Managing Internal Controls, Audit Remediation, Readiness, and Risk Management Consultant

Guidehouse Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse Inc. is seeking a qualified professional to support a homeland security government agency, focusing on internal controls, risk management, and financial statement audit readiness.

The role involves evaluating ICOFR, testing controls, documenting processes, and collaborating with senior management to implement remediation strategies. The ideal candidate will work with cross-functional teams, develop risk mitigation plans, and contribute to a range of financial risk assessments and

Qualifications

• Experience evaluating internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR) and operations.
• Ability to perform end-to-end walkthroughs of business processes, document controls, test design and operating effectiveness.
• Experience supporting audit readiness and remediation efforts in a federal context.
• Ability to identify financial risks and support risk mitigation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Support annual internal control planning to define scope of testing and assessments.
• Evaluate ICOFR and controls per standards and report deficiencies.
• Provide audit liaison support to facilitate a smooth financial statement audit.
• Develop risk mitigation plans and corrective actions for process improvements.
• Assist with data collection, analysis, and reporting to improve decision-making.
• Contribute to policy and procedure development for programs and operations.

Skills

ICOFR

Internal Controls

Financial Analysis

Audit Liaison

Risk Management

Job description

Job Family : Finance & Accounting Consulting

Travel Required : None

Clearance Required : Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do :

Our professionals help our clients to identify, evaluate, and solve some of their most complex challenges, assisting them in achieving their strategic goals and objectives to fulfill their mission. We help our clients transform their business processes, improve efficiency of operations, evaluate and improve internal controls, strengthen policies and controls, increase transparency and performance management, and comply with Federal laws and regulations.

The nature of our projects can be fluid and requires self-motivated individuals that are willing to develop solutions on their own or in a team of highly skilled professionals. Project team members are provided the opportunity to interact with our clients' senior management, as well as the opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of technical competency, business development, client service, leadership, project management, and people development.

This role will support a Government agency within the homeland security enterprise with opportunities to expand your support to other national security-related organizations. Specific initiatives and work products that this role supports may include:

Primary Support Areas

• Supporting annual internal control planning efforts to determine the scope of internal control assessment efforts and testing to be performed based on the risk profile of the organization and specific financial risks that have been identified through financial risk assessments and tracking.
• Evaluating internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR) and internal controls over operations in line with OMB Circular A-123 for a range of financial and business process areas, to including performing end-to-end walkthroughs of business processes, documenting business processes and controls, testing the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls, and reporting on deficiencies.
• Performing internal controls over operations and assessments of improper payments in support of the Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA).
• Providing audit liaison support services to help facilitate a smooth financial statement audit process.
• Providing a broad range of financial statement audit and audit risk management and remediation support that support the agency's goals to maintain a clean audit opinion and improve internal controls.

Additional/Secondary Support Areas

• Providing financial risk management program support to include maintaining the agency's financial risk register (identifying, evaluating, and tracking financial risks and their mitigation strategies across the enterprise), completing annual fraud risk assessments, and preparation of the annual Statement of Assurance completed by the head of the agency.
• Supporting the development and execution of risk mitigation plans, corrective action plans, and broader remediation strategies designed to address financial risks and internal control or audit deficiencies and strengthen financial processes.
• Assessing the impact of new guidance on financial operations and supporting the implementation of new guidance when applicable.
• Completing Entity Level Control (ELC) assessments and testing, including developing materials to perform the assessment, interviewing and surveying management and other client personnel, and compiling results to show data and assessment conclusions.
• More broadly, this team member will be engaged in a diverse set of project-specific tasks covering a broad set of consulting capabilities, including:
• Apply a variety of analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills and techniques
• Documenting and evaluating business processes and making recommendations for process improvements
• Producing a variety of communications from informal email interactions with clients to formal memos, issue papers, presentations, executive briefings, and others
• Conducting research to investigate client problems and work collaboratively with your team to formulate and recommend solutions
• Assist clients in analyzing projects and programs to identify risks and help develop, apply, and monitor mitigations
• Support clients in collecting and analyzing data, producing models and visualizations, and draw conclusions from the data to improve decision-making
• Analyze and help develop and/or improve policies and procedures for a variety of programs and operational needs

In addition to client-facing responsibilities, this role will support important activities that contribute to the growth of our business, strengthen internal Guidehouse operations, and create a positive work environment for all Guidehouse employees. Some of these activities include but are not limited to:

Assisting in business development activities, such as identifying potential client needs and ways Guidehouse can assist, developing proposals and white papers, participating in client and internal account meetin