Desired start date : 01/09/2025
End date: until 01/16/2026
Location: Clichy, France
What we do…
SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL (SI) is an international humanitarian aid association that, for over 40 years, has been providing relief to populations affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters by meeting their basic needs, such as food, water, and shelter. Particularly committed to combating diseases linked to unsafe water, the world’s leading cause of death, SI’s interventions leverage expertise in the areas of access to drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion, as well as in the essential area of food security and livelihoods. Present in 26 countries, SI’s teams—a total of 3,200 people, including expatriates, national employees, permanent staff at headquarters, and a few volunteers—operate with professionalism and commitment while respecting cultures.
Job Description e
The External Audit support has the following functions:
- Coordinate SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL’s internal response to DG ECHO’s Compliance AUDIT exercise which will take place at headquarters in November and December 2025,
- Coordinate the research and prior control of supporting documents to be presented to auditors,
- Manage the necessary interactions with country offices and headquarters departments as part of this audit,
- Facilitate communication with the external auditors mandated for this audit.
ACTIVITES
Coordination of the audit exercise
- Ensures the coordination and monitoring of the exercise schedule, ensuring that deadlines are met by the various internal stakeholders.
- Develops and updates monitoring tools dedicated to audit conduct to ensure optimal management of the response to auditor requests.
- Leads internal coordination meetings, if necessary, with headquarters and/or field teams, including capacity building if necessary, to ensure that stakeholders understand their expectations.
- Ensures the updating of all internal systems and databases relating to his/her responsibilities;
- Responds to requests for technical and/or methodological support from country offices and headquarters departments during the financial year and provides technical guidance and advice;
Conducting Compliance Audit
- Acts as a focal point between SOLIDARITES INTERNATIONAL and external auditors: organizes exchanges, responds to requests, facilitates communication with headquarters and field teams;
- Manages the documentary collection of elements requested by auditors: Supervises and monitors the search for field documents; Searches for headquarters documents;
- Carry out an internal pre-audit of the supporting documents for expenditure selections collected by the field or headquarters;
- Report non-compliance risks to the Department Manager;
- Manages the processing of non-compliance risks;
- Prepares files to be sent to auditors;
- Participates in the reading and analysis of the provisional audit report;
- If necessary, proposes corrective measures to the preliminary findings issued by the auditors;
- Prepares communications and internal reporting elements post-audit.
Organization and team life
- Acts as the focal point for head office and field business representatives on this audit;
- Ensures the necessary coordination with the departments and fields concerned for effective monitoring of the audit and related compliance issues;
- Provides regular reporting to the Department Manager;
- Participate in meetings and service life;
Your profile
Training and Experience
- Higher education (technical, university, engineering or business school) in financial management, compliance, humanitarian cooperation / Development, Political Science, or any other relevant diploma;
- Significant experience in conducting external audits;
- Minimum 2 years of experience in field support functions, including coordination positions.
Desired skills and qualities
- In-depth knowledge of the humanitarian sector essential;
- Mastery of internal control methodologies and tools and knowledge of internal IT procedures;
- Mastery of DG ECHO financing rules and good understanding of DG ECHO expenditure eligibility rules;
- Rigor and analytical skills;
- Ability to work across departments and quality of coordination;
- Proficiency in the Office suite, very good proficiency in Excel;
- Fluency in French and English, both spoken and written.
IF will offer you the following conditions
- Position based at the headquarters of Solidarités International, in Clichy la Garenne (Metro Mairie de Clichy)
- Contract – 4 and a half month fixed-term contract – Executive status
- Gross monthly salary of: €3,183 or €3,316 (Level 6) depending on the scale in force at headquarters
- Teleworking is available: 4 or 12 days of teleworking per month, or 100% teleworking with 3 days of mandatory face-to-face work per month. In accordance with the current Teleworking Charter and the manager.
- Leave: 2.0833 CP / month and 1 day of RTT / full month of work
How to apply
Do you recognize yourself in this description?
If so, send us your CV and cover letter.
Applications containing only CVs will not be considered.
Solidarités International reserves the right to close a recruitment process before the deadline. Thank you for your understanding.
And to find out more about Solidarités International: www.solidarites.org
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Solidarités International (SI) is committed to preventing and combating any type of abuse—any act of sexual exploitation, abuse, and/or harassment (SEAH) against members of beneficiary communities or its employees, harm to persons and/or property, fraud, corruption, undeclared conflicts of interest, or the financing of activities that violate human rights—that may be perpetrated in the context of its operations. SI has a zero-tolerance policy for any type of abuse, particularly acts of SEAH.
Solidarités International is a fair-trade employer that combats all forms of discrimination. SI will never request any compensation for participating in a recruitment process.