Auditor - Internal Audit

Executive Service Background Check

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

The Tennessee Department of Correction operates and oversees 14 adult prisons across the state, housing some 21,000 offenders. In the community, TDOC supervises 79,000 offenders on probation, parole, or community corrections. The department operates 44 probation/parole offices in 13 districts across the state.

The Auditor 4 position is responsible for analyzing and updating audit work programs, reviewing policies, performing audits of all facilities, TDOC Central Office, and Tennessee Correctional Academy. Additionally, the Auditor 4 completes audits of regional evidence storage areas in the three (3) major regions of the state. This position reports directly to the Auditor Director 1
- Internal Audit and Risk Mitigation.

• Assigns, trains, supervises and evaluates several teams of subordinate professional auditors engaged in conducting financial, compliance, operational and/or program audits. Makes recommendations on staff employment, retention, promotion, dismissal and other human resources actions.
• Supervises the financial audit of State departments, agencies, institutions or schools or private agencies receiving governmental funding to verify the completeness and accuracy of financial documentation and ensure conformance with accepted accounting principles, practices, and compliance.
• Supervises the operational or program audit of state or private agencies to evaluate program efficiency and effectiveness. Supervises the examination of organizational structure, managerial policies and practices and record-keeping procedures.
• Supervises the preparation of audit narrative reports, work papers and other supporting financial documentation in order to identify legal, financial and/or administrative problems or discrepancies and recommend methods for improvement. Supervises and reviews audit reports submitted by subordinate auditors for completeness, mathematical accuracy, consistency and conformance to established audit procedures and practices.
• Establishes and maintains a variety of personal contacts with departmental officials, agency representatives, attorneys, accountants, associates and supervisory staff in resolving and correcting major problems uncovered in audits and explaining, interpreting and enforcing pertinent laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Through subordinate supervisory personnel, provides technical assistance to auditors in conducting audits in accordance with accepted audit procedures and practices, correctly and consistently interpreting and applying pertinent laws and regulations and correctly preparing audit reports; advises staff on methods of handling complex or potentially controversial audits.
• May supervise special studies and investigations at the request of department heads.

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in accounting or a Public Accountant in good standing and experience equivalent to substantial (five or more years of) full-time increasingly responsible professional auditing work.
OR
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree including thirty-six quarter hours in accounting and experience equivalent to substantial (five or more years of) full-time increasingly responsible auditing work.
OR
A Certified Public Accountant with the State of Tennessee and experience equivalent to four years of full-time increasingly responsible auditing work.
Substitution of Education for

Experience:

Additional graduate coursework in business administration with a major in accounting may be substituted for the required experience, on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of two years

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