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Salary range: $94,223.00 – $94,223.00

DCAS's mission is to make city government work for all New Yorkers. From managing New York City’s most iconic courthouses and municipal buildings, to purchasing over $1 billion annually in goods and services for more than 80 City agencies what we do ensures that all agencies can deliver on their mission. Our reach touches every facet of city government and is instrumental to the successful day-to-day operations of the City of New York.
Our commitment to equity, effectiveness, and sustainability guides our work providing City agencies with the critical resources and support needed to succeed, including:

• Recruiting, hiring, and training City employees.
• Managing 55 public buildings.
• Acquiring, selling, and leasing City property.
• Purchasing over $1 billion in goods and services for City agencies.
• Overseeing the greenest municipal vehicle fleet in the country.
• Leading the City's efforts to reduce carbon emissions from government operations.

When you work at DCAS, you're not just working for one agency, but in service of them all. It's an opportunity to provide impactful support, quality customer service, and help protect the future of New York City for generations to come. Visit our website at nyc.gov/dcas to learn more about the work we do.
ACS assists management with identifying and prioritizing areas or processes that require attention and audit/review focus by gaining an understanding of the processes and procedures as they currently exist; performing tests of controls to verify whether controls are working as designed; and providing observations and recommendations to improve processes and controls. ACS is also tasked with the coordination of all external audit activities and Agency responses to those audits; the review of required Federal grant reporting; the coordination of the City's Financial and Single Audits; the preparation and review of NYC Comptroller’s Directive 1, the DOI Agency Anti-Corruption Report, and the Agency Internal Control Statement; preparation and reporting of quarterly metrics identified by DOI; and developing and assisting in managing corrective action plans. ACS is also tasked with auditing DCAS program to reimburse non-public schools for allowable costs associated with security guard services to help provide assurance that this program is operating within the stated parameters. Besides this, a new unit within ACS was established to manage and monitor audits conducted by CPA firm(s), to audit Citywide Vendor Contracts.
With regards to citywide procurement DCAS processed orders for goods and services worth over $1.5 billion for over 100 NY City agencies, departments, boards and authorities. Whereas, DCAS has the overall responsibility to ensure that the contracted vendors are in compliance with the contract stipulations, terms, conditions, agreed upon prices, and specifications. As such, DCAS/Audit and Compliance Services seeks to hire a Vendor Contract Auditor to coordinate, monitor and conduct reviews of audit work performed by contracted CPA firm(s) pertaining to audits of Citywide master contracts under the purview of the Audit Director and Executive Director.

• Plan, coordinate and conduct detailed financial, operational, and management audits, reviews of DCAS’ Citywide Vendor Contracts,

• Conducting difficult in-house audits/reviews; monitoring contract compliance of vendors, consultants, and providers of technical and professional services, including the purchase of labor, material and equipment and making recommendations.

• Establish audit plans and testing designed to assess compliance with contract terms and conditions and to determine whether amounts claimed by the vendors and paid by NYC agencies were fully supported by documentation and all underlying conditions of payment.

• Reviewing CPA audit reports and recommendations, to ensure compliance and conformity with DCAS/ACS Agreed Upon Procedures, as well as contract terms and conditions.

• Ensuring work performed by the CPA/MWBE are consistent with contract terms and conditions, and all other forms of applicable rules and guidance, and that they meet the evidentiary and documentation requirements of GAGAS/AICPA, etc.

• Performing more difficult, detailed, complex and comprehensive cost-benefit and work simplification analyses and making recommendations, report observations and findings that are fully supported by documentary evidence and appropriate work papers to the Director of ACS. Prepare and issue audit reports detailing audit testing, methodology, finding and recommendations to improve agency operations.

• Assist with developing, tracking and following up on corrective actions related to non-monetary and monetary recoupments/adjustments identified in the audit.

• Provide senior management with detail comprehensive cost-benefit and work simplification analyses reporting, draft Memos with audit findings and corrective action recommendations.

• Facilitate and conduct entrance and exit conferences and other audit related meetings with agency managers, other City Agency representatives, and vendors to facilitate the audit and audit goals.

• Perform special projects, assignments, and initiatives on an as needed basis,

• Maintaining audit files in accordance with GAGAS and ACS policy, and

• Performing related duties.

The VCA Unit require staff with significant experience of Vendor Contract and/or financial auditing, and auditing of claims for payment to assess their validity on a pre or post payment basis, in order to perform this work effectively; while supporting the agency’s continued efforts to manage contracted vendors, mitigate risk on a strategic and effective level.

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