AUDIT MANAGER - 81685

State of Tennessee; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

State of Tennessee's Department of Finance and Administration, Internal Audit, Nashville, TN, seeks an Audit Manager to oversee a small audit team and deliver financial, compliance, and operational audits.

Requires a four-year accounting degree and five+ years auditing; CIA or CPA preferred; salary range $85,000–$105,000 annually; hybrid work arrangement; closing date 10/19/2026.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in accounting and five or more years of increasingly responsible professional auditing experience.
• Certifications: CIA or CPA certification (CISA would also be very helpful but is not required).

Responsibilities

• Provides day-to-day leadership for a small audit team by assigning work, coordinating schedules, setting priorities, monitoring progress, and communicating workload or resource concerns to the Audit Director.
• Supervises, mentors, trains, and evaluates assigned professional audit staff; provides feedback and coaching; and makes recommendations regarding hiring, retention, promotion, performance management, and other personnel actions.
• Plans and manages financial, compliance, operational, information technology, and program audits of Finance and Administration. Establishes objectives, scope, procedures, timelines, and resource needs based on risk and management priorities.
• Leads or oversees audit engagements to assess the reliability and completeness of financial and operational information, compliance with laws, regulations, policies, grant requirements, and contracts, and the effectiveness and efficiency of programs, processes, and internal controls.
• Reviews risk assessments, audit programs, workpapers, sampling approaches, evidence, findings, recommendations, and draft reports for quality, accuracy, clarity, consistency, and compliance with applicable audit standards and established procedures.
• Provides technical guidance to auditors on audit methodology, evidence evaluation, documentation, data analysis, internal controls, and the interpretation and application of pertinent laws, regulations, policies, and professional standards.

Skills

Quality Control Analysis

Systems Analysis

Judgment and Decision Making

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting

Job description

Executive Service

Closing Date: 10/19/2026

This position is designated as Hybrid

Background Check

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

AUDIT MANAGER

Department of Finance and Administration

Internal Audit

Nashville, TN

Annual Salary: $85,000.00 - $105,000.00

Job Overview

Under general supervision, employees in this class manage and perform financial, compliance, operational, and program audits and provide day-to-day leadership for the audit team. Employees coordinate the audit function's work, assign and review engagements, develop staff, communicate with management and auditee representatives, and help ensure audits are completed in accordance with applicable professional standards, laws, regulations, policies, and procedures. This class differs from Auditor 3 in that an incumbent of the latter serves as a senior experienced auditor versus managing the audit team. This class differs from Audit Director in that an incumbent of the latter has overall responsibility for directing the audit function for a department with many complex and diverse programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides day-to-day leadership for a small audit team by assigning work, coordinating schedules, setting priorities, monitoring progress, and communicating workload or resource concerns to the Audit Director.
• Supervises, mentors, trains, and evaluates assigned professional audit staff; provides feedback and coaching; and makes recommendations regarding hiring, retention, promotion, performance management, and other personnel actions, as appropriate.
• Plans and manages financial, compliance, operational, information technology, and program audits of Finance and Administration. Establishes objectives, scope, procedures, timelines, and resource needs based on risk and management priorities.
• Leads or oversees audit engagements to assess the reliability and completeness of financial and operational information, compliance with laws, regulations, policies, grant requirements, and contracts, and the effectiveness and efficiency of programs, processes, and internal controls.
• Reviews risk assessments, audit programs, workpapers, sampling approaches, evidence, findings, recommendations, and draft reports for quality, accuracy, clarity, consistency, and compliance with applicable audit standards and established procedures.
• Provides technical guidance to auditors on audit methodology, evidence evaluation, documentation, data analysis, internal controls, and the interpretation and application of pertinent laws, regulations, policies, and professional standards.
• Coordinates communication with departmental officials, agency representatives, attorneys, accountants, information technology personnel, and other stakeholders to obtain information, resolve issues, discuss findings, and support timely corrective action.
• Prepares, reviews, and presents audit reports, status updates, and other communications to the Audit Director and management.
• Explains significant issues, recommendations, and potential risks in a clear and constructive manner.
• Maintains the audit plan and engagement status information; monitors deliverables and follow-up activities; identifies delays or emerging issues; and promptly communicates matters that may affect audit scope, timing, quality, or independence.
• May lead special reviews, investigations, consulting engagements, risk assessments, or other assignments at the request of the Audit Director or department management.

Competencies

Communicates Effectively; Instills Trust; Manages Conflict; Decision Quality; Plans and Aligns.

Knowledge

Accounting; Customer Service; Administration and Management; Personnel and Human Resources.

Skills

Quality Control Analysis; Systems Analysis; Judgment and Decision Making; Monitoring.

Abilities

Written Comprehension; Deductive Reasoning; Speech Clarity; Speech Recognition.

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in accounting and five or more years of increasingly responsible professional auditing experience.

Certifications: this position requires a CIA or CPA certification (a CISA would also be very helpful but is not required).

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.