Auditor

This Auditor position is with Office of the Inspector General (Department of Agriculture) in Phoenix, AZ. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is an independent office within the Department of Agriculture whose mission is to ensure economy, efficiency, and integrity in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs and operations through the successful execution of audits, investigations, and reviews. Key duties: • Strategic Planning: Provides overall guidance and prioritization in engagement planning; creates, oversees, and reviews the development of base-content, risk assessments, planning ideas, engagement templates, and new products. • Written and Oral Communications: Prepares and delivers a wide variety of high-level briefings, reports, studies, memorandums, information papers, and other documents to high-level officials and staff members. • Technical Competence: Revises and establishes new policies and/or procedures to ensure engagements are conducted in accordance with prescribed professional audit and accounting standards. • Recommends changes in audit policies and/or procedures to improve oversight effectiveness and to address actions received during external quality assessment/peer reviews. • Audit Systems Analysis and Development: Develops creative solutions to controversial problems; studies and integrates findings of numerous audit efforts to define audit targets and develop audit criteria or new approaches for use by other auditors. • Customer Satisfaction and Liaising: Meets with key customers and coordinates with officials to assess customer satisfaction; explains organizational policy and procedures, resolves significant problems that arise. Qualifications: Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including time-in-grade restrictions, specialized experience and/or education, as defined below. Individual Occupational Requirement: Degree: auditing; or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, public administration or accounting. or Combination of education and experience: at least 4 years of experience in Performance/Financial Auditing, or an equivalent combination of performance/financial auditing experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional auditing knowledge. The applicant's background must also include one of the following: A certificate as a Certified Internal Auditor or a Certified Public Accountant, obtained through written examination; or Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in auditing or accounting, e.g., 15 semester hours. In Addition to the IOR above you must meet the Specialized Experience below for the respective grade: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-14: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower gradeGS-13. Specialized experience is described as mastery of a professional knowledge of the theory, concepts, principles, and practices of accounting and, as required, auditing, and financial management sufficient to conduct difficult assignments involving interfaces and inter-relationships between and among programs, systems, functions, policies, and various issues. FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS (GS-14): Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year at the GS-13 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-14 level. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks. NOTE: Applicants applying as VEOA candidates who are current GS civil service employees or are prior GS civil service employees within the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements. View the full announcement and apply on USAJOBS.gov.