PASS - Internal Audit Services

DESCRIPTION OF REQUIREMENT: Work Stream 1: Internal Audit Services;

OBJECTIVE

To acquire the services of a consultant to act as an Internal Audit Manager to perform and manage key activities of the Internal Audit function of the Court Administrative Service.

Description of Resource Categories

Project Manager/Leader

Manages the project team during the planning, implementation and reporting phases of the audit Work. Ensures that resources are made available and that the project is developed and is fully implemented within agreed time, cost and performance parameters of the Contract.

Determines budgetary requirements, the composition, roles and responsibilities and deadlines for the project team.

Defines and documents the objectives and scope for the project. Identifies problems impeding successful completion of the project and proposes, develops and implements significantly new or modified audit approaches to solve them.

Reports progress of the project to the Project Authority on an ongoing basis and at scheduled points in the life cycle. Meets with audit management to outline audit objectives and approaches, to gather key perspectives, and to present audit observations and recommendations.

Prepares plans, charts, tables and diagrams to assist in presenting or displaying observations and recommendations

The requirement for audit support specialists must be addressed on a case-by-case basis with, and authorized by, the Contracting Authority, during the Request for Proposal stage in keeping with the Professional Audit Support Services Supply Arrangement.

SCOPE OF SERVICES

The Courts Administration Services is subject to the Treasury Board Policy on Internal Audit and accompanying directives and guidelines including the Directive on Chief Audit Executives, Internal Audit Plans, and Support to the Comptroller General and the Directive on Audit Committees and has implemented the key requirements of the policy and directives over the past year. In effect an Audit Committee was established and a multi-year plan developed.

In order to deliver on the plan, CAS requires the services of a consultant to act as an Internal Audit Manager to perform and manage key activities of the Internal Audit function including in Section 6.0 and Deliverables listed in Section 7.0.

The experience of the proposed resources must be clearly identified by providing a summary/description of the previous projects/work experience and indicating when the work was carried out. In the case where the timelines of two or more projects or experience overlap, the duration of time common to each project/experience will not be counted more than once.