Financial Compliance Monitor - Auditor V

Financial Compliance Monitor (Auditor V)

Agency Description : CSEC is a Texas state agency that is the state's authority on emergency communications. CSEC administers the state 9-1-1 service program and the statewide poison control program and is also administering a multi-year statewide federal grant program to transition Texas to providing Next Generation 9-1-1 Service.

Job Description : Reporting to the Executive Director, the Financial Compliance Monitor (Auditor V) performs highly advanced (senior-level) grant compliance and financial monitoring reviews of 9-1-1 and Poison Control grant recipients in accordance with State law, regulations, and policies to include Texas Grant Management Standards and Generally Accepted Auditing Standards and Principles. Work involves conducting, planning, scheduling, coordinating, and reviewing grant monitoring activities and reporting results; as well as providing guidance and technical assistance to grant recipients.

Essential Functions / Responsibilities :

• Performs compliance and financial monitoring activities that are highly complex in nature, including coordinating assignments and audit activities.
• Oversees and / or develops compliance and financial monitoring scopes, programs, objectives, procedures, and deliverables.
• Oversees and / or prepares compliance and financial monitoring reports, including the preparation of outlines, specification of internal reviews, preparation of draft reports, review of draft reports with grant recipients, preparation of the final reports incorporating grant recipients as appropriate, and submission of the final reports for review and approval.
• Conducts post-monitoring assessments.
• Conducts grant recipient interviews.
• Recommends and advises the senior management team regarding changes in grant administration processes, information systems, and accounting or management procedures.
• Develops and implements annual compliance and financial monitoring plans.
• Reviews compliance and financial monitoring activities for completeness, compliance with standards, uniformity in method, and adherence to statutes, departmental rulings, and legal decisions.
• Provides technical advice on the requirements, liabilities, and penalties of compliance and non-compliance.
• May testify before governmental bodies, juries, courts, or in administrative hearings.
• Performs related work as assigned.

Education : Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in accounting, business administration, finance, economics, or a related field is generally preferred.

Experience : Five (5) years of experience in auditing, accounting, compliance monitoring (financial), financial investigation, and / or grant management (financial). Note : Experience and education may be substituted for one another on a year-for-year basis.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Work Environment : This job operates in a professional office environment with the ability to work remotely on an ad hoc basis. Frequent use of a computer, phones, printers. Frequent work as a team member and in direct contact with others.