Audit Supervisor

Job Description
*THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY BETWEEN $72,997 - $92,341.
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*THIS POSITION IS ONLY OPEN TO CANDIDATES WHO ARE PERMANENT (NOT PROVISIONAL) IN THE CIVIL SERVICE TITLE MANAGEMENT AUDITOR.
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The Administration for Childrens Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports.
ACS manages community-based supports and foster care services and provides subsidized childcare vouchers.
ACS child protection staff respond to allegations of child maltreatment.
In juvenile justice, ACS oversees detention, placement, and programs for youth in the community.

The ACS Division of Financial Services (DFS) is responsible for supporting, planning, implementing, and monitoring the fiscal functions of the agency in accordance with City, State and Federal guidelines.
The work of DFS includes managing the ACS budget; submission of monthly claims for revenue; processing of payments to provider agencies and vendors; monitoring the financial health of provider agencies through financial review and audits; maintenance of the ACS bank accounts; centralized oversight of ACS Child Welfare financial eligibility; and data maintenance for financial systems of record.

The responsibilities of the Financial Audit Department include overseeing and monitoring of the financial health of contracted provider agencies and monitoring and identifying areas of financial risk.
This includes preparing year-end reconciliations for each provider, reviewing annual provider financial audits, and monitoring provider agency corrective action plans, annual closeout reconciliations/appeals and oversight of the DOE audit of CCBG funded Early Learn contractors, Social Security Benefits Unit (SSBU) Banking, Fiscal Field Review (FFR)/Risk Management units, Child Welfare Contract Audits (CWCA), managing Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Retirement, Survivors and Disabilities Insurance (RSDI) payments on behalf of children in foster care, all ACS Banking and cash transactions.

The candidate will report to the Director of Monitoring which oversees the monitoring of ACS contract providers risk, payment, and receipt of funds due to or from contract providers, appeals from providers regarding reconciliation calculations.
Childcare Development Block Grant funds which cover the cost of Early Learn contract services at the NYCPS and payments made via the PON1
Typical duties include, but are not limited to:
- Develop and maintain data set from audit review information to support contract closeout and expense reconciliation.

- Monitoring the completion, billing, and collection of audit closeouts for approximately 80 providers and about 300 contracts encompassing various programs for which Financial Services does closeouts.

- Supervise the completion and quality control of the monthly audit metrics report dashboard on closeout status, foster care rate reconciliation, and banking information.

- Organize and prepare audit review data sets from the audited financial statements of about 80 providers for analysis and production of the providers fiscal health profiles which are critical for monitoring provider agency performance.

- Monitoring, tracking and quality control of information compiled from the annual audited financial statements submitted by ACS contracted services providers.

- Maintain data from audited financial statements in an easily accessible data base format.

- Assists in reviewing Early Learn Providers audit through Department of Education.

- Provide data analysis and reports concerning the review of vendor closeout Appeals.

- Perform technical analysis to assist audit unit using the reports from different systems (Passport, FMS, SSPS, PMRS).

- Supervise the Special Payments (PON1) audit and provide a yearly PON1 training on the funding usages as per NY Comptrollers guidelines.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Section 424-A of the New York Social Services Law requires an authorized agency to inquire whether a candidate for employment with child-caring responsibilities has been the subject of a child abuse and maltreatment report.

TO APPLY
Please go to www.cityjobs.nyc.gov or www.nyc.gov/ess for current NYC employees and search for Job ID # 657255.

No phone calls, faxes or personal inquiries permitted.

Note: Only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

Qualifications
1.
A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, accredited by regional, national, professional or specialized agencies recognized as accrediting bodies by the U.S. Secretary of Education and by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) including or supplemented by 24 semester credits in accounting, including one course each in: advanced accounting, auditing, and cost accounting; and one of the following:
(A) one year of full-time satisfactory experience in management auditing, financial auditing, and/or information technology (IT) auditing; or
(B) a valid Certified Public Accountant license issued by the New York State Education Department; or
(C) a valid Certified Internal Auditor certificate issued by the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA); or
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A satisfactory combination of education and/or experience equivalent to "1" above.
Education and/or experience may be substituted as follows:
(A) two years of full-time satisfactory experience in financial or managerial accounting may be substituted for the one year of experience described in "1(A)" above;
(B) undergraduate or graduate credits from an accredited college or university, accredited by regional, national, professional or specialized agencies recognized as accrediting bodies by the U.S. Secretary of Education and by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in management, computer science, public administration, and/or business administration may be substituted for up to 9 semester credits in accounting, on a credit for credit basis.

However, all candidates must have a baccalaureate degree including or supplemented by 15 semester credits in accounting, including one course each in advanced accounting, auditing, and cost accounting, and one of the following: at least one year of the experience described in "1(A)" above or its equivalent; or a Certified Public Accountant license; or a Certified Internal Auditor certificate, as described in "1(B)" or "1(C)" above.

To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II individuals must have, in addition to meeting the minimum requirements, at least one year of experience as a Management Auditor - Assignment I or at least two years of experience in management auditing, financial auditing, and/or information technology (IT) auditing.

Additional Information
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.