Internal Auditor (Only women candidates are considered)

Background:

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Development and Inter- Church Aid Commission (EOC-DICAC) is established as the development wing of Ethiopian Orthodox Church, in 1972 by legal notice No.415 to respond to development and humanitarian gaps and to address the needy population in the country. Since its establishment, EOC-DICAC has been engaged in various types of multi-sectorial development and humanitarian projects and programs with wide range of intervention areas all over the country. EOC-DICAC is currently looking for candidates in the following job posts for a project entitled “capacity building for women in leadership and advocacy’’:

Term of Employment:  One year with a possibility of extension

Required Number:        one

Salary & Benefits:          Competitive

Job Description:

The Senior Internal Auditor participates in preparing activity and budget plan of the internal audit functions of the organization to ensure robust governance and internal control system. Performs financial, compliance, and performance auditing activities in all operations, projects, and other activities of the EOC-DICAC’s mandate areas. She is specifically responsible for assurance audits and provision of the preventive risk advisory services on regular basis regarding the devolved authorities and deployed resources to Regional Offices (ROs) of EOC-DICAC. With the guidance of the managers, the incumbent conducts studies on risks and compliance issues provides recommendations on how to mitigate risks and strengthens the internal financial control systems of the EOC-DICAC. Assess and evaluates books of accounts, purchase transactions and awards, asset registrations, and inventories are properly carried out based on policies and procedures of the organization to address the interests of key stakeholders like donors and the government of FDRE. Participates in detecting and inspecting misconducts and misappropriations of assets and reports findings with recommendations as deemed necessary. Particularly, the responsibility of the senior auditor gives significance to evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of controls in responding to risks within the EOC-DICAC’s governance, operation, and information system regarding compliance with the government policies, laws, regulations, and EOC-DICAC’s plan, procedures, contract agreement, safeguarding of assets, reliability of financial information, economical and efficient use of resources.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Performs internal audit of the organizations and assertions that they are accurate and genuine.
• Assist the Managers in preparing internal audit plan and preparation of annual budget.
• Submits written audit report to internal audit head and then to the management.
• Prepares and assists in the execution of the external audit as well as in examinations to be conducted by government regulatory agencies, donors, and other stakeholders.
• Ensures the implementation of recommendations and action points forwarded by the external auditor’s management letters.
• Carry out field supervision, ensure adherence of all finance staff to IPSAS, identify  gaps early and propose actions for improvement.
• Collect and analyze data to detect deficient control, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud or non – compliance with IPSAS.
• Report to management about audit result and recommend changes in operation and financial activities.
• Preview data about materials assets, network, liabilities income (fund) and expenditure; and
• Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness and use of accepted procedures to record transaction.

Required Qualification:

• Previous professional experience in NGO setup
• Master’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or other relevant fields.
• A minimum of at least five years of experience.
• Excellent knowledge of accounting and risk-based auditing with a focus on the assurance and consultancy service provisions.
• Be adaptable and able to meet deadlines as well as work with different types of staff of EOC-DICAC.
• Strong skills in negotiating, relationship building, problem-solving and timely escalation.
• Excellent English language proficiency and written and oral communication skills.
• Detail-oriented and able to quickly grasp the big picture.
• Able to learn quickly and work towards the Vision & Strategy of the organization.
• Motivated to contribute to high-performing teams with frequent field visits.
•  Shall have at least Word and Excel software skills.
• Knowledge of IPSAS software is an added value.
• Ability to adapt and meet deadlines as well as work with different types of staff of EOC-DICAC.
• Ability to perform duties and responsibilities under stress condition.
• Who is willing to perform other activities as instructed by her immediate supervisor.