Senior Financial Audit Consultant
| Company | Guidehouse |
|---|---|
| Location | McLean, VA, USA, Fairview Heights, IL, USA, Huntsville, AL, USA |
| Salary | $89000 – $148000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Ability to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a SECRET Federal or DoD security clearance
- Bachelor’s Degree
- THREE (3) years’ experience in accounting, auditing, audit remediation, finance, internal controls or other Federal Financial Management and Reporting disciplines.
Responsibilities
- Supporting the response to external financial statement audit requests and inquiries to include end-to-end walkthroughs of business processes, ad hoc meetings, and assisting with coordinating and preparing requested supporting documentation.
- Supporting the development and execution of corrective action plans and broader remediation strategies designed to address internal control and audit deficiencies and strengthen financial processes.
- Assessing the impact of new guidance on financial operations and supporting the implementation of new guidance when applicable.
- Providing audit readiness support services to help facilitate a smooth financial statement audit process, including development and maintenance of digital tools that enable more efficient business processes.
- Apply a variety of analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills and techniques
- Documenting and evaluating business processes and making recommendations for process improvements
- Producing a variety of communications from informal email interactions with clients to formal memos, issue papers, presentations, executive briefings, and others
- Conducting research to investigate client problems and work collaboratively with your team to formulate and recommend solutions
- Assist clients in analyzing projects and programs to identify risks and help develop, apply, and monitor mitigations
- Support clients in collecting and analyzing data, producing models and visualizations, and draw conclusions from the data to improve decision-making
- Analyze and help develop and/or improve policies and procedures for a variety of programs and operational needs
- Assisting in business development activities, such as identifying potential client needs and ways Guidehouse can assist, developing proposals and white papers, participating in client and internal account meetings, etc
- Participating in Guidehouse’s programs for coaching and mentoring staff
- Assisting in the development of learning and development materials, courses, and presentations to help Guidehouse employees expand and strengthen their skills
- Support Guidehouse programs and initiatives for recruiting top talent to the company.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with data analytics, analysis and reporting.
- Experience supporting teams in the execution of assigned workload.
- Experience interacting with senior officials.
- Experience working as an Accountant, Auditor or DOD Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation (FIAR) Specialist performing the following: DoD accounting, Assessments of DOD processes or internal controls, DOD financial reporting, Applying the concepts used in financial reporting as promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB), Performing financial statement audits, audit readiness services or audit remediation and sustainment services within DoD or another Federal Government agency or department.