Senior Advisor (Assurance)

at  Queensland Reconstruction Authority

Your role as Senior Assurance Officer will provide assurance over project funding submissions for a suite of disaster recovery and resilience grants administered by QRA and be a key liaison and coordination point for internal and external stakeholders to ensure QRA receives the required information. You will combine your technical and people experience to present complex information in an accurate and engaging way to a range of stakeholders.

• Develop and maintain collaborative and productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders that contribute to or have necessary involvement in QRA’s assurance and governance functions.
• Conduct operational assurance reviews on QRA funded projects in accordance with program funding guidelines using risk based methodologies.
• Actively contribute to QRA’s response to external audit of grant programs administered by QRA.
• Prepare high quality work papers which accurately reflect the work performed and supports findings and recommendations.
• Participate in post-implementation reviews and reporting of management actions in relation to recommendations raised by audit, including external audit.
• Present and negotiate audit findings and recommendations to Senior Management and key internal and external stakeholders where required.
• Ensure that QRA processes and procedures comply with legislation, accounting and auditing standards, funding guidelines and internal organisational policies.
• This role may be required to travel within Queensland on occasion to meet with stakeholders.
• Opportunities to travel post disaster events may be required.

To find out more about QRA visit our website, or reach out to the contact officer for more information about this role.
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• Develop and maintain collaborative and productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders that contribute to or have necessary involvement in QRA’s assurance and governance functions.
• Conduct operational assurance reviews on QRA funded projects in accordance with program funding guidelines using risk based methodologies.
• Actively contribute to QRA’s response to external audit of grant programs administered by QRA.
• Prepare high quality work papers which accurately reflect the work performed and supports findings and recommendations.
• Participate in post-implementation reviews and reporting of management actions in relation to recommendations raised by audit, including external audit.
• Present and negotiate audit findings and recommendations to Senior Management and key internal and external stakeholders where required.
• Ensure that QRA processes and procedures comply with legislation, accounting and auditing standards, funding guidelines and internal organisational policies.
• This role may be required to travel within Queensland on occasion to meet with stakeholders.
• Opportunities to travel post disaster events may be required