Director Audit Services

Overview

Duties Description The Director of Audit Services is a member of the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities' (OPWDD) Leadership Team and reports directly to the Commissioner. The incumbent provides executive management and oversight to the Office of Audit Services (OAS). OAS is comprised of the Bureau of Fiscal Audit, the Bureau of Internal Audit, Bureau of Internal Controls and the Bureau of Personal Allowance Audit.

OAS has staff assigned to regional offices throughout New York State, including Albany, Schenectady, Rochester, Syracuse and New York City.

The Director of Audit Services is a member of the OPWDD Leadership Team and reports directly to the Commissioner. The incumbent provides executive management and oversight to OAS. OAS has staff assigned to regional offices throughout New York State, including Albany, Schenectady, Rochester, Syracuse and New York City.

• Direct strategic planning for OAS activities, including development of annual audit plans, allocation of resources necessary to meet both planned activities and ad hoc requests for auditing services, and monitoring of corrective action plans.
• Managing and overseeing all activities of OAS staff and audits conducted on behalf of OAS by contracted auditing firms. This includes approval of audit protocols and programs, providing direction and guidance on audit priorities and technical issues, ensuring projects are completed within budgetary and time constraints, and the review and approval of draft and final reports.
• Providing technical and policy direction on critical projects involving complex fieldwork, fiscal mismanagement or governance concerns.
• Providing regular and ongoing communication with OPWDD management regarding OAS activities, significant findings, and corrective action plans.
• Coordinate efforts with other OPWDD divisions to monitor not-for-profit agencies with elevated risk ratings, questionable fiscal viability, or other governance concerns.
• Lead design, development, and implementation of new audit products as needed.
• Review agency programs, functions, and systems for adequacy and effectiveness.
• Ensuring all required internal control certifications are completed timely and properly supported.
• Coordinating activities for external audits, such as OSC audits of OPWDD, including assisting with requests for interviews or documentation, and taking the lead on preparing responses to any external audit findings and recommendations.
• Directing and overseeing the development of follow-up activities to determine whether audit recommendations have been implemented or appropriately addressed.
• Directing and overseeing the development and tracking of reporting metrics for executive management and CMS.
• Directing and overseeing the coordination of audit-related referrals to external oversight entities including the New York State Office of the Attorney General and OMIG.
• Ensuring ongoing communication, coordination and planning of OPWDD's audit activities with appropriate external entities, as well as OPWDD's Internal Control Officer and the Director of the Office of Investigations and Internal Affairs.
• Ensuring that OAS managers are familiar with and aware of legislative issues; new regulations, polices and emerging issues affecting the OPWDD service system; audit trends and changes to audit standards; and internal control guidelines.
• Overseeing OAS activities designed to attract, develop, and retain staff. This includes developing and fostering a plan to encourage professional development (i.e. professional certifications and annual continuing professional education hours).
• Providing support to the development of systems and procedures to ensure accountability for State assets and property including procedures, protocols, policies, and best practices regarding the issuance, receipt, return, inventorying, tracking, and usage monitoring of State assets and property.
• Overseeing the audit and review of internal control practices to ensure that employees, supervisors, and responsible program managers follow established protocols, procedures, policies, and best practices and to ensure that issues arising from the implementation and application of these requirements appropriately mitigate risks and may be reasonably and effectively implemented to protect State assets and property.

• Bachelor's degree and five years of experience conducting or managing audits, examinations, or program reviews, including three years at a managerial level.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Extensive knowledge of auditing standards and experience in their application.
• Extensive knowledge of accounting standards and experience in their application.
• Extensive knowledge of not-for-profit corporations and government operations.
• Extensive knowledge of OPWDD services.
• Experience with the Consolidated Fiscal Reporting System.
• Experience with Medicaid billings and the Medicaid Data…