Senior Internal Controls, Audit Remediation, Readiness, and Risk Management Consultant
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections where there is real specific content. We need to parse the job posting. First, remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Job Family Finance & Accounting Consulting Travel Required Up to 10% Clearance Required Ability to Obtain Public Trust" maybe part of metadata; we can fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract sections: - About the role / What You Will Do: The paragraph starting "Our professionals help our clients..." and then description of work. Also "Primary Support Areas" and "Additional/Secondary Support Areas" and "More broadly, this team member will be engaged..." and "In addition to client-facing responsibilities...". So we can combine into a Responsibilities section. - Requirements: "What You Will Need" includes: Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred. Bachelor’s degree FIVE (5) years of experience in financial management, accounting, internal controls, audit or another related financial field. - Qualifications / What Would Be Nice To Have: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration, Master’s degree in Accounting, Certification(s) Preferred: CPA, CGFM, knowledge of OMB Circular A-123 etc. Also list many knowledge/experience items. - Skills: Could be derived from "Demonstrates Proven Thorough Abilities In The Following Areas" and "Ability to ..." etc. Also "Possesses strong oral and written communication skills" etc. Might be a Skills section. - Benefits: "What We Offer" includes benefits list. - Pay: Not mentioned explicitly; no salary. So we should NOT include Pay section. - Schedule: Not mentioned; maybe travel up to 10% but that's not schedule. So no Schedule. We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /. Use
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to decide which sections to include: About the role (maybe "About the role" heading). Responsibilities (maybe "Responsibilities"). Requirements. Qualifications. Skills. Benefits.
We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Not needed.
We need to fold minor metadata like Job Family etc into a short
or drop it. We can include a short paragraph at top summarizing job family, travel, clearance. But the instruction: "do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." So we can include a
with that metadata.
Let's craft:
Job Family: Finance & Accounting Consulting; Travel Required: Up to 10%; Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust.
Then sections.
Now content:
About the role: maybe we can have a short paragraph summarizing role: "Our professionals help our clients to identify, evaluate, and solve some of their most complex challenges, assisting them in achieving their strategic goals and objectives to fulfill their mission." That's from the first paragraph. Could be included.
But we also have a Responsibilities section with detailed duties.
We could combine About the role and Responsibilities into one "Responsibilities" section with heading Responsibilities
and then a for overview and
for list.
But the instruction: Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have both About the role and Responsibilities as separate headings if content exists. However we should avoid thin sections. Let's see if we have enough for About the role: we have a paragraph describing what professionals do. That's substantive. Could be About the role.
Then Responsibilities: we have detailed list of duties (Primary Support Areas, Additional/Secondary Support Areas, more broadly, etc). That's substantive.
Thus we can have both.
Now Requirements: we have bullet points: Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred. Bachelor’s degree FIVE (5) years of experience in financial management, accounting, internal controls, audit or another related financial field.
We can format as - ... etc.
Qualifications / What Would Be Nice To Have: list of nice-to-have items.
Skills: list of abilities.
Benefits: list.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO etc. At the end there is a lot of EEO statement; we must remove.
Also remove "About Guidehouse" etc.
Now let's extract content precisely.
First, the metadata line: "Job Family Finance & Accounting Consulting Travel Required Up to 10% Clearance Required Ability to Obtain Public Trust". We'll make a short p.
Now "What You Will Do" section:
Our professionals help our clients to identify, evaluate, and solve some of their most complex challenges, assisting them in achieving their strategic goals and objectives to fulfill their mission. We help our clients transform their business processes, improve efficiency of operations, evaluate and improve internal controls, strengthen policies and controls, increase transparency and performance management, and comply with Federal laws and regulations. The nature of our projects can be fluid and requires self-motivated individuals that are willing to develop solutions on their own or in a team of highly skilled professionals. Project team members are provided the opportunity to interact with our clients’ senior management, as well as the opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of technical competency, business development, client service, leadership, project management, and people development.
That's the prose for About the role.
Now "Primary Support Areas" bullet list (though not using bullet symbols but sentences separated by periods). We need to convert to
- . The content:
Supporting annual internal control planning efforts to determine the scope of internal control assessment efforts and testing to be performed based on the risk profile of the organization and specific financial risks that have been identified through financial risk assessments and tracking.
Evaluating internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR) and internal controls over operations in line with OMB Circular A-123 for a range of financial and business process areas, to including performing end-to-end walkthroughs of business processes, documenting business processes and controls, testing the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls, and reporting on deficiencies.
