Associate Director Internal Audits

We are seeking an Associate Director of Internal Audits. The scope of responsibility for this position covers the entire Johns Hopkins Institutions including the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and The Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS). This role is responsible for contributing to the overall strategic direction of the department while defining and executing the annual internal audit plan for the Johns Hopkins Institution related to the clinical areas.

Manage a Team of Professionals, with a Strong Focus on OHIA’s Values of

• Integrity – building ethical standards as a foundation.
• Excellence – the foundation of achieving excellence is maintaining objectivity.
• Respect – the foundation of building and maintaining relationships lies in the respect one shows each other.
• Collaboration – is evidenced by communication, problem solving, and conflict resolution through bringing together knowledge, experience, ideas and skills to achieve a common goal.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• In collaboration with Departmental Leadership team, including Chief Audit Officer, Executive Director, and Sr. Director of Information Technology Audits, contributes to the establishment and execution of the strategic plan for Office of Hopkins Internal Audits and ensures strategic initiatives are effectively carried out.
• Provides crucial leadership to internal audit staff, embraces vision and goals for internal audit and ensures alignment with those of the University and Health System. Effectively communicates vision and goals to staff, develops, leads and mentors a highly cohesive, engaged and inclusive team.
• Oversee and guide a team of managers in the development of an annual internal audit plan for clinical areas, utilizing an advanced risk assessment model to identify and prioritize risks to clinical activities and obtain management input and buy-in.
• Oversee a team of managers in the execution of the annual audit plan by measuring and communicating progress, proposing revisions to the plan to reflect new priorities, and ensuring the annual plan is completed taking into consideration unforeseen occurrences (e.g., employee turnover).
• In collaboration with managerial staff, scope projects and assign auditors to ensure timely and adequate execution of individual audit projects; provide clearly defined objectives based on key internal control objectives and associated risks.
• In collaboration with managerial staff, assure internal audit projects are performed according to department policies, procedures and standards (e.g., audit methodology, project management tools), staying within the scope and resource allocation limits (hours and timelines), and holding staff. accountable for meeting stated assigned objectives.
• Provide advanced direction to assigned team members on the performance of audits of key control processes and operational areas of the institutions.
• Collaborate with information technology auditors to identify and ensure coverage of information technology risks impacting clinically oriented operational audits.
• Keep customers of OHIA (e.g., process owners, PBO’s, senior leadership) informed on developing issues on internal audit projects.
• Assist in the negotiation of recommended changes in internal control practices and build consensus with upper-level management.
• Review, edit and approve draft internal audit reports.
• Oversee follow-up procedures of managers and staff to ensure managements agreed upon corrective actions are effectively implemented and consistently carried out.
• Independently interact with Senior Management.
• Summarize internal audit results and communicate with internal leadership and the Board of Trustees Audit Committees of JHU and JHHS.
• Recruit professional internal audit staff to support the mission of the organization.
• Hold managers accountable for providing timely feedback to professional staff on performance on internal audit projects and for annual performance evaluation.
• Assess performance of managers working under their direction.
• Work with assigned staff and managers to define annual professional development plans and monitor progress throughout the year.
• Develop effective working relationships with leaders of JHU and JHHS.
• Develop internal networks to raise awareness of audit issues.
• Develop external professional networks with the Association of Health Care Internal Auditors, the Health Care Finance Management Association, peer internal audit departments and other relevant professional organizations.
• Participate on committees that impact the processes/operation of the institutions.
• Keep abreast of developments in organization business areas and industry business practices.
• Monitor customer survey response rate, trend individual project responses and narrative comments.
• Champion internal control best practices, challenge cultural norms and work strategically to build consensus around practices to enhance the control environment or drive efficiencies in clinically oriented areas.
• Establish a culture that supports employee engagement and diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Partner effectively with external audit and institutional risk functions, including corporate compliance, risk management and others.
• Provide support of high-level institutional investigations and special projects.
• Interact with outsourced professional service firms to scope projects, negotiate fees and hold third-party firms accountable for high levels of quality in the execution of audit projects.