Accounting and Information Systems Auditor

Job Description

Job Description

A person in this role may live in Knox County and surrounding counties.

The Office of the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury is responsible for theaudit of state and local governmental entities and participates in the general financial and administrative management and oversight of state government. The Office is led by Comptroller Jason

E. Mumpower, a constitutional officer who iselected by the Tennessee General Assembly.

In the Comptroller’s Office, we strive to deliver on our mission to make government work better. We believe our success as an office depends on finding opportunities for employees to accomplish our office’s goals and answer challenges to make things better.

Wewant every member of our team to be excited to come to work every day and be challenged.

Through dedicated hard work and commitment, every Comptroller’s Office employee accepts personal responsibility to accomplish our mission and uphold it.

The Comptroller of the Treasury is recruiting to fill a position within our Division of Local Government Audit. This position willbe responsible for conducting audits in the counties surrounding Knox County in Tennessee. Legislative Auditors are responsible for external audit work in accordance with professional auditing standards. Responsibilities may include examining and reviewing records, reports, financial statements, information systems, and management practices forstate and local government entities and other organizations receiving public funds.

Legislative Auditors may assistin evaluating:

• The fairness of financial statement presentation,
• The adequacy of internal controls,
• Compliance with laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements, and/or
• The efficiency and effectiveness of an entity’soperations.

This position also performs other related duties as assigned.

Major responsibilities will include:

• Examining general and application-specific controls, including those related to security management, information systems logical and physical access, change management, segregation of duties, contingency planning, and business processes.
• Produce high quality work and take ownership of the various audit tasks or projects to which assigned. Work well individually and in a team environment.
• Produce neat, concise, logical, andwell-supported working papers that comply with auditing standards and best practices.
• Perform quality data analyses that accurately support the audit opinion and findings with proper perspective.
• Ensure that written and verbal communications are clear and easily understood by all stakeholders, such as the General Assembly, local governing bodies, elected officials, the media,citizens of the State of Tennessee, and the federal government.
• Seek opportunities for innovation and increased efficiency to improve and support the office’s mission to make government work better.
• Make effective use of the auditee’stime, professionally represent the Comptroller’s Office, and communicate clearly to the auditee, coworkers, members of the General Assembly, and other customers.

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in Accounting or Business Administration with a minimum of24 semester hours in accounting.
• Coursework in computer information systems, information security, computer science, and data analytics is a plus.
• Candidates should note that while a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license (requiring 30 semester hours in accounting) is not required for employment, the CPA license is strongly encouraged for further advancement as an auditor in our office.
• Other combinations of education and experience, if evaluated as equivalent, may qualify an applicant for consideration.

A successful employee in this role possesses the competencies to learn quickly, be open to change, pay attention to detail, ensure accuracy, think critically and problem solve, apply logic, and produce high-quality results. Auditors must be ableto exercise good judgment in evaluating situations and making decisions, and toexpress ideas clearly, concisely, and convincingly.

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