Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan is looking for a seasoned and highly experienced Manager Internal Audit for Central Office, Karachi.

Major Responsibilities:

• Annual planning for the department: Major activities: Assist in developing risk-based audit plan and participating in the departmental budget planning. Outcome: A risk based annual audit plan and departmental budget.
• Execution of annual audit plan: Major activities: Assigning audit assignment to staff and ensuring that audit assignments are completed on time. Outcome: Monthly assignments allocation report and monthly update report.
• Supervise staff and ensuring that department’s resources are efficiently allocated and utilized: Major activities: Ensure that right competence are allocated to each audit assignment, review audit program, closely monitor staff to ensure time is well utilized and audit objectives are met, review audit working papers and reports, ensure that resources are well utilized and managed. Outcome: Well-handled audit assignments, well-planned audit assignments, value adding audit assignments, quality audit report support with evidence, department report.
• Ensuring that audit assignments are carried out in line with AKHS, P methodology and observing professional standards: Major activities: Plan audit assignment, audit commencement notice issued in time, audit opening meeting, carryout field work / audit tests / evidence gathering, organize audit work file, write audit reports. Outcome: Audit program, notification, minutes, filled audit program with working papers, audit working files, factual audit reports.
• Provide practical and proactive audit recommendations that are discussed and agreed with auditee management: Major activities: Provide practical and proactive audit recommendations, ensure that all recommendations are discussed with management, obtain implementation target dates. Outcome: Acceptable audit recommendations, management comments obtained, target dates provided.
• Follow-up with management to ensure that audit recommendations are implemented: Major activities: Compile a list of all audit recommendations, check with key management on implementation of status, prepare aging analysis of open items, on monthly basis share analysis of open items with management. Outcome: List of audit recommendation, updated list of audit recommendations, aging analysis, implementation status report.
• Review performance of staff on regular basis to ensure that their works are professionally tenable: Major activities: Appraise staff after every assignment, provide staff leadership and mentoring in work and skill development, disseminate knowledge to staff. Outcome: Filled assignment-based appraisal forms, review notes, presentations and briefs.
• Assist the Chief Internal Auditor in preparing reports and other work: Major activities: Assist in compiling in monthly for Internal Audit Management Committee Meeting, assist in preparation of various papers for quarterly audit committee meeting. Outcome: Accurate and informative reports.

Education, Skills & Competencies:

• Chartered Accountant Finalist / Cost and Management Accountant / ACCA qualified or equivalent qualification.
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or (CISA) is desired.
• Seven years of experience out of which two years should be in a managerial role.
• Should be self-starter with the ability to plan and perform audits with limited supervision.
• Should possess strong investigative and project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills in order to communicate effectively with all levels of employees.
• Should have a desire to learn and understand institutional inter-operations and apply that knowledge to assist management in improving organizational controls and procedures.
• Should have the ability to maintain high standards of confidentiality and to work with a high degree of integrity.
• Should be result-oriented and deadline-driven with demonstrated organization skills and the ability to multi-task and assume changing responsibilities.
• Willing to extensive travel for audit assignments.

AKHS, P is an equal opportunity employer and offers conducive professional environment. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview.

AKHS is committed to reducing our impact on climate and the environment and have set ourselves the goal of striving for net-zero carbon operations by 2030. All staff is expected to take part in making this a reality. The Manager Internal Audit accompanied with his/her Line Manager(s) is expected to identify and understand which aspects of his/her work have most impact on the environment, and define tasks, work, and personal goals within his/her work plan to reduce these impacts and bring AKHS closer to net zero.