Audit Team Lead

Spatial Front, Inc; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Spatial Front, Inc. is seeking an Audit Team Lead to guide a multidisciplinary team in audit readiness, evidence collection, and control validation for a secure federal defense environment.

The role requires coordinating with government stakeholders and independent auditors to ensure complete, traceable documentation of payroll and personnel processes. You will manage audit findings, remediation workstreams, and deliverables while maintaining evidence quality and compliance with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in accounting, finance, information systems, or related field.
• Experience leading audit readiness, internal controls, and audit response in complex environments.
• Familiarity with DoD or federal audits and evidence-management practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise audit analysts responsible for audit readiness and evidence collection.
• Develop and manage integrated audit support plans, calendars, and tracker systems.
• Coordinate with government leaders, auditors, process owners, and technical teams to address requests.
• Oversee documentation of process narratives, risk matrices, and control descriptions.
• Ensure complete, accurate, and well-supported audit populations and evidence.

Skills

Audit leadership

Team supervision

Data validation

Audit readiness

Communication

DoD/federal audits

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Excel

Power BI

Azure DevOps

SharePoint

Job description

Description

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI) is seeking an Audit Team Lead to support our growing team. SFI was recently awarded the 2025 USA Today National Top Places to Work award and the 2025 Washington Post Top Workplaces. The ideal candidate will lead a team responsible for audit readiness, audit response, internal control validation, evidence management, and remediation support for a complex PeopleSoft HCM and personnel/pay platform in a secure federal defense environment. This role coordinates audit activities across government stakeholders, independent auditors, business process owners, and functional and technical teams to ensure that transactions, system controls, data, and supporting documentation are complete, accurate, traceable, and available for examination. The ideal candidate will combine strong team leadership with experience in federal audit support, internal controls, enterprise systems, and the disciplined management of audit requests, findings, and corrective actions.

Requirements

• Key Responsibilities:
• Lead and supervise audit analysts and supporting personnel responsible for audit readiness, evidence collection, control documentation, transaction support, data validation, and remediation activities across the enterprise personnel and pay environment.
• Develop and manage the integrated audit support plan, calendar, request tracker, milestones, assignments, and quality reviews; ensure timely and complete responses to auditor requests, walkthroughs, sample selections, inquiries, and follow-up actions.
• Coordinate with government audit leadership, independent auditors, oversight organizations, process owners, and technical teams to clarify requests, identify responsible parties, resolve evidence gaps, and communicate audit status, risks, and decisions.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of process narratives, control descriptions, risk and control matrices, flowcharts, standard operating procedures, interface documentation, data lineage, and other materials needed to demonstrate how personnel and pay transactions are initiated, approved, processed, recorded, and reported.
• Ensure the completeness and accuracy of audit populations, transaction samples, reconciliations, system-generated reports, interface results, and source-to-report traceability; validate that supporting evidence is reliable, appropriately approved, and retained in accordance with audit and records-management requirements.
• Lead evaluation and testing support for business-process, application, and information technology controls, including user and privileged access, periodic access reviews, segregation of duties, configuration and change management, batch and interface processing, audit logging, incident management, backup and recovery, and continuity procedures.
• Manage audit findings, notices of findings and recommendations, corrective action plans, and remediation workstreams by coordinating root-cause analysis, assigning owners, tracking milestones, validating remediation evidence, and preparing closure packages that demonstrate sustainable corrective action.
• Assess the audit and control impact of releases, configuration changes, interfaces, security updates, and operational process changes; maintain a controlled audit repository and provide dashboards, metrics, leadership briefings, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement recommendations.

Qualifications / Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 7+ years of experience in audit readiness, financial statement audit support, IT audit, internal controls, risk management, or enterprise system assurance, including 2+ years leading teams or major audit workstreams.
• Demonstrated experience supporting DoD or federal audits, including auditor coordination, provided-by-client request management, process walkthroughs, control testing, transaction sampling, evidence quality review, findings management, and corrective action tracking.
• Strong understanding of enterprise HCM, personnel, payroll, or ERP transaction processing and the controls needed to support complete and accurate data, reconciliations, interfaces, audit trails, approvals, access governance, and production operations; PeopleSoft experience is strongly preferred.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, leadership, and communication skills, with the ability to manage sensitive information, competing deadlines, and cross-functional stakeholders. Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one.

Desired Skills

• Working knowledge of federal internal control and information-system audit practices, including the GAO Green Book, FISCAM, financial improvement and audit remediation concepts, DoD financial management requirements, and related security and risk-management controls.
• Experience evaluating information technology general controls and application controls involving access management, segregation of duties, configuration management, change control, interfaces, batch processing, data integrity, and business continuity.
• Experience using SQL, Excel, Power BI, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, or similar tools to analyze audit populations, track requests and remediation, maintain evidence repositories, and produce audit-readiness dashboards and reports.
• CISA, CIA, CPA, CGFM, CRISC, PMP, or other relevant audit, risk, financial management, or project leadership certification.

Additional Information

• Clearance: Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain one.
• Work Environment: Onsite/Hybrid as required by the contract and program environment.
• This is a full-time, W2 position.
• No agencies, third parties, or Corp-to-Corp submissions.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer — all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status.
• SFI participates in E-Verify.