Use this sample and step by step explanation to craft a meaningful employee performance feedback review for an external audit senior. Find the right words with quality phrases.

An External Audit Senior is responsible for ensuring successful completion of assigned audit engagements. This includes preplanning, administration, and management of the entire process. This position reports to the Internal Audit Senior Management team.

General duties include, conducting assigned audit engagements successfully from beginning to end, identifying and communicating issues that have come up while offering solutions that are relevant to business and risk, developing an audit program and testing procedures that are related to risk and test objectives, ensuring adherence at all times to all the applicable departments and professional standards, supervising and offering guidance to junior auditors assigned to engagements

Employee Performance Review Sample

Employee's Name: Title:
Review Period: __/__/__ to __/__/__ Employee SSN:
Work Location: Supervisor's Name:

Instructions

  1. Rating: Rate the employee against the core skills based on how well he/she demonstrates each skill. Give scores 1, 2, or 3 for each rating depending on the employee's performance.
  2. Comments: Use this area to give examples of employee's performance phrases. The phrases should describe how well an employee has performed on previously set goals based on the given core skill.
  3. Summary: Use this section to give a summary of the employee's strengths and areas for improvement or development. Recommend a step increase for an employee who has met the expectations and performance improvement plans for one who doesn't meet expectations.
  4. Human Resources Review: Human resources manager must examine and indicate whether he/she concurs with the evaluation and comments. If the manager agrees, then he/she must sign the evaluation form. If he/she doesn't concur, then he/she must provide reasons explaining why this is so.
  5. Signatures: Sign the evaluation form and give it to the employee to go through and answer the Self Evaluation Questions. Ask him/her to sign and date the evaluation form before giving it back to the human resources for filing.

Rating Meaning

The employee fails to perform the most important aspects of the job satisfactorily. Requires close guidance to carry out routine jobs. He/she needs significant improvement in all areas. Meetings should be held between the employee and the supervisor to discuss performance deficiencies.

1

Employee routinely meets and exceeds expectations in all areas of responsibility. Produces high-quality work that at times exceeds expectations. Consistently meets the most critical annual goals. Occasionally produces timely and accurate results.

2

The employee consistently and significantly exceeds the communicated expectations by producing exceptionally high-quality work. He/she demonstrates exceptional knowledge of his/her duties and is highly recognized by others as an authority in his/her area of work.

3

Supervisor's Feedback

Skill

Comments

Rating

ACCURACY: Accuracy refers to the closeness of a measured value to a known value or standard that is passed by the governing laws.

Does tasks and assignments while in a busy and chaotic environment.

Always compromises on quality by not following the required standard procedures.

1

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS: Interpersonal Skills are a set of abilities that enable a person to positively interact and work with others effectively while avoiding office disputes and personal issues with each other.

Tries as much as possible to make people feel comfortable at all times.

Knows how and when to give constructive feedback to others and easily accepts correction.

2

SUPERVISORY SKILLS: Supervisory Skills is the ability to lead and manage people effectively in a difficult and challenging atmosphere in the day to day life.

Fails to provide a working environment that meets the subordinate's expectations

Always complaining about the workforce but does nothing to better it

1

APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS: Appraisal and Evaluation Skills are services that allow employers to assess their employees? contributions to the organization for the period they have been working with them.

Highly inconsistent in meeting deadlines for the scheduled assessment period

Does not give credible results on employee assessments already undertaken

1

WORK ATTITUDE: Work Attitude is one's feelings towards and beliefs about one's job and their behavior that can tell how it feels to be there.

Certain about capability to get any job done and done well

Seeks opportunities to show others what can be done with ease and what needs much work

2

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: Personal Relationships is the relationship between individuals who have or have had a continuing relationship of any nature either professional or informal.

Writes notes of appreciation to employees who are doing exemplary work, makes positive contributions and goes beyond the call of duty

Practices common courtesy by making eye contact and referring to colleagues by their names in order to create a smooth working environment

2

PROBLEM/SITUATION ANALYSIS: Problem/Situation Analysis is the ability to solve problems and assess situations to know what kind of solution is required to calm it down.

Faces the problem alone without involving other people's ideas and therefore ends up spending more time on the problem than expected

Does not create time to do exercises that improve one's ability to think strategically and analytically

1

DEADLINES - ON TIME: Deadlines - On time is the ability to prioritize the important tasks and setting up a plan on how to work on them first to deliver within the set period.

Puts off projects when one feels that the deadline is not close thus delays the project or fails to complete it

Does not know how to improve own concentration when one is faced with distractions

1

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: Knowledge Management is the ability to manage knowledge and information that is presented to the company from different sources without overlooking any of them.

Hardly reviews the knowledge requirements for new tasks and does not understand when to seek for new knowledge

Demonstrated unwillingness to share own skills, experience, and knowledge with colleagues and does not assist others when they need knowledge

1

TECHNOLOGY SAVVY: Technology Savvy is the introduction of the digital technology in the workplace as a strategy to make tasks run swiftly against doing them manually.

Lacks enough capacity to work anytime from anywhere and on any device

Makes little effort to learn how to operate modern electronic devices

1

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

ACCURACY:

Are you keen when it comes to gathering data and information?

Are you someone who needs constant monitoring or supervision to deliver reliable work?

[employee comments]
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:

Are you always approachable or people tend to find it hard to approach you?

Do you normally take the time to build meaningful and positive relationships with others?

[employee comments]
SUPERVISORY SKILLS:

Do you understand your core roles and responsibilities as a supervisor?

Are you reliable to give a competent report on each employee's abilities?

[employee comments]
APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS:

Do you find fault with some of the employees you assess?

Do you treat the employees the same even the weak ones?

[employee comments]
WORK ATTITUDE:

Are you focused on doing a thorough work on all tasks assigned without any complaint?

How do you handle workplace stress and work related pressures?

[employee comments]
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

Can you describe an experience that showcases your ability to work and relate well with other employees in the workplace?

Describe a time when you have met resistance while trying to build a relationship with a colleague. How did you deal with it?

[employee comments]
PROBLEM/SITUATION ANALYSIS:

How do you weigh the advantages and disadvantages of a solution before implementing it?

What are some of the challenges that you have encountered when analyzing problems and how have you faced them?

[employee comments]
DEADLINES - ON TIME:

Describe a time when you have had to work under a tight deadline. What methods did you use to meet the deadline?

Is there a time when you faced a problem when handling a task? How did this affect your mini-deadlines and the actual deadline?

[employee comments]
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT:

What are you doing to improve your capabilities of reviewing knowledge requirements for new tasks?

What efforts are you making to stay alerted with new knowledge?

[employee comments]
TECHNOLOGY SAVVY:

Have you ever utilized the power of modern computing power to assist you in making better decisions?

What efforts are you making to learn how to troubleshoot modern electronic devices?

[employee comments]

Summary

Sections 1-4: To be completed by the supervisor

Section 5: To be completed by the employee

1. Exceeds Job Related Expectations

2. Areas to improve

3. Goals completed since last performance feedback

4. Goals for next period

5. Employee comments

Signatures

I acknowledge that I discussed this performance feedback with my supervisor. My signature does not mean that I agree or disagree with this appraisal.
Employee: Date:
Supervisor: Date:
Human Resources: Date:

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