Auditor (1 & 2)

About the role

This position requires work schedule flexibility as required to perform audits of City operations that are 24 hours/7 days per week. May provide functional supervision over assigned staff.

Responsibilities

• Participates with other auditors in performing financial, contract compliance, grant, and performance/operational audits in accordance with generally accepted governmental auditing standards.
• Provides support activities for the City's external financial and single audits, special investigations, and advisory services to Council and their staff.
• Develops audit project summaries, scope, objectives, and methodology with related resource allocation budget and time schedule.
• Contributes to annual audit plan risk assessment and planning, and related City budget process review.
• Performs assigned audit procedures as assigned; identifies and defines issues; develops criteria; collects, reviews, analyzes, and verifies evidence; and prepares working papers to document audit steps performed, conclusions, and results.
• Evaluates basic management controls, identifies control weaknesses, and formulates recommendations to improve the control environment.
• Attends and participates in conferences and meetings about the assigned projects.
• Provides limited work direction and guidance to less experienced auditors.
• Researches and analyzes State and Federal laws, regulations, policies, procedures, grant audit guides, and contract provisions pertaining to programs or activities to be audited.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Accounting, or a business field with significant quantitative analysis.
• A valid Class "C" Texas Driver's License OR valid driver's license from another state with the ability to obtain a valid Texas Driver's License within 30 days of becoming a Texas resident.

Qualifications

• One (1) year total of auditing, accounting, or related analytical business experience.

Skills

• Knowledge of appropriate professional standards, including Governmental Auditing Standards.
• Knowledge of basic elements of controls as defined by Government Auditing Standards including control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communication, and monitoring.
• Knowledge of basic investigative techniques and analysis.
• Knowledge of basic working paper preparation, indexing, and organization.
• Knowledge of the common corporate, governmental, or non-profit policies, operating methods, and procedures; of statutes and departmental regulations affecting audit assignments; of governmental accounting and auditing procedures and techniques; and of legal, business, and accounting terms.
• Knowledge of technical and management report writing procedures and techniques, including appropriate grammar, spelling, and diction.
• Knowledge of computer accounting and financial record keeping and reporting systems.
• Knowledge of pertinent Federal, State, and local laws, regulations and ordinances.
• Knowledge and application of contemporary office management and organization procedures and practices, including data back up, optical imaging, electronic document management and paperless record keeping.
• Ability to perform resource logistics requirements and performance reporting.
• Ability to gather relevant information and document results effectively by identifying the subject, source, purpose, and conclusion.
• Ability to effectively perform assignments within agreed upon budget hours and deadlines.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Ability to understand audit data, documents, and reports.
• Ability to cooperate with assistant auditors by sharing information, presenting ideas and concerns, and answering questions.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, City Council Members and their staff, City Management and their staff, vendors and contract service providers, taxpayers, and the public.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of information.
• Ability to work at will, and to work a flexible schedule.
• Ability to perform all the physical with or without accommodations, intellectual, and analytical requirements of the position.