AUDITOR - Temporary Job Opening, P4

The Auditor position is located in the Headquarters Audit Section of the Internal Audit Division in the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) in New York. The role involves leading audits and special reviews, supervising staff, preparing risk-based audits, and ensuring compliance with auditing standards and organizational policies.

Responsibilities

• Leads audits/special reviews with respect to large and complex operations, including task allocation, coordination, monitoring, and consolidation of results.
• Prepares risk-based audits/reviews and plans/programmes in accordance with OIOS standards.
• Supervises and coaches staff throughout the audit/review to ensure conformity with OIOS standards.
• Empowers and challenges junior staff to actively participate in audit/review management.
• Documents, evaluates and tests systems and controls for adequacy and effectiveness, ensuring compliance with policies and procedures, accomplishment of management’s objectives, reliability and integrity of information, economical use of resources, and safeguarding of assets.
• Prepares working papers for review by Senior Auditor/Section Chief or Chief of Service of IAD.
• Develops and discusses findings, agrees on recommendations and timelines for corrective action, and monitors implementation status.
• Drafts audit or assignment reports for organization-wide consumption including senior management and the General Assembly.
• Prepares presentations using technology tools such as PowerPoint.
• Makes presentations of audit results to senior management of IAD and audited operations.
• Monitors the status of audit recommendations and appraises adequacy of follow-up actions.
• Maintains and updates audit programs.
• Identifies training needs, develops training programs and materials, and conducts workshops on auditing approaches and techniques.
• Evaluates staff performance and performs management review of work performed by assistant auditors prior to Chief of Section’s review.
• Performs other related duties as determined by Senior Auditor/Section Chief or Chief of Service.
• Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, finance, accounting or 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.
• Certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or equivalent is desirable.
• A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible professional experience in audit, finance, accounting, administration, statistics, computer science or related area is required.
• Audit experience is required.
• Experience in analysis of complete sets of data to identify anomalies and trends is required.
• Experience in using data analytics tools such as IDEA, ACL, and Excel for analysis of entire populations of data is required.
• Experience in public sector auditing is desirable.
• English is required.
• Either French or Chinese (Mandarin) or Spanish or Russian or Arabic is desirable.

Skills

• Audit Experience
• Data Analytics
• Business Analytics
• Data Science
• Certified Public Accountant
• Chartered Accountant
• Certified Internal Auditor
• Certified Fraud Examiner
• Financial Analysis
• Accounting
• Risk-Based Auditing
• Data Analysis
• IDEA
• ACL
• Excel
• Public Sector Accounting
• Audit Supervision
• Compliance Audits

Languages

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