Corporate Audit Sr. Specialist

Job Description

JOB PURPOSE

To support in performing corporate audit activities and operations as per the audit plan, ensuring compliance with LCGPA rules, guidelines, and relevant policies and regulations; to ensure implementation of adequate corporate governance controls and identify any non-conforming practices across LCGPA.

Description

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Corporate Audit

• To support the development of the internal corporate audit guidelines, methodologies, tools and plans (including the annual internal audit plan), to ensure exhaustiveness and consistency of internal audit practices across LCGPA.
• To support the Implementation of internal audit policies, procedures, methodologies, systems and standards across LCGPA; conduct an annual review of policies, procedures, and methodologies and update the audit methodology / Internal Audit Manual to match best practices and latest international audit standards.
• To support performing audit activities as per the defined internal audit plan across the Authority’s departments and functions, ensuring compliance to rules, guidelines, and policies; identify of all non-conforming practices that need to be corrected.
• Carry out detailed corporate audit of systems, records and procedures through a thorough examination of available documents, reports, etc. to ensure that all operational practices are being run accurately and adhere to professional operational standards.
• Provide support to external auditors to ensure smooth execution of external audits, with proper communication and exchange of information.
• Provide support in reporting any identified areas of weaknesses, risks, fraud, or any deviation from policies and procedures; prepare periodic audit reports for management review.
• Support in conducting investigations to identify root causes of nonconforming practices and deviations; work with concerned function heads to develop and implement corrective and preventative action plans to remedy the identified issues in a timely manner and prevent future occurrences.
• Support in conduct follow up audits to monitor effectiveness of management interventions and applied corrective actions to fix identified deviations and to mitigate risks.
• Support the development and execution of IT audit plans, processes and operational activities (information & network security, IT systems, data centers, IT infrastructure, etc.) to ensure compliance to rules, guidelines, policies and easy identification of any non-conforming practices.
  
  

Corporate Governance

• Provide support to design and implement a thorough corporate governance framework with well-defined governance processes and strong controls, to be applied across LCGPA.
• Support conducting a continuous review of the governance framework and controls, and ensure it is being correctly applied and followed across LCGPA; identify and escalate any deviations from defined governance processes.
  
  

Policies, Systems, Processes, Procedures, Standards and Reports

• Follow all relevant functional policies, processes, standard operating procedures and instructions to ensure that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
• Assist in the preparation of timely and accurate reports and functional deliverables to meet the functional requirements in order to achieve the desired efficiency and performance excellence.
  
  

Related Tasks

• Perform any other related tasks and duties as directed.
  
  

Technical Competencies

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Relations Management - Proficient
• Business and Report Writing - Proficient
• Presentation skills - Proficient
• Language Proficiency - Proficient
• IT skills - Proficient
• Data Management - Basic
• Internal Control and Compliance Management - Proficient
• Internal Audit process - Proficient
• Auditing Systems and Information Technology - Proficient
  
  

Education

Business Administration, Accounting or related fields