Audit Supervisor

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Are you Ready for a Career with Impact? Match your passion with our mission: ASSURANCE, INSIGHT, ADVICE.

Now is an exciting time to join our team! Join the World Bank Group's Internal Audit team (GIA), and you will have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future by supporting the WBG mission for greater good. We are looking for people who can think innovatively, are enthusiastic, and who enjoy working in teams.

Group Internal Audit (GIA) helps to protect and enhance World Bank Group processes by providing independent, objective and insightful risk-based assurance and advisory services. We encourage you to visit our website.

Our IT Audit Staff are passionate about the execution and delivery of assurance and advisory engagements covering IT, Data Management, and other key strategic initiatives of the World Bank Group.

Scope & Accountabilities

The Audit Supervisor within GIA’s Information Technology (IT) team will be a senior member of the internal audit team and will be expected to primarily lead the execution and delivery of audit/advisory engagements covering information technology processes of the Bank, IFC, MIGA and ICSID. The Audit Supervisor will also work closely with the Program Manager, IT Audit in the course of developing and executing GIA’s risk-based work program. The Audit Supervisor will report to the Program Manager, IT Audit who will be responsible for mentoring, performance evaluation and overall learning and professional development.

Some specific responsibilities for this role will include:

•Leading the dynamic risk assessment process, collecting input from management, and assessing WBG’s strategic initiatives and changes in the business to inform audit work program, specifically focused on IT and Data related risks. Providing thought leadership in WBG-wide assessment of risks, based on deep understanding of the WBG institutions’ technology and sharing insights and knowledge

•Maintaining business relationships with appropriate levels of IT management to ensure that GIA is aware of changes in business activities and objectives and supporting the IT Audit Program Manager in developing and the executing the risk-based IT audit plan

•Planning and supervising multiple audit and advisory engagements simultaneously to meet GIA’s work program objectives and timeline commitments. This includes determining staffing requirements (both in-house and co-sourced) for projects and actively monitoring the actual level of effort and elapsed time to meet cost and timeline commitments

•Ensuring all audit program steps meet project objectives and are completed and reviewed on schedule; Monitoring progress and results and designing feedback loop, where required, to resolve bottlenecks

•Leading the audit teams to understand and assess the IT system flows, technology risks, and the related controls supporting the business processes

•Performing preliminary evaluation of control exceptions to determine if a deficiency exists and the level of that deficiency. Discussing observations with management to agree on risks and remediation needed

•Communicating and validating findings and recommendations to all levels of departmental and operating unit management, verbally and through concisely written reports

•Independently developing succinct and impactful reports for communicating engagement results to Senior Management and the Board

•Supervising staff and reviewing their work to ensure it meets GIA standards

•Providing ongoing coaching to team members of various levels and experience and providing key input into performance evaluations for auditors

•Leading non-audit engagements, initiatives and external outreach opportunities as assigned