Assistant Internal Auditor at International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology – ICIPE

icipe’s mission is to help alleviate poverty, ensure food security and improve the overall health status of peoples of the tropics, by developing and extending management tools and strategies for harmful and useful arthropods, while preserving the natural resource base through research and capacity building. The Centre’s vision is to pioneer global science in entomology, to improve the well being and resilience of people and the environment to the challenges of a changing world, through innovative and applied research, alongside deep exploratory study, impact assessment, evaluation and sustainable capacity building.

Overall Purpose of the Job

To review various business processes and documents, to check for controls and compliance with the Centre’s policies including physical asset verification and conducting systems audits.

Specific Duties

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Undertake audit assignments and prepare audit reports in line with the approved audit work plans.


• Examine and evaluate accounting systems, and internal control procedures within the Centre.


• Carry out interviews with various levels of staff during audits, discuss findings and follow-up actions and prepare working papers for the various audits and summarize audit issues.


• Perform project and partner audits and check for compliance with donor and Centre’s policies and procedures.


• Identification of risks including people, technology, and process risks through a risk-based approach in the review of the Centre’s transactions.


• Identify and document audit issues and recommendations concerning areas reviewed.


• Carry out post audit reviews to establish the status of agreed corrective action plans.


• Perform any other duties that may be assigned by the Internal Auditor or the Management.

Requirements

Qualifications

• A degree in Accounting/Finance or related business field.


• Professional accounting qualification – CPA-K/ACCA.


• At least 5 years relevant audit experience.

Core Competencies

• Strong organization skills


• High attention to detail and excellent analytical skills.


• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.

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