Advisor/Assistant Director, Office of Internal Audit (OIA)

The Advisor/Assistant Director will be a member of the leadership team in OIA and will support the OIA Director and Assistant Director in overseeing the execution of OIA’s approved Program of Work, strategic, and other initiatives. The role involves providing strategic and technical oversight, managerial oversight to staff, and fostering collaboration on risk and control issues across the IMF.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical oversight and thought leadership in supporting the efficient execution and delivery of OIA’s approved Program of Work (PoW).
• Provide managerial oversight to OIA staff in the planning, execution, and delivery of OIA’s PoW.
• Coordinate the communication and presentation of OIA’s results and outputs to Management, External Audit Committee (EAC) and the Executive Board.
• Support the development of OIA’s PoW and engagement pipeline, working closely with Fund departmental counterparts.
• Foster efforts for collaboration on risk and control issues across the IMF through technical expertise, advocacy, and relationship management.
• Promote advancement of internal OIA initiatives relating to capacity and budget management, process streamlining, AI/digitalization, knowledge sharing, outreach, and dissemination.
• Support the advancement of the Office’s medium-term strategic priorities and objectives and contribute to other aspects of OIA’s activities and deliverables as needed.
• Support the development and reinforcement of OIA’s audit methodology and Quality Assurance and Improvement Program (QAIP).

Requirements

• Advanced university degree, or equivalent, and a professional certification either as an Accountant (CPA or international equivalent) or as an Auditor (CIA, CISA) supplemented by a minimum of fifteen (15) years of relevant work experience, including supervisory and/or managerial experience is required.
• Alternatively, a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, supplemented by a minimum of nineteen (19) years of relevant professional experience, including supervisory and/or managerial experience, is required.
• Demonstrated strengths in people management, including the ability to organize and delegate work, motivate, coach, and develop staff.
• Intellectual, technical, and strategic leadership, including contributing to the long-term strategy, leading strategic planning in work area, and translating strategic objectives into goals.
• Drive for results and contributing and championing innovation.
• Influencing, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Identifying and leveraging opportunities for synergy and partnership with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Utilizing complex quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources.

Skills

• Internal Audit
• Financial Auditing
• Risk Management
• Strategic Planning
• People Management
• Staff Development
• Quantitative Analysis
• Qualitative Analysis
• Program Oversight
• Leadership
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Innovation Management
• CPA Certification
• CIA Certification
• CISA Certification
• Supervision Experience
• Senior Managerial Experience
• Oral Communication
• Written Communication

Languages

English