Project 11
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Project Name Geo-Connection Grant and Contribution Program | Management Accountability Framework |
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Client Natural Resources of Canada – Office of Audit and Evaluation |
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Duration February to March 2009 [2 months] |
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Project Description |
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Lead and manage an operational and management accountability framework assurance and financial audits related to the grant and contribution for the GeoConnection Program. Develop and conduct preliminary survey, audit plan, procedures and audit result sheet. Formulate findings, conclusions and recommendations to effectively communicate the audit result. |
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Scope and objective |
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The goal of this audit was to provide to assess the level of efficiency of the service provided by the contracting office. |
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Dollar Value |
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Information available withheld with client |
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Contribution of the proposed resource to the project |
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Lead and managed the audit throughout the key audit process from the conduct stage to the debriefing of the preliminary report to Senior Management. Based on the observations found: – Responsible for the development and update of the strategic plan for the implementation of the conduct phase. – Provided and documented a few facilitation sessions to key members of the Office of Audit and Evaluation to review observations/findings and agreed on audit plan adjustment. – Developed the audit criteria based on a risk management framework, which lead to the development of a few mitigation strategies to facilitate the delivery of the mandate. – In complement to some of the mitigation strategies, delivered a series of informal coaching session to management. – Developed and implemented interactive audit tools to sufficiently and adequately support key element of the audit plan as per the IIA Standards which facilitated: o The application of the audit plan throughout the mandate; and, o Adequately support the findings of this audit as per the IIA Standards. – Using a risk management framework identified a series of audits criteria to be part of the audit tool that was used to ensure the application of the audit plan throughout the mandate. – Prepared and delivered a series of progress report presentations during weekly briefing session to senior management. – Audit Program was incorporated into TeamMate EWP and aligned to specific Organization, Risk and Internal Control Area. Audit supporting documentation was maintained and cross-referenced in EWP TeamMate module. TeamCentral was used to coordinate the updating, reviewing and sign-off process. The EWP module was also used to raise exception/issue supported by findings with recommendation that were available for further review in TeamCentral. Recurring Interview Note, Sampling Calculator and Manual Testing procedure were incorporated to further enhanced TeamStore configuration. These templates were disseminated though TeamStore as best practice for other audit. Propose implementation of corrective action at the data governance and management level to adress the data integrity weaknesses. – This mandate is supporting business process transformation and it requires expertise in assessment of organizational role and responsibility. |
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Deliverables |
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Result will be available once the external audit committee has been debriefing and report has been approved for publication release on NRCan’s web site. |
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References: Joe Freamo, Chief Audit Executive (613) 996-4940
Anne-Marie Muldoon, Manager, (613) 947-0376 |
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Technological platform leverage during this mandate |
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