Regional Audit Director, Southern Africa Region (SAR) World Vision · Lusaka

Regional Audit Director, Southern Africa Region (SAR) World Vision · Lusaka

About the Job

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience the fullness of life. We assist children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities

Location: To be determined by the home country of the successful candidate where World Vision International is registered to operate in any country from Southern Africa Region.

The Regional Audit Director – South Africa Region (SAR) provides strategic leadership to the Regional Internal Audit Team (RIAT) as part of the Global Internal Audit (GIA) in the SAR Region, under the leadership of the Senior Global Director, Regional Audit.

He/she has a dotted reporting line to each local board and leads GIA’s services across the whole SAR region, covering 9 Field Offices with cumulated annual revenue of approximately USD 275M+, ensuring that GIA delivers on its mandate to “enhance and protect the organizational value and assist WVI to accomplish its objectives by providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice, and insight to improve the effectiveness of WVI governance, risk management, and internal controls”.

Major Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership, Planning, and Communication – 30%

• Develop a five-year risk-based regional internal audit plan in consultation with the national and regional leadership.
• Preparation of RIAT annual budgets, ensuring concurrence by Regional Leadership and approval by local and WVI ARCs.
• Oversee RIAT talent management, including recruitment, remuneration, staff training, development, and well-being.
• Provide insight and pragmatic, forward-looking recommendations to key stakeholders.
• Play a key role in developing and rolling out WVI’s combined assurance model.
• Present quarterly to the Regional Leadership and the local Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) on audit results.

Promote and Ensure RIAT’s High Performance – 25%

• Regional leadership and oversight on the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the RIAT’s performance framework.
• Ensure GIA’s RIAT services are rendered in accordance with the IIA’s International Auditing Standards.
• Drive stakeholder relationships and communication and recommend/implement actions to achieve improvements.

Promote and Ensure High Quality – 25%

• Evaluate and communicate outcomes of engagements and follow-ups performed by the internal audit activity.
• Recommend improvements to the organization’s global, regional, and field office governance policies.
• Maintain and promote the highest conformance and ethical standards for GIA.

Drive Innovation – 20%

• Continually drive and assess innovation/improvement in RIAT’s written and verbal communication skills, soft skills, and projects.
• Partner with WVI leadership on organizational change initiatives in an advisory capacity.

Required Experience

• At least 10 years of internal audit experience, preferably in a “Big 4” firm or large multinational, with at least 5 years at a senior manager/director level.
• Proven track record of relationship building at the senior level.
• Proven experience in risk-based internal audit.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of functional linkages.
• Ability to think strategically and apply “systems thinking”.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Internal Audit, or similar; MBA is a plus; CPA and/or Chartered Financial Accountant or equivalent; Certified Internal Auditor (CIA).

Preferred Experience

• Cross-cultural experience in INGOs, experience in using Audit Software, Embedded Audit Tools/Techniques, Strategy Implementation.
• Basic IT Audit and Fraud Investigation (CFE is a plus) Data mining & analytics, including financial and trend analysis.

May work from home or in a hybrid home/office arrangement. Can be based in any country in which WV has operations in the Southern Africa Region but preferably in a central time zone or in the region applicable to the appointment.

Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time.

Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only

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