Performing internal controls over operations and assessments of improper payments in support of the Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA).
Providing audit liaison support services to help facilitate a smooth financial statement audit process, including development and maintenance of digital tools that enable more efficient audit activities.
Providing a broad range of financial statement audit and audit risk management and remediation support that support the agency's goals to maintain a clean audit opinion and improve internal controls.
Then "Additional/Secondary Support Areas":
Providing financial risk management program support to include maintaining the agency's financial risk register (identifying, evaluating, and tracking financial risks and their mitigation strategies across the enterprise), completing annual fraud risk assessments, and preparation of the annual Statement of Assurance completed by the head of the agency.
Supporting the development and execution of risk mitigation plans, corrective action plans, and broader remediation strategies designed to address financial risks and internal control or audit deficiencies and strengthen financial processes.
Assessing the impact of new guidance on financial operations and supporting the implementation of new guidance when applicable.
Completing Entity Level Control (ELC) assessments and testing, including developing materials to perform the assessment, interviewing and surveying management and other client personnel, and compiling results to show data and assessment conclusions.
More broadly, this team member will be engaged in a diverse set of project-specific tasks covering a broad set of consulting capabilities, including:
Apply a variety of analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills and techniques
Documenting and evaluating business processes and making recommendations for process improvements
Producing a variety of communications from informal email interactions with clients to formal memos, issue papers, presentations, executive briefings, and others
Conducting research to investigate client problems and work collaboratively with your team to formulate and recommend solutions
Assist clients in analyzing projects and programs to identify risks and help develop, apply, and monitor mitigations
Support clients in collecting and analyzing data, producing models and visualizations, and draw conclusions from the data to improve decision-making
Analyze and help develop and/or improve policies and procedures for a variety of programs and operational needs
Then "In addition to client-facing responsibilities, this role will support important activities that contribute to the growth of our business, strengthen internal Guidehouse operations, and create a positive work environment for all Guidehouse employees. Some of these activities include but are not limited to:
Assisting in business development activities, such as identifying potential client needs and ways Guidehouse can assist, developing proposals and white papers, participating in client and internal account meetings, and more
Participating in Guidehouse’s programs for coaching and mentoring staff
Assisting in the development of learning and development materials, courses, and presentations to help Guidehouse employees expand and strengthen their skills
Support Guidehouse programs and initiatives for recruiting top talent to the company"
We can include these as part of Responsibilities as well.
Thus Responsibilities section will have a
overview maybe the first paragraph from "What You Will Do"? Actually we already used that for About the role. For Responsibilities we can start with a
summarizing that the role supports... but we can also just go straight to
list of duties. However we need for prose; we can include a short prose sentence before the list.
Now Requirements section: "What You Will Need". We'll extract:
Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
Bachelor’s degree
FIVE (5) years of experience in financial management, accounting, internal controls, audit or another related financial field
We can make each as
- .
Now Qualifications / What Would Be Nice To Have:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration
Master’s degree in Accounting
Certification(s) Preferred: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Governmental Financial Manager (CGFM)
Knowledge of and experience with Federal financial management activities, including but not necessarily limited to: OMB Circular A-123 assessments for internal controls over financial reporting; Federal financial statement audits; financial risk management, financial policy, entity-level controls and/or management controls.
Knowledge of and experience advising Federal clients on applications of OMB Circular A-123, Appendix A and C, the GAO Green Book, the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, Federal Financial Integrity Act of 1982 (FMFIA), and Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA).
Federal accounting, including the United States Standard General Ledger (USSGL) and Treasury Financial Manual, and knowledge of Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA)
Experience working in teams to produce high-impact work products, reports, and other deliverables in a fast-paced environment
Possesses strong oral and written communication skills
Heightened attention to detail, and the ability to create and edit technical and non-technical written work products and graphical presentations
Ability to view problems from multiple angles and apply a variety of solutions to solving them
Ability to participate in client-facing discussions and meetings
Ability to synthesize information quickly and learn new skills
Des
for prose. We need to decide which sections to include: About the role (maybe "About the role" heading). Responsibilities (maybe "Responsibilities"). Requirements. Qualifications. Skills. Benefits. We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Not needed. We need to fold minor metadata like Job Family etc into a short
or drop it. We can include a short paragraph at top summarizing job family, travel, clearance. But the instruction: "do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." So we can include a
with that metadata. Let's craft:
Job Family: Finance & Accounting Consulting; Travel Required: Up to 10%; Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust.
