Historique
Devoirs et responsabilités
- Establish and maintain UN Women’s Quality Management System introducing structure and processes. Quality management system will support application of UN Women’s operational policies and procedures and receive audit results as an input for necessary quality enhancement actions.
- Monitors application of the quality systems to ensure that it is operational.
- Recommends and updates operational policies and contents to ensure UN Women’s operational standards effectively support UN Women operations based on lessons learned in coordination with the programme support division.
- Provide input to UNW systems development, programme/project implementation and learning and knowledge sharing strategies.
- Coordination and preparation of Executive Board papers on the external audit of UN Women
- Coordination and preparation of UN Women response to reports, management letters and observations from the UN board of auditors as well as UN Joint Inspections Unit.
- Coordination and support to UN Women internal audits conducted by UNDP’s Office of Audit and Investigation.
- Coordinate and support pre-audit missions to field offices.
- Systematic follow up and support implementation of recommendations of internal and external audits.
- Serves as a focal point for UN Women Advisory Committee; Support the AAC work.
- Builds and maintains close working relations with UN Women Internal and External Auditors managers.
- Contributes to workshops and training on risk management, internal controls and audit.
- Disseminates lessons learned from UN Women audits.
- Participates in the implementation of his/her personal learning and training development plan.
- Performs any other tasks as requested by the Director or the Deputy Director.
- Enhance staff capacity and skills of the staff through coaching, training, mentoring and other innovative measures.
- Work with UN Women offices on audit planning/preparation and follow up, providing technical support and advice on critical audit areas ,corrective measures, and risks mitigation strategies.
- Share knowledge across the organization on audit findings, business practices and processes improvements to enhance operational effectiveness and efficiency, transparency and accountability.
Compétences
- Ethics and Values: Promoting Ethics and Integrity / Creating Organizational Precedents.
- Organizational Awareness: Building support and political acumen.
- Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring: Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation.
- Working in Teams: Building and promoting effective teams.
- Communicating Information and Ideas: Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication.
- Self-management and Emotional intelligence: Creating an emotionally intelligent organization.
- Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements: Leveraging conflict in the interests of the organization & setting standards.
- Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning: Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning.
- Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making: Fair and transparent decision making; calculated risk-taking.
- An in-depth grasp of audit principles and practice.
- Demonstrated ability to advise on and coordinate audits of headquarters and Country Office business units, internal audits, and performance (value for money) audits.
- Ability to establish priorities and to plan, coordinate and monitor work plans.
- Proven conceptual analytical and evaluative skills and ability to conduct independent research and analysis, identifying issues, formulating options and making conclusions and recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective work relationships with counterparts and other staff/offices.
- Ability to communicate technical audit matters in a simple and clear manner.
- Focuses on impact and results for the client and responds positively to feedback.
- Shows strong conflict-resolution skills.
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude.
- Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities.
Qualifications et expériences requises
- Masters degree (or equivalent) in Business Administration, Public Administration, Finance, or related field. A first level degree in combination with a certification as Chartered Accountant or Certified Public Accountant may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree.
- Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) designation is desirable.
- Additional professional certifications (CISA, CFE) are an advantage.
- A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible professional experience in audit or a directly relevant area, several of which in internal audit.
- Working experience in International Organizations is desirable.
- Field experience is an advantage.
- Fluency in oral and written English required. Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage.
All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment
Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.