AUDITOR 2 - DCS INTERNAL AUDIT - DAVIDSON COUNTY - 80360

Annual Salary: $48,684.00 - $60,936.00

Hybrid Work Opportunity - Enjoy a work-life balance with our hybrid schedule allowing remote work most days, with in-office collaboration as required.

This position requires a criminal background check.

About the Role

The Department of Children's Services (DCS) is Tennessee's public child welfare agency. The purpose of the internal audit function is to strengthen the Department of Children's Services (DCS) ability to create, protect, and sustain value by providing the DCS Commissioner and management with independent, risk-based, and objective assurance, advice, insight, and foresight. The department follows the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global Internal Audit Standards in performing internal audit, assessments, and consulting activities.

DCS Internal Auditor 2s are responsible for completing audit interviews, audit work steps, and test work on a variety of different internal audit engagements, including subrecipient/recipient and contract monitoring engagements.

Under general supervision, employees in this class are responsible for professional auditing work of average difficulty and perform related work as required. This class is different from the Auditor 1 position that performs auditing duties at the entry level under immediate supervision. This class differs from that of Auditor 3, which performs more difficult and complex auditing duties and may lead or supervise other professional auditors.

This position requires occasional travel within Tennessee for on-site audits, advisory engagements, and stakeholder meetings. Travel for this position is estimated around 10-25 percent and will be within the State of Tennessee.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate compliance with policies and state and federal laws and regulations.
• Evaluate internal controls for adequacy and effectiveness.
• Analyze large datasets using Excel and/or ACL.
• Lead audit interviews and inquiries.
• Draft process flowcharts.
• Complete audit workpapers accurately and timely.
• Write audit findings ensuring the criteria, condition, cause, effect, and recommendation is clearly articulated.
• Evaluate the significance of audit exceptions noted.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in accounting or a Public Accountant in good standing and experience equivalent to one year of full-time professional auditing work.
• OR Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree including thirty-six quarter hours in accounting and experience equivalent to one year of full-time professional auditing work.

Substitution of Education for Experience: Additional graduate coursework in business administration with a major in accounting may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.