Internal Auditor III - Austin Financial Services

About This Position

Our department provides a variety of financial services and programs. Austin Financial Services (AFS) serves residents, vendors, and City departments. Our mission is to serve as a trusted steward of public resources with integrity and accountability to ensure a fiscally sound city. Our staff supports a wide variety of financial processes, including preparing the annual budget and annual fiscal report, procurement processes, franchise agreements, real estate transactions, and overseeing the City’s investment portfolio and debt management.

As an internal support function within the larger City organization, AFS is proud to serve and act as a leader in financial management to its partner departments.

Under general direction, this position performs auditing work which includes investigating, reviewing, and analyzing financial information, internal controls, operational performance, and management practices to ensure compliance with internal policies and procedures and Local, State, and Federal laws, statutes, and guidelines.

• Manages complex audits, large projects, or fraud investigations.
• Prepares risk assessments of the department or specific processes to be audited.
• Plans audits, including objectives, scope, methodologies, and audits program.
• Collects, reviews, and analyzes various types of information and data that are significant to the project.
• Performs interviews of personnel in the course of performing projects.
• Performs tests of internal controls to ensure safeguarding of assets, compliance with laws and policies, accomplishment of objectives, reliability of information, and efficiency of operations.
• Prepares and reviews work papers and draft audit reports.
• Develops conclusions, recommends improvements, and communicates audit results to auditees.
• Present audit results to audit committee and/or executive management.
• Develops audit policies, procedures, and templates.
• Coordinates with other agencies and auditors.
• Coaches others on audit skills.

This position is not responsible for supervising, but may lead multiple projects, assign project tasks to others, review tasks performed by others, and coach others.

• Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
• Knowledge of the concepts for review and evaluation of internal control systems and auditing procedures.
• Knowledge of enterprise risk management methodologies.
• Knowledge of and ability to adhere to appropriate professional standards, including the Yellow Book and Red Book.
• Knowledge of statistical analysis and principles.
• Knowledge of theories, principles, and practices of investigation as well as the ability to apply such knowledge to fraud investigations involving government activities and resources.
• Knowledge of performance measurement principles.
• Knowledge of audit project management.
• Knowledge of City of Austin and departmental auditing policies and procedures (preferred qualification).
• Knowledge of departmental business operations with regards to management practices, internal controls (preferred qualification).
• Knowledge of governmental and/or utility accounting principles (preferred qualification).
• Skilled in effective oral and/or written communication.
• Skilled in completing assigned duties and functions in a timely and effective manner.
• Skilled in resolving problems or situations requiring the exercise of good judgment.
• Skilled in examining financial and operational information systems.
• Skilled in identifying, obtaining, and analyzing…