Program Manager / Lead Auditor

Role: Program Manager / Lead Auditor

Location: Remote / Aberdeen, MD 

Recommended Education: BA/BS (preference for Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Management Information Systems, or related)

Years of Experience: 7+ years Risk Management & Internal Controls (RMIC)/audit support; 5+ years supporting DoD environments

Clearance Level & Investigation: Secret (updated 7/30/26); must be U.S. citizen

Recommended Certifications: Preference for one of the following certs – Certified Public Accountant (CPA); Certified Internal Auditor (CIA); Certified Government Auditing Professional (CGAP); Certified Risk Management Assurance (CRMA); Certified Internal Control Auditor (CICA); Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt or Black Belt); ISO 9001 Lead Auditor or ISO 17025 Lead Assessor

Skills & Expertise: DoD RMIC policy; audit frameworks; federal internal control standards; Statement of Assurance activities; control assessments; remediation efforts; corrective & preventive action plans; documentation / SOPs; policies / governance; ISO 9001 & ISO 17025 frameworks; data analysis tools; MS Office Suite; DoD ledger systems; DoD financial / reporting requirements

Job Description:

The Program Manager / Lead Auditor is tasked with maintaining, assessing, and remediating enterprise risk management and internal controls for our DoD customer, based on existing business processes and infrastructure.

Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. citizen capable of obtaining a DoD Common Access Card (CAC) for program duration; requires Secret clearance, per Customer direction given on 7/30/26.
• Must have at least 7 years of experience in RMIC and/or audit support with at least 5 years supporting DoD environments.
• Requires in-depth knowledge of DoD RMIC policy (i.e., DoDI 5010.40, OMB Circular A-123, GAO Green Book), audit frameworks, and federal internal control standards.
• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and excellent communication skills; demonstrated ability to interface with senior leadership and process owners.
• Requires demonstrated success implementing and managing DoD RMIC programs, including control assessments, corrective and preventive action plans, Statement of Assurance activities, and remediation efforts in complex DoD environments.
• Must have experience developing or reviewing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), policies, and process documentation.
• Must have demonstrated knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 19011, and ISO 17025 requirements.
• Requires proficiency with MS Office Suite, data analysis tools.
• BA/BS in business, accounting, finance, management information systems, or other relevant field highly desired.
• Relevant professional certification (CPA, CIA, CRMA, CICA, Lean Six) a plus.
• Familiarity with DoD general ledger systems, such as GFEBs, LMP, ERP; key control areas; and financial / reporting requirements highly desired.
• Must be willing to travel on a frequent basis to California, Pennsylvania, or Florida.

Responsibilities:

• Perform computer system integration, administrative, technical, & financial management; communicate monthly on program status towards achieving objectives, including technical activities and efforts, problems/deficiencies, impacts, & recommended solutions.
• Create detailed project plan to be included with monthly status report.
• Conduct Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs) as necessary, scheduling when technical interchange is required between government and contractor.
• Travel as necessary and provide report following all travel to include objectives achieved and action items.
• Provide fusion of information technology (IT) with process architectures, metric systems, & compliance requirements to optimize performance / efficiency across enterprise.
• Maximize availability of process & control information through IT applications to provide on-going (continual) monitoring of process health and effectiveness of controls.
• Minimize efforts required to provide necessary control test information that supports annual A-123 Statement of Assurance.
• Work with various process owners to develop test plans to ensure controls are tested and analyzed for effectiveness; work with process owners to follow all test plans and determine if controls are adequate or not.
• Work with various process owners to assess deficiencies discovered in control testing, identify root causes, and develop corrective & preventive action reports (CPARs) as Customer management determines applicable; generate deficiency acknowledgment & risk acceptance (DARA) in CPAR system for all accepted risks.
• Monitor CPARs status & facilitate completion of planned actions, including retesting of control effectiveness.
• Identify, track, & provide or coordinate submittal for deliverables to satisfy Statement of Assurance requirements per DoDI 5010.40.
• Provide training to process owners/managers and process teams on their roles in enterprise program, including process, risk, objective, and control identification, how test plans are executed, and follow-on activities included in enterprise program.
• Summarize all work accomplished on program, including significant technical accomplishments, problems encountered, solutions implemented, recommendations for improvement, and comparison of planned schedules and costs with final performance; submit final report annually covering all accomplishments during previous period of performance.