Director of Contract Agency Audits

City Of New York

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The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) supports youth and
community services through contracts with a broad network of Community-Based Organizations
(CBOs) throughout New York City. Our central task is administering available city, state, and federal
funds to a wide range of programs that positively impact youth and communities.
DYCD's Office of Contract Agency Audit's (OCA) mission is to perform fiscal monitoring of DYCD's
contracted CBOs to ensure they comply with DYCD's contract, the City of New York Health and
Human Services Cost Policies and Procedures Manual, DYCD's Fiscal Manual, and other applicable
City, State, and Federal regulations.
The Director of Contract Agency Audits will report directly to OCA's Senior Director and will oversee
two Deputy Directors. Deputy Directors oversee a combined total of 4 Senior Auditors. The Director
will be required to work independently to supervise the day-to-day tasks of the Deputy Directors and
Senior Auditors. In coordination with the OCA Senior Director. The Director will be responsible for:
- Creating and maintaining OCA protocols and standard operating procedures.
- Training Deputy Directors and Senior Auditors on OCA protocols and standard operating procedures.
- Developing annual training and professional development plans for Deputy Directors and Senior
Auditors.
- Training CBOs on contract provisions, fiscal manual requirements, and the general process of
DYCD's audits.
- Selecting the CBOs for DYCD's contracted CPA Firms to audit on an annual basis.
- Reviewing monthly status reports from DYCD's contracted CPA firms and following up to resolve
bottlenecks.
- Directly communicating with CBOs regarding CBO compliance with CPA Firm audit requests and
DYCD's acceptance or rejection of CBO responses to draft audit findings and corrective action plans.
- Processing, tracking, and reporting to DYCD Senior Management on CBO recoupments stemming
from audits with disallowed costs.
- Responding to CBO questions regarding allowable costs, appropriate cost allocation methodologies
and calculations, and general document retention requirements.
- Overseeing DYCD's Certificate of Compliance process, which documents all CBOs that are required
to submit Federal Uniform Guidance Reports, as well as collecting and reviewing CBO's Uniform
Guidance Reports and following up with CBOs on any findings.
- Collecting, reviewing, and explaining documentation required to meet DYCD's oversight entities'
requests.
- Overseeing special project audits performed by CPA Firms and OCA Senior Auditors to address
various referrals to the DYCD regarding potential fraud, waste, and abuse of City funds at CBOs.
- Overseeing the CPA Firm audit of DYCD's contracted Fiscal Agent
- Determining whether questioned costs from CPA firm audits should be disallowed and recouped from
CBOs by DYCD.

Qualifications

1. A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a closely related field, and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research; in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, or fiscal management; or in a related area. 18 months of this experience must have been in an executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above.

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The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
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