Internal Audit Office

The Office performs audits on organisational units, working processes and IT procedures and infrastructures of the Institute. These audits generally regard the aspects of effectiveness, efficiency and safety, including the management of risks and resources as well as compliance with rules and procedures.

It assesses the adequacy of the internal control and risk management systems and promotes their continuous improvement.

It may propose suggestions for improvement of work processes ensuring, when requested, collaboration on specific issues or projects; it carries out special assignments such as administrative inquiries, on the occurrence of specific events.

The internal auditors have the right to have unlimited access to the data, documents and information they believe necessary for the performance of their mandate.

The organisational units immediately report to the Office any anomaly which might - even only potentially - have an impact on the regularity and correct functioning of IVASS' activities; they provide data, documents and information that are useful for the purposes of the auditing activity, including the performance of off-site analyses and interventions; they communicate the actions taken to solve the problems found during the audits.

The audits, conducted in compliance with the specific methodologies adopted by the Office and shared with the Board of Directors, are based on the criteria of efficiency, clarity, exhaustiveness and disclosure in communication.

The Office carries out its activities with no regard to hierarchy and in compliance with the special standards approved by the Board, to which it directly reports.

Head of Office: Marina Mieli
(appointed by resolution n. 118/2014 of 9 December 2014)

Number of staff: 7