Director, Audit

Join a leadership group transforming education in NSW, and make a difference to students in NSW
- A value driven organisation that supports flexible working and offers work life balance
- Ongoing Public Service Senior Executive Band 1 role with a remuneration range of $257,097 - $281,200 per annum
- Based in Parramatta with flexible work options

**About us**
Our purpose in Education is to equip young people to lead rewarding lives in a complex and fast-changing world. This is important because the learners of today are the foundation of a prosperous Australia tomorrow.

To support our young people to thrive, we must ensure we are one of the best education systems in the world. This means building a system focused on student outcomes, and a system that offers a great place to work. Explore the Department of Education website for more information.

The Operations Group is responsible for providing high-quality services and support to the Education system. This includes:

- Ensuring that the cluster makes the best use of our resources to improve education outcomes for children and young people
- Making sure that schools and the Department have the right technology to support the delivery of education and simplifying administrative processes.

**About the role**
The Director, Audit acting as the Chief Audit Executive of the Department, leads the design, and implementation of a framework to enable effective delivery of independent, systematic and objective reviews and appraisals of all financial, operational and management systems, processes, functions and activities within the Department. This is to give assurance to the Audit and Risk Committee and the Secretary of the effectiveness and appropriateness of governance, risk management and internal controls.

The Director, Audit develops and maintains a quality assurance and improvement program covering all aspects of the internal audit activity to ensure compliance with NSW Government and Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Standards.

The role accountabilities will include:

- Provide expert leadership and strategic direction by developing audit plans that assess operational performance to ensure the Department’s priorities reflect Government, and Department frameworks, policies and guidelines, in a manner that contributes to the improvement of governance, risk management, control processes and fraud corruption control
- Maintain awareness of current developments and emerging issues affecting the Department, consulting with the Audit and Risk Committee and senior management to determine audit priorities and ensure the audit program is consistent with organisational goals and objectives
- Manage the staff, programs and resources of the Audit Directorate to drive and evaluate operational performance outcomes through a risk-based framework, implementing audit plans with appropriate controls and processes that cover assurance, operational and compliance reviews and risk-based advice and which contribute to the achievement of the department’s Plan for Public Education.

**About you**

You will be an experienced people leader who will have the ability to mentor and develop the team and ensure best practice. You will demonstrate expertise in financial management, internal control compliance, auditing procedures and risk management.

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- Ability to build relationships and partnerships whilst having the confidence to influence and deliver key outcomes
- Effective written and verbal communication skills to be able to engage with various stakeholders
- Experience in a leadership role in areas of operations, service delivery, program and project management
- Demonstrated experience in leading a large and complex audit function, deep technical skills and extensive experience in developing and executing high quality and relevant internal audit programs including planning, fieldwork, reporting, and review through to sign-off and completion.
- Demonstrated extensive experience at a senior level in the management of a large, complex organisation, working closely with/providing strategic advice to senior executives, ARC members and external providers in providing timely assurance.
- Demonstrated strong ethical standards and integrity, with strong communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships at all levels of the organisation and with external stakeholders.
- Experience in undertaking and reviewing complex investigation and review projects that have a wide-ranging impact on organisational objectives.
- Detailed knowledge of public sector accounting practices and requirements and best in class risk-based audit methodologies and practices, including information technology audit principles.
- Comprehensive knowledge of key state and/or commonwealth legislation related to audit’s assurance over compliance activities.
- Knowledge of and commitment to implementing the Department’s Aboriginal Educ