Director, Office of Contract Agency Audits
City of New York
Job Description
The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of community-based organizations and programs to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish.
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DYCD’s Office of Contract Agency Audits’ (OCA) mission is to perform fiscal monitoring of DYCD's
contracted Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to ensure they comply with DYCD's contract, the
City of New York Health and Human Services Cost Policies and Procedures Manual, DYCD’s Fiscal
Manual, and other applicable City, State, and Federal laws.
The OCA Director will report to the OCA Senior Director and will directly oversee one to two Deputy
Directors.
Deputy Directors oversee OCA’s staff auditors. The Director will be required to work
independently to supervise the day-to-day tasks of the Deputy Directors and staff auditors.
In coordination with the Senior Director, the Director will be responsible for:
- Creating and maintaining OCA protocols and standard operating procedures.
- Developing annual training and professional development plans for Deputy Directors and staff
auditors.
- Training Deputy Directors and staff auditors on OCA protocols and standard operating procedures.
- Training CBOs on contract provisions, fiscal manual requirements, and the general process of
DYCD’s audits.
- Selecting the CBOs for DYCD’s contracted CPA Firms to audit on an annual basis.
- Reviewing monthly status reports from DYCD’s contracted CPA firms and following up to resolve
bottlenecks.
- Directly communicating with CBOs regarding: CBO compliance with CPA Firm audit requests and
DYCD’s acceptance or rejection of CBO responses to draft audit findings and corrective action plans.
- Processing, tracking, and reporting to DYCD Senior Management on CBO recoupments stemming
from audits with disallowed costs.
- Responding to CBO questions regarding allowable costs, appropriate cost allocation methodologies
and calculations, and general document retention requirements.
- Overseeing DYCD’s Certificate of Compliance process, which documents all CBOs that are required to submit Federal Uniform Guidance Reports, as well as collecting and reviewing CBO’s
Uniform Guidance Reports and following up with CBOs on any findings.
- Collecting, reviewing, and explaining documentation required to meet DYCD’s oversight entities'
requirements.
- Overseeing special project audits performed by CPA Firms to address various referrals to the OCA
regarding potential fraud, waste, and abuse of City funds at CBOs.
- Overseeing the CPA Firm audit of DYCD’s contracted Fiscal Agent.
- Making final decisions on whether questioned costs resulting from CPA firm audits should be
disallowed and recouped from CBOs by DYCD.
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT AUDI - 1001C
Qualifications
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by 24 credits in accounting, including one course each in advanced accounting, auditing and cost accounting and five years of full-time experience in management auditing, EDP auditing, financial accounting and/or financial auditing, at least 18 months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity or in the supervision of several teams of auditors; or
2. A valid Certified Public Accountant License or a certificate as a Certified Internal Auditor and four years of full-time experience as indicated in "1" above, at least 18 months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity or in the supervision of several teams of auditors.
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.
Salary Min: $ 66,067.00
Salary Max: $195,261.00
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