Principal Auditor/Analyst
Position Summary: Under the direction of the Executive Deputy Inspector General for Audit (EDIG/Audit), the Principal Auditor/Analyst is responsible, within the mandate of the MTA Inspector General, for serving as a team leader on audits, responsible for planning, conducting, and reporting on concerns or improvement opportunities regarding MTA operations and policy.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Leads moderately sized audits with minimal supervision.
- Works as a team member on more complex audits.
- Evaluates agency or program performance using qualitative and quantitative methods to determine expectations/standards, problems, causal factors, and options to correct.
- Reviews agency processes, procedures, and controls designed to manage and mitigate risk, fraud, waste, and abuse of agency resources.
- Identifies issues and develops a plan to assess their significance.
- Conducts interviews of agency and other personnel and prepares clear and concise interview memoranda.
- Develops appropriate recommendations to improve agency operations, cost-efficiency, and safety.
- Prepares professionally written reports on areas evaluated.
- Provides leadership, direction, and feedback to junior staff on the team.
- Responsible for meeting project milestones.
- Develops and maintains professional working relationships and continually gains knowledge of evolving MTA and agency operations.
- Works in a team environment to identify issues and develop methodology to assess their significance.
- Analyzes data using a variety of software to identify risks.
- Supports investigative cases with analysis or participates as part of the investigative team, as assigned.
- Other duties as assigned by the EDIG/Audit or designee.
Minimum Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution in fields such as public administration, mathematics, data science, economics, accounting, the social sciences or other related business or operational field. Master's degree is a plus.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in the fields of performance auditing, evaluation, oversight, or a project management-focused field. Applicant's work experience sufficiency is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
- Knowledge of acceptable audit industry standards, processes, and procedures.
- Demonstrated analytical skills, critical thinking skills, impartial judgment, and research aptitude.
- Excellent oral skills for interviewing, experience a plus.
- Excellent writing skills for documenting interviews, summarizing evaluation findings, and drafting reports.
- Ability to gather and interpret high volumes of complex data. Excellent working knowledge of computer applications relevant to auditing, including Microsoft Office. Advanced Excel is a plus.
- Ability to handle multiple projects while maintaining careful attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to interact effectively with department and agency staff and senior management.
- Travel within the MTA geographic jurisdiction will be required.
- Working outside of regular business hours may be required.
- Pursuant to the approval by the EDIG/Audit, this position is eligible for hybrid teleworking.
How to Apply:
- Please submit a resume and cover letter to: ...@MTAIG.ORG
- Reference the Job Title for which you are applying for in your email subject line.
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