Then sections. Now content: About the role: maybe we can have a short paragraph summarizing role: "Our professionals help our clients to identify, evaluate, and solve some of their most complex challenges, assisting them in achieving their strategic goals and objectives to fulfill their mission." That's from the first paragraph. Could be included. But we also have a Responsibilities section with detailed duties. We could combine About the role and Responsibilities into one "Responsibilities" section with headingResponsibilities
and then afor overview and
- for list.
But the instruction: Use
- ... etc.
Qualifications / What Would Be Nice To Have: list of nice-to-have items.
Skills: list of abilities.
Benefits: list.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO etc. At the end there is a lot of EEO statement; we must remove.
Also remove "About Guidehouse" etc.
Now let's extract content precisely.
First, the metadata line: "Job Family Finance & Accounting Consulting Travel Required Up to 10% Clearance Required Ability to Obtain Public Trust". We'll make a short p.
Now "What You Will Do" section:
Our professionals help our clients to identify, evaluate, and solve some of their most complex challenges, assisting them in achieving their strategic goals and objectives to fulfill their mission. We help our clients transform their business processes, improve efficiency of operations, evaluate and improve internal controls, strengthen policies and controls, increase transparency and performance management, and comply with Federal laws and regulations. The nature of our projects can be fluid and requires self-motivated individuals that are willing to develop solutions on their own or in a team of highly skilled professionals. Project team members are provided the opportunity to interact with our clients’ senior management, as well as the opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of technical competency, business development, client service, leadership, project management, and people development.
That's the prose for About the role.
Now "Primary Support Areas" bullet list (though not using bullet symbols but sentences separated by periods). We need to convert to
- . The content:
Supporting annual internal control planning efforts to determine the scope of internal control assessment efforts and testing to be performed based on the risk profile of the organization and specific financial risks that have been identified through financial risk assessments and tracking.
Evaluating internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR) and internal controls over operations in line with OMB Circular A-123 for a range of financial and business process areas, to including performing end-to-end walkthroughs of business processes, documenting business processes and controls, testing the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls, and reporting on deficiencies.
Performing internal controls over operations and assessments of improper payments in support of the Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA).
Providing audit liaison support services to help facilitate a smooth financial statement audit process, including development and maintenance of digital tools that enable more efficient audit activities.
Providing a broad range of financial statement audit and audit risk management and remediation support that support the agency's goals to maintain a clean audit opinion and improve internal controls.
Then "Additional/Secondary Support Areas":
Providing financial risk management program support to include maintaining the agency's financial risk register (identifying, evaluating, and tracking financial risks and their mitigation strategies across the enterprise), completing annual fraud risk assessments, and preparation of the annual Statement of Assurance completed by the head of the agency.
Supporting the development and execution of risk mitigation plans, corrective action plans, and broader remediation strategies designed to address financial risks and internal control or audit deficiencies and strengthen financial processes.
Assessing the impact of new guidance on financial operations and supporting the implementation of new guidance when applicable.
Completing Entity Level Control (ELC) assessments and testing, including developing materials to perform the assessment, interviewing and surveying management and other client personnel, and compiling results to show data and assessment conclusions.
More broadly, this team member will be engaged in a diverse set of project-specific tasks covering a broad set of consulting capabilities, including:
Apply a variety of analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills and techniques
Documenting and evaluating business processes and making recommendations for process improvements
Producing a variety of communications from informal email interactions with clients to formal memos, issue papers, presentations, executive briefings, and others
Conducting research to investigate client problems and work collaboratively with your team to formulate and recommend solutions
Assist clients in analyzing projects and programs to identify risks and help develop, apply, and monitor mitigations
Support clients in collecting and analyzing data, producing models and visualizations, and draw conclusions from the data to improve decision-making
Analyze and help develop and/or improve policies and procedures for a variety of programs and operational needs
Then "In addition to client-facing responsibilities, this role will support important activities that contribute to the growth of our business, strengthen internal Guidehouse operations, and create a positive work environment for all Guidehouse employees. Some of these activities include but are not limited to:
Assisting in business development activities, such as identifying potential client needs and ways Guidehouse can assist, developing proposals and white papers, participating in client and internal account meetings, and more
Participating in Guidehouse’s programs for coaching and mentoring staff
Assisting in the development of learning and development materials, courses, and presentations to help Guidehouse employees expand and strengthen their skills
Support Guidehouse programs and initiatives for recruiting top talent to the company"
We can include these as part of Responsibilities as well.
