Compliance review Specialist, Sr

Job Summary

Senior Compliance Review Specialist

Aptive is seeking a Senior Compliance Review Specialist to plan and conduct structured compliance reviews for a federal health program. The role will help validate that participating organizations, service providers, or program stakeholders continue to meet applicable requirements and maintain sufficient supporting records.

The Senior Compliance Review Specialist will develop risk-informed review procedures, coordinate information requests, assess evidence, document findings, and support corrective-action follow-up. This position requires sound professional judgment, independence, tactful stakeholder engagement, and strong command of compliance documentation.

The ideal candidate has experience conducting operational, programmatic, monitoring, or compliance reviews and can build an approach that is rigorous, consistent, and proportionate to program risk.

• Develop and maintain a risk-informed compliance review methodology, review plan, procedures, evidence standards, templates, and checklists aligned with government direction.
• Conduct reviews to validate program participation, services or activities performed, supporting documentation, operating practices, and continued compliance with applicable requirements.
• Prepare and manage information request logs, receipt confirmations, evidence inventories, and follow-up correspondence.
• Assess the sufficiency, reliability and consistency of submitted records and identify exceptions, control gaps and potential noncompliance.
• Conduct interviews or virtual walkthroughs, as authorized, to understand operating practices and validate documentary evidence.
• Document review scope, methodology, testing performed, findings, supporting evidence, and recommended follow-up actions.
• Classify findings by severity and risk and coordinate escalation of significant issues to the Project Manager.
• Maintain complete, organized and review-ready audit work papers with clear traceability between evidence, testing and conclusions.
• Monitor corrective actions and validate closure documentation when requested.
• Analyze cross-cutting audit trends and recommend program controls, applicant guidance, SOP updates or targeted technical assistance.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, auditing, business administration, public administration, compliance, healthcare administration or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of auditing, monitoring, internal control, investigative review, or regulatory compliance experience.
• Demonstrated experience planning audits, collecting evidence, performing testing and preparing clear findings and recommendations.
• Knowledge of audit principles, evidence sufficiency, sampling, workpaper documentation and corrective-action tracking.
• Ability to handle sensitive information, maintain objectivity and exercise professional skepticism without losing a service-oriented approach.
• Strong interviewing, analytical, writing and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams and SharePoint or comparable audit and document-management tools.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S.

• Professional certification such as Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Government Auditing Professional (CGAP), Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) or equivalent.
• Experience reviewing federal programs, healthcare programs, nonprofits, volunteer organizations, or community-service providers.
• Familiarity with Government Accountability Office auditing concepts, internal-control frameworks or federal grants and compliance monitoring.
• Experience developing risk-based audit plans and data-driven sampling approaches.
• Experience supporting VA or another federal health, benefits, or human-services program.

About Aptive

Aptive partners with federal agencies to achieve their missions through improved performance, streamlined operations and enhanced service delivery. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, we support more than a dozen agencies including Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Defense, Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation.

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