AUDITOR 4 - 80966

State of Tennessee; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

The Tennessee Department of Human Services in Nashville seeks an Auditor 4 to supervise several audit teams within the Office of Inspector General – Internal Audit Division, overseeing financial, compliance, operational and program audits.

This senior role requires leading staff, reviewing audit work, and ensuring adherence to accounting principles while maintaining strong stakeholder communications and completing reports with accuracy.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in accounting or a Public Accountant in good standing and experience equivalent to substantial (five or more years of) full-time increasingly responsible professional auditing work.
• OR Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree including thirty-six quarter hours in accounting and experience equivalent to substantial (five or more years of) full-time increasingly responsible auditing work.
• OR A Certified Public Accountant with the State of Tennessee and experience equivalent to four years of full-time increasingly responsible auditing work.

Responsibilities

• Assigns, trains, supervises and evaluates several teams of subordinate professional auditors engaged in conducting financial, compliance, operational and/or program audits.
• Makes recommendations on staff employment, retention, promotion, dismissal and other human resources actions.
• Supervises the financial audit of State departments, agencies, institutions or schools or private agencies receiving governmental funding to verify the completeness and accuracy of financial documentation and ensure conformance with accepted accounting principles, practices, and compliance.
• Supervises the operational or program audit of state or private agencies to evaluate program efficiency and effectiveness.
• Supervises the examination of organizational structure, managerial policies and practices and record-keeping procedures.
• Supervises the preparation of audit narrative reports, work papers and other supporting financial documentation in order to identify legal, financial and/or administrative problems or discrepancies and recommend methods for improvement.
• Supervises and reviews audit reports submitted by subordinate auditors for completeness, mathematical accuracy, consistency and conformance to established audit procedures and practices.
• Establishes and maintains a variety of personal contacts with departmental officials, agency representatives, attorneys, accountants, associates and supervisory staff in resolving and correcting major problems uncovered in audits and explaining, interpreting and enforcing pertinent laws, regulations and procedures.
• Through subordinate supervisory personnel, provides technical assistance to auditors in conducting audits in accordance with accepted audit procedures and practices, correctly and consistently interpreting and applying pertinent laws and regulations and correctly preparing audit reports; advises staff on methods of handling complex or potentially controversial audits.
• May supervise special studies and investigations at the request of department heads.

Skills

Auditing

Leadership

Compliance

Financial Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting

CPA license

Job description

Executive Service

Closing Date: 09/28/2026

This is a hybrid position

Auditor 4

Department of Human Services

Director of Internal Audit

Nashville, TN

Annual Salary: $67,764.00 - $96,000.00

Closing Date: 09/28/2026

This is a hybrid position

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.

Who We Are And What We Do

DHS Mission: Strengthen Tennessee by Strengthening Tennesseans

DHS Vision: To revolutionize the customer experience by growing capacity to reduce dependency.

DHS Values

• High Performance
• Collaboration¿ Continuous Improvement
• A shared Vision
• Customer-Centered Solutions

Job Overview

This vacancy is within the Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS), Office of Inspector General -Internal Audit Division. The Auditor 4 is responsible for supervising several teams of professional and sub‑professional personnel in accomplishing financial, compliance, operational and/or program audits. This class differs from that of Auditor 3 in that an incumbent of the latter leads a small team of subordinate professional auditors. This class differs from that of Audit Director in that an incumbent of the latter has responsibility for directing the audit function for a department with many complex and diverse programs and a large fiscal operation and managing subordinate auditing staff.

Key Responsibilities

• Assigns, trains, supervises and evaluates several teams of subordinate professional auditors engaged in conducting financial, compliance, operational and/or program audits.
• Makes recommendations on staff employment, retention, promotion, dismissal and other human resources actions.
• Supervises the financial audit of State departments, agencies, institutions or schools or private agencies receiving governmental funding to verify the completeness and accuracy of financial documentation and ensure conformance with accepted accounting principles, practices, and compliance.
• Supervises the operational or program audit of state or private agencies to evaluate program efficiency and effectiveness.
• Supervises the examination of organizational structure, managerial policies and practices and record‑keeping procedures.
• Supervises the preparation of audit narrative reports, work papers and other supporting financial documentation in order to identify legal, financial and/or administrative problems or discrepancies and recommend methods for improvement.
• Supervises and reviews audit reports submitted by subordinate auditors for completeness, mathematical accuracy, consistency and conformance to established audit procedures and practices.
• Establishes and maintains a variety of personal contacts with departmental officials, agency representatives, attorneys, accountants, associates and supervisory staff in resolving and correcting major problems uncovered in audits and explaining, interpreting and enforcing pertinent laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Through subordinate supervisory personnel, provides technical assistance to auditors in conducting audits in accordance with accepted audit procedures and practices, correctly and consistently interpreting and applying pertinent laws and regulations and correctly preparing audit reports; advises staff on methods of handling complex or potentially controversial audits.
• May supervise special studies and investigations at the request of department heads.

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in accounting or a Public Accountant in good standing and experience equivalent to substantial (five or more years of) full‑time increasingly responsible professional auditing work.

OR

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree including thirty‑six quarter hours in accounting and experience equivalent to substantial (five or more years of) full‑time increasingly responsible auditing work.

OR

A Certified Public Accountant with the State of Tennessee and experience equivalent to four years of full‑time increasingly responsible auditing work.

Substitution Of Education For Experience

Additional graduate coursework in business administration with a major in accounting may be substituted for the required experience, on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of two years.

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.