Senior IT Audit SME: SAP/WMS Compliance

C5MI; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Medical, dental, vision

Job summary

C5MI is seeking an IT Systems Audit SME to serve as the senior technical authority for audit readiness, internal controls, and compliance within the WMS environment. You will drive end-to-end assessments, validate transaction traceability, and lead remediation efforts across DoD and federal requirements.

The role collaborates across functional and technical teams to strengthen control effectiveness, maintain continuous audit readiness, and deliver evidence-backed results for government

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Business, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Cybersecurity, Finance.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience supporting IT audit, financial audit readiness, internal controls, compliance, enterprise risk management, or related audit‑assurance activities.
• Minimum 5 years of experience supporting DoD/federal ERP, logistics, supply‑chain, warehouse‑management, inventory‑accountability, or comparable enterprise business systems, including demonstrated experience assessing system‑enabled business‑process controls.
• Experience performing internal‑control assessments, control design and operating‑effectiveness testing, transaction testing, root‑cause analysis, and corrective‑action development.

Responsibilities

• Leads WMS audit-readiness assessments focused on operational compliance, inventory accountability, financial accountability, transaction traceability, and internal-control effectiveness.
• Evaluates end-to-end WMS/SAP business processes and associated controls, including receiving, putaway, inventory management, physical inventory/cycle counting, inventory adjustments, picking, packing, shipping, goods movements, returns, and associated accountability and financial interfaces.
• Traces transactions from physical warehouse events and source documentation through WMS/SAP system records, interfaces, and downstream accountability and financial records to validate completeness, accuracy, timeliness, authorization, and auditability.
• Assesses control design and operating effectiveness, identifies control deficiencies and process gaps, evaluates compensating controls, and recommends sustainable corrective actions.
• Evaluates system-enabled controls associated with user access, segregation of duties, master data, transaction processing, interfaces, exception handling, system changes, and audit evidence retention applicable to the WMS environment.
• Develops and maintains audit-control documentation, process and control maps, risk assessments, control matrices, testing documentation, and audit-support packages.
• Supports audit testing through population identification, transaction sampling, evidence collection, evidence sufficiency assessment, walkthroughs, control testing, and documentation of results.
• Develops Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) addressing audit findings and control deficiencies; monitors remediation activities, validates corrective actions, and supports closure through resolution.
• Performs root-cause analysis of audit findings, operational deficiencies, inventory discrepancies, transaction failures, and process non‑compliance to identify systemic causes and appropriate corrective measures.
• Evaluates the audit and internal‑control impact of WMS Incidents (INCs), Change Requests (CRs), system enhancements, interfaces, and business‑process changes, and recommends appropriate risk‑mitigation measures.
• Develops audit‑risk dashboards, trend analyses, compliance metrics, and executive‑level briefings to provide Government leadership visibility into audit posture, control deficiencies, remediation status, and emerging risks.
• Collaborates with WMS functional, technical, logistics, financial, cybersecurity, and operational stakeholders to strengthen internal controls and improve audit sustainability and operational effectiveness.
• Supports Government interactions with internal and external auditors, including audit engagements, RFEs, walkthroughs, transaction testing, control validation, findings analysis, and remediation activities.
• Recommends business‑process and system‑control improvements that enhance auditability, inventory accountability, financial integrity, operational performance, and compliance.

Skills

Audit readiness

Internal controls

Risk assessment

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Business, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Cybersecurity, Finance

Tools

SAP ERP

SAP S/4HANA

WMS

Job description

C5MI is seeking an IT Systems Audit SME to serve as the senior technical authority for audit readiness, internal controls, and compliance within the WMS environment. You will drive end-to-end assessments, validate transaction traceability, and lead remediation efforts across DoD and federal requirements.

The role collaborates across functional and technical teams to strengthen control effectiveness, maintain continuous audit readiness, and deliver evidence-backed results for government