Principal Assurance Advisor

7 days ago

Wellington City, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Full time

Everything we do at MBIE is about growing New Zealand for all. We recognise that a strong economy is one in which we use the skills, knowledge and time of our people in conjunction with our natural resources, and financial and physical capital to improve the wellbeing of current and future generations.

The Principal Assurance Advisor reports to the Head of Portfolio Management and will play a key role in driving value added risk and assurance reviews across a key project within MBIE. The Principal Advisor will have demonstrated experience in leading Internal Audit and Assurance reviews, it would be beneficial to bring an understanding around facilitating Gateway Reviews and IQA’s.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leading the assurance activity within MBIE’s portfolio of change projects and providing consolidated reporting for governance bodies.
- Completing assurance reviews and fieldwork on workstreams, projects and programmes as well as liaising with external assurance providers when required for IQA and TQA work.
- Monitoring and advising the three lines of defence assurance activity so that it is carried out according to the Assurance Plan.
- Ensuring scope of those performing 3rd line of defence activities aligns with the plan, escalate any gaps or risks to management and adjust plan accordingly or raise additional risks
- Proactively contribute to the optimisation of assurance and reporting practice, and assistance in the refinement of the portfolio management processes.

**Requirements**:

- 5 + years in Internal Audit or Risk Management
- Demonstrated experience in delivery of assurance plan outputs to agreed quality measures
- Demonstrated ability to write high quality, engaging reports
- It would be beneficial to have experience with or qualifications in project, programme and portfolio qualifications (PMI, PRINCE2, MSP, MoP, Praxis, Agile, Management of Risk)
- It would be beneficial to have an understanding of the Gateway Review process
- The ability to gain and maintain a national security clearance as required.

This is an exciting opportunity to broaden your Assurance experience and take ownership over the delivery of Assurance reviews to a high-profile portfolio.

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