Director- Audit Policy and Quality Assurance

Director
- Audit Policy And Quality Assurance

Your typical work assignments may include the following:

• Provides technical leadership and strategic direction for GAO's audit quality assurance and risk management programs, ensuring alignment with agency priorities and core values.
• Plans, directs, and oversees reviews of medium and high-risk GAO audit engagements and products to ensure compliance with GAGAS, GAO policies, and reporting standards.
• Serves as a senior expert official with responsibility for leading, managing, and developing a multidisciplinary staff of analysts, specialists, and managers.
• Provides authoritative advice and consultation to GAO teams and leadership on audit policy, quality assurance, internal controls, and risk management.
• Provides guidance to teams on the design and execution of audits and engagements to ensure appropriate application of GAGAS and GAO's Quality Assurance Framework.
• Identifies trends, systematic issues, and root causes affecting audit quality and organizational performance; recommends and implements corrective actions.
• Promotes innovation and continuous improvement in audit methodologies, quality assurance processes, and risk management practices.
• Leads or contributes substantially to key APQA responsibilities including:
  • the annual Performance and Accountability Report
  • organizational performance measurement system
  • Engagement Management Process
  • GAO Policy Manual and guidance tools (e.g., EAGLE, Words at Work, Visuals at Work)
  • records disclosure processes consistent with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
  • reporting on financial and nonfinancial benefits and recommendation follow-up.