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Job Description
The African Union, established as a unique Pan African continental body, is charged with spearheading Africa’s rapid integration and sustainable development by promoting unity, solidarity, cohesion and cooperation among the peoples of Africa and African States as well as developing a new partnership worldwide. Its Headquarters is located in Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia.
In seeking to achieve this objective, the African Union intends to strengthen its capacity to deliver by, among others, the implementation of partnership programmes in the European Commission (EC) support programme. Through this initiative, the Commission has received funding from the EC to assist in capacity building and organizational development.
In seeking to achieve this objective, the African Union intends to strengthen its capacity to deliver by, among others, the implementation of its organizational structure and the filling of all vacant posts.
The Commission of the African Union invites applicants who are citizens of Member States for the post of Senior Auditor – Partners Fund.
Grade: P3
Supervisor: Director of Internal Audit
Department: Office of Internal Audit
Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Job Purpose
Under the supervision of the Director of Internal Audit, the Senior Auditor shall supervise and handle all audit activities relating to AU partner funds; perform and review regular audit exercises to ensure that funds are utilized and accounted for in line with
the terms of agreement with partners, AUC Rules and Regulations and internationally acceptable standards of accounting.
Major duties and responsibilities
a. Lead audits/special reviews with respect to large and complex partners financed operations. Identify and allocate tasks, coordinate/monitor work, control audit/assignment resources, consolidate results, etc.
b. Prepare risk-based audits/reviews. Plan in accordance with professional standards. Supervise and coach staff throughout the audit/review with the view to ensuring conformity with standards of Internal Audit in all phases of the audit process.
c. Document, evaluate and test systems and controls to determine their adequacy and effectiveness, ensuring
- Compliance with policies/procedures, and financing agreement
- Accomplishment of management’s objectives,
- Reliability and integrity of information,
- Economical use of resources, and
- Safeguarding of assets.
d. Ascertain that funds are utilized as per the terms and conditions of the donors’ agreements and in accordance with the AUC rules and regulations.
e. Review budget performance with a view to determine whether the auditee has executed its budget within the authorized limits.
f. Review both financial and narrative reports to verify whether they are submitted to the AU Partners on time and meet the reporting requirements.
g. Recommend ways of improving the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of operations based upon findings from an impartial and objective examination.
h. Prepare working papers for review; develop and discuss findings, agree on recommendations and timelines for corrective action with responsible officers of operations.
i. Draft audit/assignment reports for Organization-wide consumption, including senior management and the PRC.
j. Make presentations of audit results to senior management of the operation audited. Monitor the status of implementation of audit recommendations. Appraise adequacy of follow-up action taken on audit findings and recommendations.
k. Maintain and update audit programs. Identify training needs, develop training programs and materials, and conduct workshops with respect to auditing approaches and techniques.
l. Evaluate staff performance; perform management review of work performed by junior auditors, prior to the review of the supervisor.
m. Perform any other relevant duty/ responsibility assigned.
Educational Qualifications & Work Experience
- Candidates must have at least a Masters Degree in in Accounting or Finance Management and 7 years of appropriate experience at national, regional or international level of which at least 3 years at a supervisory capacity.
- Candidates with University Bachelor’s in Accounting or Finance Management provided they have 10 years of relevant work experience of which 5 years must be at a supervisory capacity
- A professional certificate and affiliation to a relevant procurement professional body will be an added advantage.
Other relevant skills
- Excellent interpersonal and team building skills, ability to organize and motivate others as well as work in a multi-cultural environment,
- Excellent writing and reporting skills,
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good communication and negotiating skills,
- Experience at working both independently and in team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
- Computer literacy and experience in working with computerized accounting systems (preferably SAP), standard spreadsheet and database programs
AU Language Requirement
- Proficiency in one of the African Union working languages.
- Knowledge of one or several other working languages would be an added advantage.
Tenure of Appointment
The appointment will be made on a fixed term contract for a period of two (2) years, of which the first Six (6) months will be considered as a probationary period. Thereafter,
the contract will be for a annually subject to satisfactory performance and fund availability.
Closing date: Nov 30,2015
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How to Apply
The salary attached to the position is an annual lump-sum of US$ 83,070.00 (P3 step 5) inclusive of all allowances for internationally recruited staff, and US$ 71,466.41 inclusive of all allowances for locally recruited staff.
Applications must be made through the AUC E-recruitment Website
http://www.aucareers.org not later than 30 th November 2015.
Directorate of Administration and Human Resources Management
African Union Commission
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
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