Director of Audit - Africa Region

Overview

Compassion's internal audit team serves the Global Ministry Center, National Offices, and our Frontline Church Partners. We follow identified risk areas for the ministry as well as explore opportunities with management, all with the same mission of helping keep our churches, children, and staff safe, across the world.

This Director of Audit position leads the Africa region audit team to ensure organizational accountability, integrity, and value adding services. This leader works with the Senior Director of Audit and his/her peers to accomplish the annual plan through our three lines of service:

Internal Audit Assurance: financial, operational, compliance, technology Special Projects: advisory/consulting services Frontline Church Partner Fraud Investigations: allegation assessments, fraud examination procedures, and reporting.

This position is part of the Global Audit leadership team.

What will you do?

• Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintaining a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully uphold Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
• Act as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understand Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commit to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abide by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Report any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately support responses to incidents if they occur.
• Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors.
• Provide leadership, planning and consultation to subordinates, executives, and peer management in the successful alignment of assigned department resources to ensure achievement of operational priorities and initiatives, integrating priorities within organizational strategies to ensure that department's purpose is fulfilled.
• Compile, prepare and administer the annual budget and departmental expenses, ensuring accountability for on-time completion of deliverables based on department objectives, SLAs, and other Compassion standards, ensuring compliance with regulatory and board policies.
• Select, manage and develop staff, establishing goals and objectives, coaching and managing performance, including discipline, motivation, and annual reviews; supports continuous learning and development that enhances individual performance and organizational capability.
• Serve as a strategic partner with senior ministry leaders, managers, and other audit and risk management professionals. Collaborate across functions to plan and direct audits that review supporting documents for Compassion operations to ensure organizational accountability and integrity and maintain operational excellence.
• Influence key decisions on Compassion's standards, controls, programs, and processes. Direct initiatives to improve consistency, scalability, quality and efficiency of audits; provides opinion and assurance on control framework issues, including: internal policies and procedures, industry standards and requirements, and regulatory requirements.
• Direct subordinate managers and staff to conduct audits and investigations in a manner that builds partnership with Compassion and Partners and is successful in identifying root causes that can be corrected to ensure ongoing improvement and future successes.
• As required, personally participate in key investigations, major reports, and critical plans to assist management in taking corrective action.
• Manage subordinate staff who complete special project related to finance and accounting such as process improvement, policy development, compliance programs, etc., as well as ensure data integrity and mine and analyze data for business intelligence and other appropriate uses.

What do you bring?

• Personal relationship with Jesus Christ
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field. Master’s preferred.
• 10-15+ years of relevant audit and/or investigations experience
• Prior experience leading in a Cross-Regional environment
• Strongly preferred: Managerial experience within a major public accounting firm
• One certification required (multiple strongly preferred): Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), or Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
• Ability to travel up to 40% of normal schedule

Why work here?

• The mission: Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
• Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.