Internal Auditor

Chartered in 1983, Aga Khan University (AKU) is committed to excellence in education, research and service. The University strives for quality, international standards and relevance in all of its programmes and selects its faculty, staff and students on the basis of merit, irrespective of gender, race, religion or domicile. AKU is a major component of Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), which consists of institutions that collaborate for development in response to social, economic and cultural challenges in specific regions of the developing world. 

The University's Faculty of Health Sciences was planned with the support of Harvard University, McGill University and McMaster University. It presently includes a Medical College and a School of Nursing, which are located together with their principal teaching site, Aga Khan University Hospital, in Karachi, Pakistan. In addition, in Karachi, the University has an Institute for Educational Development and a substantial Faculty of Arts and Sciences which is being developed on a new 1,100-acre campus.

As an international institution, the University has established academic programmes beyond Pakistan, through an Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in UK and programmes in Advanced Nursing Studies and Postgraduate Medical Education in countries in East Africa. AKU is currently planning a major expansion of its existing work in East Africa, in the fields of medical, nursing and teacher education.

In July 2005, AKU integrated into its academic and service activities, a teaching hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Established in 1958 and currently a 254-bed facility, the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi had been operating under the aegis of Aga Khan Health Service, Kenya. Renamed Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi (AKUH,N), the new institution is AKU's principal Health Science teaching facility in East Africa. AKUH,N is focusing on high quality of care, research and postgraduate medical education in all major clinical specialties including medicine, surgery, radiology, pathology, anaesthesia, obstetrics-gynaecology and paediatrics.

AKUH,N is also continuing to play a vital role as a major teaching site for the Advanced Nursing Studies programme of AKU, which has provided continuing professional education for practicing nurses in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda since 2001. With this new development, AKU aims to strengthen existing partnerships with the ministries of health and other universities in the region offering health sciences education, with a view to share experiences, strengthen public sector delivery systems and collaborate on teaching and research.

AKUH,N, a premier teaching and tertiary care referral hospital, invites applications from Kenyan nationals for the position of Internal Auditor.

This position reports to the Chief Executive Officer.

Responsibilities
The incumbent will aim to influence, create, promote and improve controls and provide competent, independent and objective assurance about the adequacy and effectiveness of key internal controls throughout the institution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide practical, proactive business advice/recommendations where controls are absent, ineffective or inefficient, through evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls, policies and procedures;
• Develop rolling audit plans based on risk assessments and the overall control environment (for instance due to increased use of IT, data security is one of the greatest corporate risks that needs continuous assessments and reviews);
• Lead and participate in periodic financial and operational audit projects, assignments and investigations, and risk assessments;
• Promote a control environment and awareness within the organisation;
• Continuously update and improve the in-house internal audit manual;
• Identify staff training needs and arrange training as appropriate;
• Review audit field work conducted by internal auditors and ensure that findings are factual and objective;
• Review draft audit reports prepared by auditors and re-draft them where necessary ensuring that recommendations are practical and cost-effective.
• Conduct follow-up/post implementation reviews to ensure managers act on agreed recommendations for improvement;
• Prepare monthly executive summaries of audit assignments undertaken for discussion with the CEO.

Requirements
Applicants must possess a Masters in Business Administration with professional qualifications as a Certified Public Accountant CPA (K) and Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) with a minimum five (5) years experience of which three (3) years would be in a professional audit firm and two (2) years in the industry in a managerial position.

To Apply
Applications together with detailed CVs, names of two referees with telephone numbers and email addresses, and copies of certificates and testimonials should be sent by August 22, 2008 to:

Manager, Recruitment
Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi
P.O. Box 30270 (00100), Nairobi, Kenya
Email: hr.recruitment@aku.edu

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.