AUDITOR 4 - INTERNAL AUDIT - 81177

State of Tennessee; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 68,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

The State of Tennessee is seeking an Auditor 4 in Nashville to lead internal audits across facilities, TDOC Central Office, and regional sites. You will develop and update audit programs, review policies, and ensure audits meet regulatory standards.

You will supervise teams, prepare narratives and reports, and communicate findings to senior leadership. A strong background in accounting, auditing, and supervisory roles is required, with a thorough understanding of state regulations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or CPA with five or more years of professional auditing experience.
• Alternative: degree with 36 credit hours in accounting plus five years of auditing experience.
• CPA with Tennessee license and four+ years of auditing experience.

Responsibilities

• Assigns, trains, and supervises audit teams for financial, compliance, and operational audits.
• Supervises financial audits of state departments and agencies for accuracy and compliance.
• Oversees operational/program audits to evaluate efficiency and effectiveness.
• Prepares audit narratives, work papers, and supporting documentation; ensures accuracy and compliance.
• Maintains contacts with officials to resolve audit findings and explain regulations.
• Provides technical guidance to auditors on audit procedures and regulations interpretation.
• May supervise special studies or investigations at department heads’ request.

Skills

Auditing

Supervisory experience

Policy analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Job description

Executive Service

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.

Executive Service

AUDITOR 4 - INTERNAL AUDIT

Department of Correction

Office of Inspector General

Nashville, TN

Annual Salary: $67,764.00 - $87,912.00

Closing Date: 10/05/2026

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

The Tennessee Department of Correction operates and oversees 14 adult prisons across the state, housing some 21,000 offenders. In the community, TDOC supervises 79,000 offenders on probation, parole, or community corrections. The department operates 44 probation/parole offices in 13 districts across the state.

Job Overview

The Auditor 4 position is responsible for analyzing and updating audit work programs, reviewing policies, performing audits of all facilities, TDOC Central Office, and Tennessee Correctional Academy. Additionally, the Auditor 4 completes audits of regional evidence storage areas in the three (3) major regions of the state. This position reports directly to the Auditor Director 1- Internal Audit and Risk Mitigation.

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.