Manager, Internal Audit Quality and Excellence (IT Audits)

• Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates
• Contract
• Business unit: Internal Audit
• Division: Internal Audit

Company Description

Established in 2006, Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) is a global clean energy leader, transforming how the world produces and consumes energy through bold innovation and commercial excellence.

Masdar is a clean energy investor, developer and operator, advancing renewable energy projects across key markets and technologies, with a global project portfolio capacity to date of over 65 gigawatts (GW).

Jointly owned by TAQA, ADNOC and Mubadala, Masdar is driving the scale-up of renewables worldwide, targeting a portfolio capacity of 100GW by 2030.

Job Description

To lead/perform individual advisory and internal audit engagements, as part of the annual internal audit plan in order to contribute to providing reasonable assurance that Masdar’s internal controls achieve objectives and promote efficiency, effectiveness and reduce the risk of loss, as well as help ensure the compliance with Laws and Regulations. To perform annual risk assessment and develop advisory audit plan.

Key Accountabilities : 

• Lead and manage technical /non-technical assurance /consulting engagements from planning phase to reporting phase.
• Liaise with Quality Reviewer, to ensure that all deliverables are quality reviewed before submission of same to process owners.
• Perform internal audit or advisory engagements covering Renewable Energy Portfolio Management (at Head Office and Masdar Platforms) with an objective to add value, enhance efficiency and effectiveness of underlying processes and recommend best practices.
• Utilize advanced data analytics techniques to identify patterns, trends, and anomalies in financial and operational data as part of audit and advisory engagements.
• Support in developing and delivering the annual operational business plans and KPIs for the unit and contribute to performance monitoring and reporting for the unit so that overall objectives are met.
• Prepare/ review the risk and control matrix (RCM) prepared by external consultant prior to the start of /during the audit fieldwork and submit to the Quality reviewer/ senior management for approval.
• Manage and execute the audit engagements as per the engagement plan including RCM and develop proper working papers to support the work done and audit findings noted and submit the same for quality review.
• Review work performed by field auditors and issues received from the field auditors and determine if other area or related activities need to be reviewed in order to reflect a correct picture of the company’s commercial health.
• Review of subordinate work papers for work completeness, meeting the objectives, and matching it against issues identified.
• Review audit issues/ draft audit report received from the field auditors and determine if other area or related activities need to be reviewed in order to reflect a correct picture of the company’s commercial health.
• Submit the draft audit report to senior management for review in line with the project time plan
• Review work performed by field auditors and issues received from the field auditors and determine if other area or related activities need to be reviewed in order to reflect a correct picture of the company’s commercial health.
• Review of subordinate work papers for work completeness, meeting the objectives, and matching it against issues identified.
• Review audit issues/ draft audit report received from the field auditors and determine if other area or related activities need to be reviewed in order to reflect a correct picture of the company’s commercial health.
• Submit the draft audit report to senior management for review in line with the project time plan.
• Manage client relationships (auditee) on assigned individual assignments and ensure achievement of targeted percentage on audit satisfaction survey issued after the completion of the audit.
• Develop and implement action plans on the areas of improvements identified by client in the audit satisfaction survey.
• Upload/ supervise and ensure that work papers are complete and uploaded in the internal audit database/ software.