State Auditor IV

The Delaware State Auditor’s office works to ensure simplicity, accuracy, efficiency, and economy in the State of Delaware. The State Auditor serves Delawareans by providing independent objective oversight of the state government’s use of taxpayer dollars with the goal of deterring fraud, waste and abuse through unbiased assessments. Through the use of various audits, special reports, and investigations, the AOA ensures statutory compliance while enhancing governmental economy, efficiency, and effectiveness.

The AOA offers educational reimbursement, hybrid schedules, and other great incentives! To learn more visit https://auditor.delaware.gov/

The State Auditor IV combines advanced government auditing expertise with active, day-to-day leadership to manage and develop a high-performing audit team. Serving as a critical first-line manager, this position reports directly to the senior-level Administrative Auditor, helping to ensure public agencies run efficiently, comply with laws, and safeguard resources. You will oversee the daily activities of State Auditor I-III personnel, steering team workflows across diverse engagement types, including Performance Audits, Financial Statement Audits, Examinations, Agreed-Upon Procedures (AUPs), Inspections, Investigations, and Special Reports.

You will leverage a proven track record of supervising, managing, and mentoring professional staff to ensure team accountability, talent development, and high-quality outputs. Operational excellence is driven through your hands-on management of performance reviews, proactive coaching, and everyday administrative reviews and approvals. You will direct both in-house projects and external CPA engagements, utilizing specialized audit software such as CCH Pro System fx Engagement, Data Snipper, and ACL and the suite of Microsoft software products.

Acting as a critical gatekeeper for quality and compliance, you are responsible for ensuring strict compliance across your engagement portfolio by applying GAO Yellow Book standards, AICPA Attestation Standards, and CIGIE Quality Standards for Investigations (QSI), alongside ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners) principles. In doing so, you will enforce alignment with the Office's audit methodology and associated policies and procedures.

Ultimately, you will champion the fight against fraud, waste, and abuse by evaluating internal controls as part of internal engagements, monitoring CPA contractor execution of contract engagements, and delivering high-impact findings that optimize state government operations.

• Documents, tests, reviews and evaluates management controls and operating procedures.
• Identifies management control and operating procedure deficiencies and incidents of actual and suspected fraud, waste, and abuse/misuse.
• Reviews, analyzes, interprets, and reports upon management controls and operating procedures as a part of, (1) operational reviews and economy and efficiency audits in order to report on the effectiveness and efficiency of operations, (2) investigative and inspection examinations in order to report on deficiencies that can cause fraud and abuse; and (3) compliance audits to report on the adequacy of controls and/or ensure that legal and regulatory requirements are met.
• Researches applicable laws, rules, regulations and standards for engagements and special projects.
• Reviews, analyzes, evaluates, and reports upon operational and accounting controls in order to render an opinion on financial statements.
• Conducts entrance interviews to elicit data, information, records, and/or documentation to support engagement research, analysis, and reports.
• Conducts exit interviews to provide findings, recommendations and guidance/direction to organizations to resolve issues.
• Reviews and evaluates state agencies, departments, school districts, charter schools, local governments, and grant recipients’ policies and procedures for internal controls and compliance with applicable laws and standards.
• Reviews and analyzes records (financial, contractual) and documents the results in accordance with professional standards.
• Applies professional standards, methods and procedures to analyze and make recommendations concerning the accuracy of accounting systems and management controls and operating procedures.
• Prepares work papers, analysis summaries, findings/recommendations, correspondence, and engagement reports.
• Evaluates the overall accuracy and…