Senior Manager of Audit - Asia 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 senior manager of global audit position leads the Asia 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 and is currently being reviewed structurally to be more in line with peer functions.

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.

• Provides leadership, planning and consultation to team members and the greater audit team for the successful alignment of assigned department resources to ensure achievement of operational priorities and initiatives, integrating annual priorities while being sensitive to organizational strategies and requests.

• Contributes to the annual budget and departmental expenses, ensuring accountability for on-time completion of deliverables based on the audit plan and special requests from management that may arise during the fiscal year.

• Selects, manages, and develops assigned 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.

• Forges relationships with key regional and national program ministry leaders, managers, and other support service professionals (i.e., Legal, Finance, IT, P&C, etc.) and drives insightful recommendations concerning key decisions on Compassion's standards, controls, programs, and processes. Manages the implementation of 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.

• Ensures the annual plan and investigations are conducted within professional audit and investigation standards, completed in a timely manager, and builds partnership within Compassion stakeholders by successfully identifying root causes that can be corrected to ensure ongoing improvement and future successes and/or providing management timely and actionable results.

• May travel to Compassion national offices and project sites as required to ensure quality assurance and proper support and training to staff members.

• Other duties as assigned.

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 investigation experience in this field

• Strongly preferred: Managerial experience within a major public accounting firm

• One certification required (multiple strongly preferred): Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor and/or Certified Fraud Examiner

Why work here?

• The mission: Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.

• Our benefits: Receive generous paid time off, 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary, excellent healthcare coverage, free short-term professional counseling, and more.

• Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.

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