1. Plans and conducts performance, compliance, financial, and financial-related audits, reviews, and inspections to improve efficiency and effectiveness of LSC and grantee operations, to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, and to identify and/or deter actual and potential fraud waste, abuse, and mismanagement.
2. Serves as the Audit Manager, auditor-in-charge or audit team member on projects. As Audit Manager, the incumbent is responsible for overall project management, provides independent and professional guidance to team members on all steps in the audit process, including reviewing working papers of team members, identifying significant audit findings, making authoritative recommendations, and resolving most complex audit issues. Assists in conducting audits, as necessary.
3. Devises techniques to analyze and evaluate audit evidence and results; develops analytical opinions, findings, and recommendations; and leads and conducts entrance and exit conferences with auditees.
4. Supervises one to two assigned auditors. Day-to-day supervision entails coaching and mentoring assigned staff, suggesting appropriate training classes, conducting annual performance management assessments and on-going check-ins, and approving timesheets and leave.
5. Prepares audit plans, audit programs, audit documentation, audit reports, and related correspondence; identifies significant audit areas that require decisions and presents recommendations and options on the direction the audit should take.
6. Reviews proposed changes to professional standards, principles, and guidelines, and provides comments with respect to the impact proposed changes would have on the OIG, LSC, and grantee operations.
7. Assists in the training of staff members.
8. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Conditions of employment

This position is not a federal government position and it does not have federal benefits nor would there be an annuity offset for a federal retiree.

Qualifications

General:

Solid leadership and management skills; excellent oral and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to craft solid written products that require minimal editing; strong judgment and discretion; high degree of flexibility, initiative, capacity for self-management, and exceptional attention to detail; strong organizational skills with demonstrated ability to draft procedures to address targeted areas of concerns; ability to manage multiple projects with shifting priorities under tight deadlines; unimpeachable integrity and personal ethics; ability to systematically organize and catalogue data and information; ability to influence, motivate, challenge, and inspire confidence among others; ability to develop and lead high performance/high morale teams and to foster teamwork and effective collaboration.

Technical/Specialized:

A bachelor's degree in accounting or in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting. The 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law. A minimum of eight (8) years of progressive specialized audit experience; or an equivalent combination of education and related experience totaling a minimum of eleven (11) years required. Specialized experience may include, auditing financial operations and accounts; reviewing and evaluating agency internal controls; or providing technical guidance for financial and performance audits of agency programs. Progressive responsibility with two of the six years of experience including auditor-in-charge experience. Demonstrated ability in auditing and/or accounting and in leading teams of professionals. Strong working knowledge of generally accepted government auditing standards and generally accepted accounting principles. Working knowledge of the laws and regulations relating to LSC and to nonprofit corporations. Expert knowledge of the principles, practices, and concepts involved with planning, conducting, and reporting on complex or high-visibility performance or financial audits and/or evaluations.

A graduate degree or a relevant certification, e.g., CPA, CISA, CIA, or CMA, is desired. Experience applying government auditing standards with a major CPA firm, a Federal Inspector General Office, or the Government Accountability Office is desired.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

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