) and the Regional Audit Director (RAD) in providing leadership to a team of Regional Senior Auditors (RSA) and Regional Auditors (RA) in the National Office (NO) portfolio assigned within East Africa Region, in the provision of independent objective assurance and advisory on the portfolio’s operations.

He/she is responsible for reviewing the audit work of the Regional Audit team, including issuance of audit reports to the respective NO portfolio Senior Leadership and to the Audit committees, as applicable.

The RAM has a direct reporting line to the RAD with a dotted reporting line to the Local ARCs / National Director. In some jurisdictions, it is a legislative requirement for SRAM to report to the local ARCs. In these cases, this will be applied.

He/she leads GAA’s services across a portfolio of offices within East Africa Region, covering two National Offices with a cumulated annual revenue of approximately USD 57M, ensuring that GAA delivers on its mandate to “enhance and protect the organisational value and assist WVI to accomplish its objectives by providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice, and insight to improve the effectiveness of WVI governance, risk management and internal control processes”.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES

Leadership, Planning and Communication.

Provide insight and pragmatic, forward-looking recommendations to key stakeholders including National Leadership and Local Boards on matters related to risk management, internal controls and governance, and actively supports in managing critical risks that can impact the achievement of Organisational Strategy;
Present quarterly to the NO Leadership and the local Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) on audit results, providing strategic insights and key trend analyses.
Play a key advisory role on the local ARCs and other Regional or National committees and forums as delegated by the RAD.
Supervision of a team of RSA and RA within the assigned portfolio, including:
Support to the SRAM and the RAD in developing a five-year risk-based regional internal audit plan in consultation with the Global, Regional and National Leadership, and present this to the local Audit and Risk Committees (ARC) in the regional portfolio and GAA leadership annually for approval;
Support in the preparation of the GAA Regional Audit Team’s annual budgets, ensuring concurrence by National Leadership and approval by local ARCs, and monitoring the fair-share charges to those offices are accurate and timely;
Oversee Talent Management initiatives for the Regional Audit Team, including recruitment, promotion, remuneration/ compensation, staff training, development and well-being for his/her own portfolio.
Develop across the team a strong understanding of all World Vision International (WVI)’s operations, the strategic risks (internal and external) that threaten the organisation’s achievement of its strategy and key objectives;
Oversee engagement supervision activities to ensure the quality of the internal audit activity within the sub-regional portfolio
Play a key role in developing and rolling out WVI’s combined assurance model in collaboration with other internal and external assurance providers (e.g. Legal, ERM and donor auditors);
Provide support to the Investigations unit of GAA to investigate fraud allegations and unethical conduct;
Play an active role in Regional Investigations Oversight Committee (hotline reporting) for NO within assigned portfolio, ensuring that reported cases are thoroughly reviewed, discussed and resolved to mitigate risks and losses to the organization.

Promote and Ensure GAA Regional Team’s High Performance.

Supervise and oversee day-to-day operations of the audit team
Sub-regional leadership and oversight on the design, implementation and continuous improvement of the GAA Regional Teams’ performance framework to ensure the teams deliver on all aspects of a professional risk-based internal audit function in line with evolving best practice and with the Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS), the Code of Ethics, GAA Charter and WVI’s policies and procedures;
Continually enhance GAA’s ability to conduct both assurance and advisory reviews to add value and improve the organisation’s operations while considering the organisation’s key initiatives and strategic direction.
Drive stakeholder relationships and communication and recommend/implement actions to achieve improvements; evaluate the advocacy efforts of the internal audit activity and determine key performance indicators to evaluate the success of the internal audit activity;

Promote and Ensure High Quality Assurance & Advisory Standards.

Evaluate and communicate to Regional/National Leadership through the RAD and the local ARCs the collective outcomes of engagements and follow-ups performed by the internal audit activity. Assess the impact of residual risk; communicate management’s acceptance of risk to Senior Management and the Board;
Recommend improvements to the organisation’s Field Office governance policies, processes, structures, overall control environment, risk management strategy, strategic planning process, organisational behaviour, performance management measures and techniques and recommend actions to address risks related to the organisation’s business processes;
Maintain and promote the highest conformance and ethical standards for GAA;
Implement and continually improve the monitoring, follow-up and reporting of audit finding remediation.
Drive Innovation

Continually drive and assess innovation/ improvement in GAA Regional Team’s written and verbal communication skills, soft skills, and projects.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, TRAINING, LICENSE, REGISTRATION, AND/OR CERTIFICATION.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or relevant field; MBA is a plus;
• CPA and/or Chartered Financial Accountant or equivalent;
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• At least five (5) years of internal audit or external experience three (3) of which should be at a managerial level.
• Proven track record of relationship building at the senior level (Executive leadership and Boards)
• Proven experience in risk-based internal audit;
• The ability to think strategically, make sense of complexity and apply “systems thinking”.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of functional linkages.
• Ability to interact with and/or manage cross-functional teams (Operations/Finance);
• Effectively and independently lead diverse teams for success
• Strong commitment to quality and consistency of work, and continuously drive improvements
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills in English, excellent soft skills, and ability to motivate and influence all levels of management;
• Solid interpersonal skills, including listening, relationship building and the ability to influence at the highest levels in the organisation.
• Excellent MS Office skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio)

REQUIRED TRAVEL AND/OR WORK ENVIRONMENT ACCOMMODATIONS

• The position is for Tanzania nationals only and is to be based in Arusha
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 40% of the time.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND/OR OTHER QUALIFICATIONS.

• Cross-cultural experience in INGOs, experience in using Audit Software, Embedded Audit
• Tools/Techniques, Strategy Implementation
• Basic IT Audit and Fraud Investigation (CFE is a plus)
• Data mining & analytics, including financial and trend analysis

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only

How to Apply:

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