Auditor Consultant

The Auditor Consultant will carry out audits of UNESCO's activities at Headquarters and field locations to assess governance, risk management, and internal control arrangements. The role involves planning audit missions, performing audit tests, and preparing reports on systemic issues related to UNESCO's programmes and operations.

Responsibilities

• Plan audit missions in coordination with IOS/AUD team.
• Perform and document assigned audit tests.
• Prepare reports on systemic issues or other analysis/data statistics related to UNESCO’s programmes and operations.
• Conduct interviews as part of audit processes.
• Conduct targeted testing as per the workplan.
• Review information systems to determine adequacy of protection, reliability and management.
• Review financial transactions and performance data for accuracy and compliance with UNESCO’s regulations, rules, and policies.
• Assess the overall control environment.
• Appraise the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of programmes and administrative/support functions.
• Analyse results of testing and interviews and develop appropriate conclusions and recommendations.
• Draft audit findings for final clearance by the audit team leader.
• Monitor follow-up actions taken in response to audit recommendations.

Requirements

• University degree (Masters’ degree or equivalent training) in Auditing, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Data Science or other related fields.
• At least 3 years of professional experience in auditing and/or accounting.
• Excellent analytical skills, ability to collect, synthesise and analyse information.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to deal with clients on complex and sensitive matters.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) skills, including the ability to prepare, present and discuss findings and recommendations clearly and concisely.
• Ability to work in a team and to maintain effective working relationships in a multicultural environment.
• Good IT skills, in particular of MS365 and MS Suite (PowerPoint, Word, Excel and PowerBI).
• Good knowledge of risk management principles.
• Thorough knowledge of Internal Control methods, tools and techniques.
• Excellent knowledge of English or French and good knowledge of the other language.
• Previous experience in the conduct of audits with a UN organization, international financial institution, international commercial organization and/or international public accounting firm.
• Work experience in developing countries and the development sector.
• Work experience in data management and/or data visualisation.
• Work experience leveraging AI-powered tools (e.g., Copilot) to enhance audit efficiency, analytics, or reporting.
• Knowledge of TeamMate+ and other audit systems.
• Knowledge of programming language Python, VBA, SQL.
• Familiarity with generative AI tools and prompt engineering techniques to support audit planning, data analysis, and report drafting.
• Experience applying AI/machine learning tools for risk assessment, anomaly detection, or audit sampling.
• Certification from an internationally recognized accountancy body or internal audit certification.
• Experience in developing Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme.
• General knowledge of UN system policies, rules, regulations and procedures.
• Knowledge of another official language of UNESCO (Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and/or Russian).

Skills

• Auditing
• Accounting
• Analytical Skills
• Client Relations
• Report Writing
• Team Collaboration
• MS365
• Power Point
• Word
• Excel
• Power BI
• Risk Management
• Internal Controls
• Audit Systems
• TeamMate+
• Python Programming
• VBA Programming
• SQL Programming
• Data Management
• Data Visualization
• AI Tools Usage
• Generative AI
• Prompt Engineering
• Machine Learning
• Quality Assurance
• Internal Audit Certification
• UN policies knowledge

Languages

English, French