Head of Internal Audit
Publication date:
15 April 2025Workload:
100%Contract type:
Permanent position- Place of work:Geneva
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Job summary
The Internal Audit Unit ensures effective governance and oversight. It offers a great opportunity to enhance the ICRC's efficiency and transparency.
Tasks
- Verify the organization's governance and risk management systems.
- Ensure compliance with ICRC standards, rules, and procedures.
- Assess the effectiveness of internal control systems and data reliability.
Skills
- Experience in auditing, risk management, or governance is essential.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities are required.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are crucial.
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The Internal Audit Unit has an internal monitoring function. It reports directly to the Assembly, which, assisted by the Risks and Audit Commission, exercises general oversight. It also reports on a regular basis to the Risks and Audit Commission and the Presidency of the ICRC. It is independent of the executive (Directorate).
The task of the Internal Audit Unit is to:
- Verify that the organisation has a sound system of governance, including oversight. Assess the adequacy of the identification, control mechanisms, and management of risks.
- Ensure the relevant ICRC standards, rules, procedures, and principles are followed.
- Make sure that the internal control systems work as designed.
- Guarantee the reliability of ICRC’s financial, control, and risk management data.
Its work, which covers the full range of ICRC activities both at headquarters and in the field, is based on methods geared to enhancing the organization's effectiveness and efficiency. In the course of its work, the Unit may also give advice and make recommendations to that end. It does this while striving to maintain a relationship of trust and transparency between internal auditors and those they audit.
The Head of the Internal Audit Unit is responsible for defining the scope of the Unit's activities, for using the tools and techniques needed to achieve its goals, for planning ahead to ensure that it has the resources it requires, for submitting an annual audit plan to the Assembly, for carrying out that plan, and for communicating the results to the appropriate bodies.
The Head of the Internal Audit Unit currently manages a team of 23 persons based in Geneva, Manila, and Nairobi.
