Description
Salary: $52,286 - $78,416
Position Grade: 210G
Department: Multiple Departments
Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1601
Location: St. Louis, MO
Incumbents in this position are responsible for performing audits and fiscal monitoring of City departments and sub-contractors to ensure responsibility and accountability for City funds/assets.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Performs analytical procedures of current and prior years’ revenues, expenditures and budget in order to develop audit programs and plans.
- Coordinates due dates and budgets for assigned tasks; ensures completion of projects by predetermined due dates or revises audit plan, if necessary.
- Assesses business and operations risks for major processes; determines effectiveness of management policies or procedures; assesses proposals for cost avoidance.
- Meets with clients prior to audit to discuss expectations, concerns, and performance measures; meets with client post-audit to discuss audit recommendations.
- Performs audit tests of cost representations, accounting systems and records, internal controls, policies, performance measures and other management information pertinent to the audit. Develops advisory reports of audit findings and recommendations; prepares an ongoing audit program for clients to achieve audit objectives.
- Resolves conflict in the field while attempting to collect all necessary information.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to persuade, convince, influence, train and monitor, in favor of a desired outcome. Requires the ability to sell. Requires the ability to act as a lead person.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a personal computer, calculator, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as operational reports, contracts, bank statements, budgets, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals; requires the ability to interpret descriptive statistics.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, managing, leading, teaching, directing, planning, coordinating and controlling. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
- Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.
- Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling of objects weighing five (5) to ten (10) pounds, such as moving a portable computer from location to location. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.
- Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify degrees of similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes and sounds associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks, such as determining processes from a flow-chart diagram.
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a Business degree with a minimum of 30 credit hours in Accounting.
Preferences: Professional Auditing experience.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.
