Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 30 Oct 2019
Our world is our playground, a platform for the creativity of all seven billion of us. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that a world that works for all of us can be possible. But the opportunities are all around us. While we all hope for a better future for our world, many of us are building it. If you are a builder, we are betting on you.
47 years ago, we started building a world we all want to live in.
We started in Bangladesh. We listened and learnt, failed and got up again. We never stopped trying. And we never will. We trust in people, and we take on the impossible, every day. Fighting poverty, building platforms for tolerance, equality and inclusion, saying no to violence against women and children.
BRAC is the world’s largest non-governmental organization with over 100,000 employees reaching an estimated 135 million people,
BRAC is one of the largest providers of financial services to households rising out of poverty in eleven countries across Asia (Myanmar and Afghanistan) and Sub-Saharan Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda South Sudan, Philippines and Nepal).
BRAC International is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill up the following position:
Head of Internal Audit, BRAC South Sudan
Job Location: Juba
The role of Head for Internal Audit will be to ensure the economical, effective and efficient use of resources, safeguard the BRAC’s assets, ensure compliance with established policies, procedures, laws and regulations, and ensure the country programme is adequately delivering its objectives against the Annual Operational Plan. The IA will evaluate and provide reasonable assurance that risk management, control, and governance systems are functioning as intended, identify and help manage risks from the Field Office, Partners to Country Office levels, and report on effectiveness in the use of institutional and grant resources to achieve intended impact.
Key Responsibilities:
Risk Management
Identify potential risk areas in the course of audits and investigations and ensure processes have been designed well enough to enable managers to manage identified risks in an effective way.
Ensure controls are properly designed, implemented and operationally effective to mitigate risks.
Ensure BRAC’s risk profile is developed regularly, monitored and updated.
Compliance
Examine financial records, information storage systems and internal controls to ensure there are no indications of mismanagement, unnecessary waste of resources or fraud.
Ensure controls established are strictly adhered to and in line with the guiding objectives of BRAC International.
Ensure that laid down limits in BRAC’s Table Authority are consistently complied with.
Review the compliance of the policies and procedures of BRAC and specific funding agencies.
Examine the utilization of budgets in relation to the donor’s/BRAC allowed areas of expense.
Ensure legislative or regulatory issues affecting BRAC are recognized and addressed appropriately.
Employee’s actions are in compliance with policies, standards, procedures and applicable laws and regulations.
Audit Execution
Conduct internal audits as scheduled in the Annual Audit Plan and within the deadlines established in the annual Audit Calendar in accordance with BRAC International’s Internal Audit Manual.
Prepare annual audit plan and audit calendar based on audit risk areas identified.
Examine and evaluate financial and information systems, recommending controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity.
Continually review controls put in place for adequacy.
Verify supporting documents for purpose, value for money, eligibility and appropriate authorization.
Check and ensure that relevant procurement processes are followed.
Carry out stock takings on all movable assets including cash.
Perform investigations of suspected fraud or misappropriations and complete special projects as assigned.
Internal Audit will follow-up audit work on outstanding recommendations from previous quarterly audits.
Assist in external audit assignments on internal control and substantive testing accurately as requested, completely and in a timely manner.
Assist the Country Focal Point on BRAC Safeguarding issues in enforcing and supporting compliance to BRAC Safeguarding policies
Provide a liaison role in the management of annual external audit and in donor audits of specific projects.
Ensure the audit report is received by management in a timely manner.
Ensure that summary audit findings and draft audit reports are shared with management and later finalize audit reports based on comments, in accordance with BRAC International Audit Manual. practice.
Ensure regular communication with BI Head Office Audit team and report significant audit issues to Head Office Senior Management.
Person Specifications:
- Demonstrable leadership, organizational, managerial and communication skills
- Ability to think strategically, conceptualize new ideas, digest and analyze complex information and present coherent work plan or implementation plan
- Entrepreneurial and proactive
- Possess professional attitude and diligence and able to work independently as well as work in a team
- Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time efficiently
- Strong analytical and information gathering skills
- Strong communication and representational skills
- Knowledge on IAS/IFRS, Accounting, Budgeting, Finance, Auditing, Tax, VAT, Fiscal laws and their application
- In depth knowledge of International standard on Auditing.
- Should be sincere, polite, dynamic, hardworking and willing to work under pressure
- Should have good communication and presentation skill in English
- Sound knowledge on Computer Literacy.
Educational Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business related field. Master’s degree will be an added advantage
- Professional certification – CPA, CIA or ACCA
Experience Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience with internal or external audit experience
- Working knowledge of donor compliance requirements for some key donors including USAID, EU, GAC, DIFD, and other will be an asset
- Organisational risk based audit skills
- Communications skills (written and spoken)
- ICT Specialty (spread-sheets, word, database, job-related software, etc)
- Good understanding of internal audit including international trends and best practices
- Commitment to and understanding of BRAC’s vision, mission and values
Employment type: Contractual
Salary: Negotiable
For other benefits plea
If you feel you are the right match for above-mentioned position, please email your CV with a letter of interest mentioning your educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary at recruitment.bi@brac.net. Please mention the name of the position, country applied for and AD# 52/19 in the subject bar.
Only complete applications will be accepted and short listed candidates will be contacted. Application Deadline: October 30, 2019
BRAC believes every one of its employees, suppliers, downstream partners, visitors, clients and community including
children, youth and vulnerable adults that come into contact regardless of age, race, religion, gender, disability or ethnic origin has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us.
How to apply:
Candidates should email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning your educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary at recruitment.bi@brac.net. Please mention the name of the position, country applied for and AD# 52/19 in the subject bar.