Auditor Financial Controls Federal Financials

Silver Spring Maryland

• Core Financial Management (including loans financial statements and interfaces)
• Acquisitions Management
• Property Management (personal real and fleet)
• Enterprise Data Warehouse and reporting (to include data from BAS Grants Travel and HR/Payroll)
• Data Archiving Solution
• All related administrative system interfaces

• Single Instance Single Configuration of Essential Mission Support Systems
• Enterprisewide standard data warehouse
• Modernized Financial Procurement and Asset Management Systems
• Modernized Data Platform.

• Apply the knowledge of the Federal Accounting Standards AdvisoryBoard (FASAB and Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGASstandards outcomes from recent self and program evaluations and Inflation ReductionAct (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) programs to conduct a risk analysis anddevelop a recommended fiveyear internal audit plan.
• Aligned with the approved audit plan and the established program evaluations the successful candidate shall perform evaluations of internal controls of financial budgetary andprogrammatic scope and support the annual management control review audit and A 123 audit elements.
• The results of evaluations are to be delivered through internal audits research andposition papers and process documentation.
• Act as liaison between auditors bureau leads and program personnel.
• Coordinate correspondence between external audit agencies as well as private sector auditing firms performing audits on behalf of DOC and NOAA line offices.
• External audits include those audits conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) as well as audits conducted by private sector auditing firms engaged by DOC to audit the Departments annual financial statements to satisfy the requirements of the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 to provide audited financial statements.
• In a typical year you willsupport the NOS Auditor in performing aminimum of one internal review and one program evaluation completing the annual A123 statement of assurance and serving in the liaison capacity for the A123 andexternal audit(s).
• Review all audit requests distribute requests to cognizant program office personnel and establish task timelines.
• Prepare and submit Correction Action Instruction packages in accordance with DOC and NOAA guidance as necessary to resolve discrepancies track the status of packages submitted to DOC and NOAA and review pertinent cost accounting and finance or other records to ensure that corrective actions taken arereflected in all financial and cost accumulation data systems.
• Update the audit plan on an annual basis.

• Indepth understanding and experience executing withinNOAAs Internal Control environment including NOAAspecific business processes andsystems for payments collections grants property and financial reporting. This includes experience identifying control weaknesses and gaps in NOAA business processes.
• Provides extensive experience executing the NOAA Management ControlReview process required by NOAA Finance every year.
• Provides an indepth understanding and experience performing NOAAfinancial statement audit tasks including Provided by Client (PBC) preparationtracking review and submittal to NOAA stakeholders; Presentation of NOAA business process walkthroughs directly to NOAA external auditors; preparation of whitepapers to respond to NOAA audit inquiries and observations; Development and ofcorrective action plans.
• Possesses extensive experience documenting NOAA processes andidentifying key internal controls for NOAAs external auditors to internally manage risk within NOAA.
• Must have experience evaluating internal controls of a large governmental organization with multiple program requirements and multiyear programfunding requirements.
• Must understand governmental accounting principles and concepts and application thereof as required by the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board(FASAB) and provide advisory services on accounting and auditing topics includingheritage assets and property management.
• Must have a thorough knowledge of standards applicable to financialstatement audits. The contractor shall thoroughly understand auditing concepts andthe current application thereof in accordance with the Generally Accepted GovernmentAuditing Standards (GAGAS).