Senior Auditor TS​/SCI Poly

Job order - J – Permanent Full Time

Title: Senior Contract Auditor TS/SCI with Poly REQUIRED

Category: Business Analysis (functional and technical)

Location: Chantilly, Virginia, United States

Position

Description:

CGI Federal is seeking candidates for the position of Contract Auditor to work in support of a USG agency in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Successful candidates will work on the agency’s Financial Audit Services team, providing both pre‑award and post‑award financial audit services to the USG agency and other elements of the Intelligence Community. Candidates must be capable of handling a full range of complex to highly complex audits in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS).

Work will involve gathering and analyzing cost data, preparing audit documentation and reports, and providing technical guidance and audit recommendations to the government audit manager on allowable costs, reasonableness of costs, and cost allocation incurred on government contracts.

• Conduct a full range of routine to highly complex audits in accordance with GAGAS.
• Prepare risk assessment and transaction testing plan drafts for government audit manager approval; gather and analyze accounting records and supporting documents necessary to perform transaction testing on post‑award audits; perform the full range of post‑award audits.
• Prepare exhibits and schedules for post‑award audits.
• Review permanent files and prior reviews to obtain background information and update contractor information.
• Create the audit folder, brief the contracts and document all government audit manager guidance, conversations, and meetings with requestor, program office and contractor personnel.
• Summarize audit results ensuring all work papers have a purpose, scope, conclusion and source indexing and cross‑referencing.
• Draft comprehensive audit reports for government audit manager approval, attaching exhibits and schedules as necessary, which may require minimal government audit manager edits.
• Prepare final audits for government audit manager approval to expedite contract settlement (some audits require audit judgment to advise on closure by means other than GAGAS based audits).
• Employ auditing techniques to include statistical sampling, regression analysis and review of historical cost to formulate recommendations on allowability, allocability, and reasonableness per the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), the Cost Accounting Standards, and the Contract Terms.
• Review and analyze contractor disclosure statements, post‑award audits, termination audits, and other historical cost type audits.

• Considerable knowledge and understanding of GAGAS, GAAP, FAR, Cost Accounting Standards, Federal Tax Regulations, the USG agency’s regulations, Defense Contract Audit Manual, the USG agency’s contracting manual, Financial Accounting Standards Board Statements and Promulgations.
• Proficiency with computer applications and specialized databases.
• Strong organizational skills to plan each phase of the audits and meet deadlines.
• Advanced problem‑solving skills to resolve discrepancies in the application of costs with contractors.
• Strong analytical and research skills to evaluate multiple pieces of complex data to form conclusions and recommendations.
• Strong oral communication skills to facilitate discussion of audit issues with contracting officers, face‑to‑face entrance/exit conferences with contractors, and various presentations.
• Strong writing skills to prepare audit reports, brief management and request additional information from contractors.
• Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrated by developing relationships and networks within the assigned work area and using them when soliciting information from and imparting information to contracting officers.
• Ability to work effectively as a team member, understanding the differences in roles and the dynamics of reaching consensus in achieving goals.

• Clearance: A Top Secret clearance with polygraph.
• Experience:
  
  Minimum four (4) years of professional contract auditing experience planning and completing a full range of contract…