Regional Audit Manager at World Vision International

Key Responsibilities
*Location: Arusha, Tanzania
*Please submit your CV and cover letter in English.

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 RESPONSIBILITIES
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)

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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