Background

The Office of the Auditor General (OAG)

is Rwanda's Supreme Audit Institution. It derives its mandate from Articles 166 and 167 of the Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda. This mandate is detailed in the law N° 79/2013 of 11/09/2013, determining the mission, organisation and functioning of the Office of the Auditor General of State Finances. The Office has legal personality, financial and administrative autonomy

OAG is responsible for the followings:

OAG offers great opportunities for career growth, training and above all, an opportunity to serve the nation in promoting accountability, transparency and best practice in Government operations as a mean to good governance. To fulfil its mandate, the Office of the Auditor General of State Finances wishes to recruit competent and skilled staff for the following positions

• Auditing and reporting on accounts of all public entities, local administrative entities, public enterprises, parastatal organisations and projects
• Conducting financial, compliance, performance (economy, efficiency and effectiveness) and special audits in respect of expenditure in all institutions referred to above
• Conducting accountability, management and strategic audits of accounts in the institutions mentioned above.

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities are:

• Provide technical support and advice to audit staff on assigned audit assignments from planning, execution and reporting
• Review audit working papers and audit reports, ensuring audit reports are appropriate in the circumstances and supported by appropriate audit evidence
• Identify skills gaps and training needs through performance evaluations of audit staff supervised and provide hands on training to address the skills gap
• Develop and implement capacity building strategies for individual audit staff aimed at accelerated hands-on learning
• Promote continuous learning of audit staff by coming up with innovative audit guides, templates etc. and through formal class room training
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of capacity building initiative and recommend improvements
• Support OAG in adopting new standards, tools and processes aimed at enhancing efficiency and effectiveness
• Support OAG in implementation of its quality management system to minimise quality audit risk at assignment and institutional levels
• Prepare monthly reports on progress of skills transfer, including outcomes and recommendations for improvement
• and Facilitate other institutional capacity development activities that may be assigned by Management from time to time.

Job Requirement:

Job Requirement

• Bachelors degree in accounting or finance or economics from a recognized University for compliance and financial audit
• Professional qualification in Accounting recognised by IFAC (ACCA and CPA) Proven knowledge of public financial management systems, laws and regulations covering all aspects of public expenditure management
• Proven experience in Supreme Audit Institution audit methodology
• Proven experience in audit of financial statements prepared using fair presentation accounting frameworks (IPSAS and IFRS)
• At least ten (10) years of working experience with an audit firm/Supreme Audit Institutions
• including proven experience of two (2) years in leading audit teams at the level of Audit Manager and above
• Be a Rwandan citizen.