Post of duty: HQ, Washington DC
The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
About this position
The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
The Office of the Executive Auditor (AUG) has a Mission to increase the likelihood of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group achieving its goals and objectives through the provision of independent and objective assurance and consulting services on governance, risk management, and control processes, in accordance with ethical and relevant professional standards, and improvements to the organization's accountability and transparency for results.
A long-term AUG Strategy and Risk Based Annual Plans include a variety of demands that are incorporated in audit engagements as well as cross cutting departmental initiatives that increasingly involve the review of information technology (IT) digital and data analytics processes, as well as an important component of audit techniques innovation, exploration, and transformation.
This includes disciplines associated with IT assurance, including IT General Controls (ITGC), applications systems controls, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and data governance, as well as the data science and advanced audit analytics on structured and unstructured information through a range of techniques, from standard query languages (SQL), MS Office, robot process automation (RPA) and process mining tools, to natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GenAI).
AUG is looking for audit consultants' experts in IT assurance, audit analytics, and/or audit techniques for innovation/exploration.
As AUG Consultant specialized in advanced IT assurance, audit analytics, or audit innovation/exploration, you will perform audit-related work in accordance with audit standards and AUG procedures, to support the achievement of AUG strategy while helping the completion of the RBAP by contributing to individual audit engagements covering governance and control environment, financial, human capital and information technology resources, as well as, IT governance, corporate, administration and risk management matters.
You will work with a strongly motivated, fast paced, innovative and high-quality team in AUG together with players in the rest of the IDB promoting the good governance and management of emerging and transformational solutions. The consultant will work closely with the AUG Management, Lead Auditors and corresponding audit teams to discuss and contribute to the identification of relevant risk and controls. Perform research, analysis, testing and produce documentation as part of audit work programs, and contribute to report drafting and supporting communications and presentations included in the RBAP engagements.
What you'll do
Perform ITGC and application controls audit-related work in accordance with audit standards and AUG procedures, needed for the completion of specific engagement to be assigned in due time. Develop, test, and deliver advanced audit analytics on structured and unstructured information through SQL, MS Office tools, NLP, ML, AI or GenAI solutions. Develop dashboards in Power BI to communicate the results of the audit analytics. Propose, develop, test, and/or deliver proof of concepts (POC), minimal value products (MPV), prototypes, project pilots, and early stages of new innovative, high impact and transformative audit solutions, process mining, or business processes reengineering, that can be explored and scaled for the benefits of AUG function and the IDB Group as a whole. What you'll need
Education: Master's degree in Computer Science or other fields relevant to the responsibilities of the role. Experience: At least 5 years of data analytics and/or developing ML/AI algorithms or with process mining experience. Languages: Proficiency in English and one of the other Bank official languages (Spanish, French or Portuguese) is required. Key skills
IT assurance, ITGC auditing and application controls auditing. Data science and advanced audit data analytics using ML, AI, or GenAI. Innovation, digital transformation, process mining, and audit techniques exploration Learn continuously. Collaborate and share knowledge. Focus on clients. Communicate and influence. Innovate and try new things. Requirements
Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries. Consanguinity : You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab. Type of contract and duration
Type of contract: International Consultant Full-Time. Length of contract: 24 months . Work Location: On site. What we offer
The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee's life. These benefits include:
A competitive compensation packages. Leaves and vacations : 2 days per month of contract + gender- neutral parental leave. Health Insurance : the IDB Group provides a monthly allowance for the purchase of health insurance. Savings plan : ???????The IDB Group cares about your future, depending on the length of the contract, you will receive a monthly savings plan allowance. We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family when it applies. Hybrid and flexible work schedules. Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more. Health and wellbeing: Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees. Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, and others. Our culture
At the IDB Group we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work, willing to try new approaches without fear, and where they are accountable and rewarded for their actions.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at to request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.
About the IDB Group
The IDB Group, composed of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB Invest, and the IDB Lab offers flexible financing solutions to its member countries to finance economic and social development through lending and grants to public and private entities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