Thus Responsibilities section will have a
overview maybe the first paragraph from "What You Will Do"? Actually we already used that for About the role. For Responsibilities we can start with a
summarizing that the role supports... but we can also just go straight to
- list of duties. However we need
- . Now Qualifications / What Would Be Nice To Have: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration Master’s degree in Accounting Certification(s) Preferred: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Governmental Financial Manager (CGFM) Knowledge of and experience with Federal financial management activities, including but not necessarily limited to: OMB Circular A-123 assessments for internal controls over financial reporting; Federal financial statement audits; financial risk management, financial policy, entity-level controls and/or management controls. Knowledge of and experience advising Federal clients on applications of OMB Circular A-123, Appendix A and C, the GAO Green Book, the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, Federal Financial Integrity Act of 1982 (FMFIA), and Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA). Federal accounting, including the United States Standard General Ledger (USSGL) and Treasury Financial Manual, and knowledge of Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA) Experience working in teams to produce high-impact work products, reports, and other deliverables in a fast-paced environment Possesses strong oral and written communication skills Heightened attention to detail, and the ability to create and edit technical and non-technical written work products and graphical presentations Ability to view problems from multiple angles and apply a variety of solutions to solving them Ability to participate in client-facing discussions and meetings Ability to synthesize information quickly and learn new skills Des
for prose; we can include a short prose sentence before the list. Now Requirements section: "What You Will Need". We'll extract: Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred. Bachelor’s degree FIVE (5) years of experience in financial management, accounting, internal controls, audit or another related financial field We can make each as
- . The content:
Supporting annual internal control planning efforts to determine the scope of internal control assessment efforts and testing to be performed based on the risk profile of the organization and specific financial risks that have been identified through financial risk assessments and tracking.
Evaluating internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR) and internal controls over operations in line with OMB Circular A-123 for a range of financial and business process areas, to including performing end-to-end walkthroughs of business processes, documenting business processes and controls, testing the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls, and reporting on deficiencies.
Performing internal controls over operations and assessments of improper payments in support of the Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA).
Providing audit liaison support services to help facilitate a smooth financial statement audit process, including development and maintenance of digital tools that enable more efficient audit activities.
Providing a broad range of financial statement audit and audit risk management and remediation support that support the agency's goals to maintain a clean audit opinion and improve internal controls.
Then "Additional/Secondary Support Areas":
Providing financial risk management program support to include maintaining the agency's financial risk register (identifying, evaluating, and tracking financial risks and their mitigation strategies across the enterprise), completing annual fraud risk assessments, and preparation of the annual Statement of Assurance completed by the head of the agency.
Supporting the development and execution of risk mitigation plans, corrective action plans, and broader remediation strategies designed to address financial risks and internal control or audit deficiencies and strengthen financial processes.
Assessing the impact of new guidance on financial operations and supporting the implementation of new guidance when applicable.
Completing Entity Level Control (ELC) assessments and testing, including developing materials to perform the assessment, interviewing and surveying management and other client personnel, and compiling results to show data and assessment conclusions.
More broadly, this team member will be engaged in a diverse set of project-specific tasks covering a broad set of consulting capabilities, including:
Apply a variety of analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills and techniques
Documenting and evaluating business processes and making recommendations for process improvements
Producing a variety of communications from informal email interactions with clients to formal memos, issue papers, presentations, executive briefings, and others
Conducting research to investigate client problems and work collaboratively with your team to formulate and recommend solutions
Assist clients in analyzing projects and programs to identify risks and help develop, apply, and monitor mitigations
Support clients in collecting and analyzing data, producing models and visualizations, and draw conclusions from the data to improve decision-making
Analyze and help develop and/or improve policies and procedures for a variety of programs and operational needs
Then "In addition to client-facing responsibilities, this role will support important activities that contribute to the growth of our business, strengthen internal Guidehouse operations, and create a positive work environment for all Guidehouse employees. Some of these activities include but are not limited to:
Assisting in business development activities, such as identifying potential client needs and ways Guidehouse can assist, developing proposals and white papers, participating in client and internal account meetings, and more
Participating in Guidehouse’s programs for coaching and mentoring staff
Assisting in the development of learning and development materials, courses, and presentations to help Guidehouse employees expand and strengthen their skills
Support Guidehouse programs and initiatives for recruiting top talent to the company"
We can include these as part of Responsibilities as well.
Thus Responsibilities section will have a