Chief of Service, Audit

The Chief of Service leads the Headquarters Audit Service within the Internal Audit Division of the Office of Internal Oversight Services. The role involves managing the audit work programme and resources, developing risk-based audit plans, ensuring efficient execution of audits, and fostering collaborative relationships to enhance audit impact across the United Nations entities.

Responsibilities

• Develops an annual risk-based audit plan for the activities managed by the Service.
• Manages the execution of the annual audit plan, ensuring the efficient utilization of the human and financial resources of the Service, in accordance with approved audit work plans and budgets, OIOS policies and procedures, and the Internal Standards for the Professional Practice of internal auditing followed by OIOS.
• Leads 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.
• Assists the Director, IAD with establishing operating guidelines, internal audit manuals, lines of authority and communicating work objectives and priorities of reporting.
• Establish effective collaborative relationships between the Service and client entities to increase the relevance and impact of the Service's outputs.
• Identify resource requirements for the Service for inclusion in OIOS' staffing strategies and budget requests.
• Represent the Service within the United Nations and other organizations as requested by the Director, IAD.
• Carry out other tasks as may be assigned by the Director, IAD to ensure the efficient and effective implementation of IAD work programmes.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in auditing, finance, business administration, accounting or closely related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of 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.
• Professional certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), or equivalent is desirable.
• A minimum of fifteen years of progressively responsible experience in auditing of which at least 5 years must be at the management level, is required.
• Experience in field operations is desirable.
• Experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
• English is required.
• Either French or Spanish or Chinese (Mandarin) or Arabic or Russian is desirable.

Skills

• Auditing
• Audit Management
• Risk-Based Audit Planning
• Data Analytics
• Business Analytics
• Financial Auditing
• Internal Audit
• Audit Work Programme Development
• Certified Public Accountant
• Chartered Accountant
• Certified Internal Auditor
• Field Operations Experience
• Audit Execution
• Resource Management

Languages

English, French, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic, Russian