Financial Auditor

Auditor Position

Keystone Advisors is an independent Certified Public Accounting firm licensed in the State of Illinois. Keystone provides Audit, Accounting, and Advisory Services in the areas of financial and administrative management, organizational and business improvement, program management support, budget support, financial analytical services and reconciliation, technology management and staff augmentation in Chicago, Washington, DC, Alexandria, VA, and other metropolitan areas.

Keystone is looking for an Auditor to join our team in the Washington, DC metro area to support the Federal Bureau of Investigations Audit Liaison Office (AOL).

The ALO team provides a full range of business process and information systems audit liaison support services required for the FBI's Business Process (BP) and Information Systems (IS) financial statements audit. These services encompass quality reviews of audit requests and submissions, scheduling and facilitating audit status meetings, and communicating with FBI stakeholders and external auditors.

The Auditor Must have a Top-Secret Security Clearance.

Job Duties:

• Participate in quality reviews of audit samples for completeness and accuracy.
• Create checklists to perform quality review of audit samples.
• Conduct cursory reviews, identify improvements, and provide recommendations to the Audit team lead and FFD management.
• Provide monitoring and reviewing of audit logs, vulnerability and compliance scans, and access control processes for the IS audit.
• Follow-up and provide recommendations to stakeholders if samples or other responses are incomplete, ambiguous, or incorrect.
• Participate in the planning and developing the Audit Readiness Assessment for the upcoming audit cycle.
• Complete an annual Separation of Duties (SOD) analysis on various ATS systems.
• Collaborate with the IS Liaison on the review business processes for FBI and DOJ compliance.
• Perform expert risk assessments for the BP and IS audits.
• Research audit risk areas to report to FFD management and identify recommendations for remediation and improvement.
• Create Audit Readiness packages for BP and IS stakeholders to assist with prompt and accurate responses to auditor "Provide By Client" (PBC) data and information requests.
• Review auditor-identified "exceptions" and Notices of Findings and Recommendations (NFRs) to assist stakeholders with remediating findings and improving process areas.
• Review Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) and assist stakeholders with remediating audit findings and making recommendations for improvement.
• Perform coordination, review, processing, and writing recommendations for PBCs, NFRs, and CAPs.
• Conduct expert-level audit analyses and create professional written documents and presentations using MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Word, etc., for FBI management, the DOJ's Quality Control and Compliance Financial Management Division, and the DOJ Office.
• Conduct research within the FBI internal finance and facilities systems (UFMS, AMS, F.I.T), external feeder systems, and Other Government Agencies (OGAs) to obtain information on auditing standards and FBI and DOJ policies. Identify audit trends and perform high-medium-low analyses of audit process areas.
• Perform additional related task as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college with five (5) year or more recent accounting-related work experience in Government accounting, financial management and auditing including annual federal agency financial statement audits as well as performing State or Local government or commercial entity financial statement audits or Federal financial related performance audit. Eight (8) or more years of experience may be substituted for education.
• Five (5) or more years of working experience in complex auditing projects.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience and knowledge of interpreting and applying legal and administrative codes to audit matters.
• Five (5) or more years of specialized experience in both leading and providing technical direction to complex auditing challenges and providing recommendations and solutions that are legal and auditable.
• Five (5) or more years of working knowledge of Government auditing standards; generally auditing accounting and auditing principles, techniques, methodology, procedures, and analysis; and research and investigation.
• Possess a current financial certification such as the CMA, CPA, CIA, CGFM, CISA, and other related certifications.
• Must have a Top-Secret Security Clearance.
• Proficient in MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Word
• Experience with Unified Financial Management Systems (UFMS) and Acquisition Management System (AMS) is a plus.

Compensation Package:

• Competitive Salary
• Paid Time Off
• Health, Vision & Dental Insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Short & Long Term Disability
• 401(K)
• Life Insurance