Senior Financial Audit Analyst

Seneca Holdings

$95K — $115K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum of 5 years of federal audit, audit readiness, or compliance experience.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for clear audit issue interpretation.
  • Active DoD Secret security clearance.
  • Experience with FIAR methodology and internal controls.

Responsibilities

  • Support execution of financial statement audit readiness and remediation tasks.
  • Analyze audit findings and assist in developing corrective action plans.
  • Perform internal control testing and document financial transactions and processes.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and auditors to address audit requirements.
  • Prepare audit documentation and supporting evidence for assertions.
  • Maintain audit readiness documentation with traceability and completeness.
  • Liaise with external auditors to coordinate audit responses.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on a strategic audit initiative within the DoD.
  • Role essential to advancing agency financial auditability efforts.
  • Collaborative work environment focused on complex audit challenges.
  • Engagement with both internal and external stakeholders in meaningful audit processes.
Full Job Description
Great Hill is seeking a Senior Financial Audit Analyst to support a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency as part of a strategic audit remediation and sustainment initiative. This position plays a critical role in advancing the agency's progress toward full financial auditability in alignment with DoD's Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) goals. The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of federal audit standards, internal controls, and financial compliance within the DoD environment. A successful candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative setting focused on complex audit challenges and enterprise transformation.

Roles and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
  • Support the execution of financial statement audit readiness and remediation tasks.
  • Analyze audit findings and assist in developing and implementing corrective action plans.
  • Perform internal control testing and support documentation of financial transactions and processes.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, external auditors, and leadership to ensure audit requirements are clearly understood and addressed.
  • Assist in preparing audit documentation and supporting evidence packages for audit assertions and walkthroughs.
  • Maintain audit readiness documentation repositories, ensuring traceability and completeness of evidence.
  • Liaise with external audit firms and internal stakeholders to coordinate responses to audit requests.

Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related field (or at least 5 years of equivalent federal financial management or auditing experience in lieu of a degree).
  • Minimum of 5 years of federal audit, audit readiness, or financial compliance experience.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interpret and communicate audit issues clearly.
  • Active DoD Secret security clearance.

Desired Skills:
  • CPA, PMP, CFE or DoD Financial Management Certification (Level 1, 2, or 3)
  • Experience with FIAR methodology, including internal controls, testing, and remediation.
  • Familiarity with key audit focus areas such as Order-to-Cash (O2C0, Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Real Property, and Fund Balance with Treasury (FBwT).
  • Experience with collections, unmatched transactions, and intergovernmental reconciliations.
  • Exposure to data analytics to support audit resolution and financial trend analysis.
  • Proficiency in SQL, Python, R, Power BI, or similar tools to extract and analyze financial data.

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