Senior Compliance Auditor / Project Manager

Position Summary

TriMerge Consulting Group, P.A. is seeking an experienced Senior Compliance Auditor / Project Manager to lead federal, state, and local government compliance review engagements. This position will serve as the engagement lead responsible for planning, executing, supervising, and reporting on compliance assessments, internal control reviews, transaction testing, policy evaluations, and operational improvement initiatives.

The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in government auditing, internal controls, compliance monitoring, financial management, and risk assessment. The individual must be capable of independently managing client relationships, supervising staff, preparing executive-level reports, and presenting findings and recommendations to agency leadership.

This role will support engagements involving federal regulatory compliance, travel compliance reviews, grant compliance, financial management assessments, operational reviews, internal controls evaluations, corrective action monitoring, and process improvement initiatives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Project Management & Client Leadership

• Serve as Engagement Manager and primary point of contact for assigned government clients.
• Develop project workplans, schedules, milestones, staffing plans, and quality control procedures.
• Coordinate meetings, status updates, interviews, and information requests with client personnel.
• Monitor project budgets, schedules, deliverables, and resource utilization.
• Ensure contractual requirements and deliverable deadlines are achieved.

Compliance Reviews & Internal Controls

• Lead compliance assessments of government programs, financial transactions, grants, travel programs, procurement activities, and administrative operations.
• Evaluate compliance with federal regulations, agency policies, contract requirements, grant provisions, and internal procedures.
• Assess internal control design and operating effectiveness.
• Identify risks, control weaknesses, process inefficiencies, and compliance deficiencies.
• Evaluate segregation of duties, approval workflows, documentation practices, and monitoring activities.
• Conduct root cause analysis of identified findings and deficiencies.

Audit & Transaction Testing

• Design testing methodologies and sampling approaches.
• Oversee transaction testing activities performed by staff.
• Review financial records, supporting documentation, invoices, vouchers, receipts, reconciliations, approvals, and system-generated reports.
• Analyze data to identify trends, anomalies, duplicate payments, unsupported costs, and potential compliance concerns.
• Review and validate staff workpapers and testing results.

Reporting & Recommendations

• Prepare executive summaries, compliance reports, assessment reports, management letters, corrective action reports, and briefing materials.
• Draft findings, observations, recommendations, and risk assessments.
• Present results to executive leadership, department heads, governing boards, and oversight agencies.
• Support development and evaluation of corrective action plans.

Staff Supervision

• Supervise auditors, analysts, consultants, interns, and subcontractors.
• Review workpapers, analyses, reports, and deliverables.
• Provide mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance to project staff.
• Ensure quality assurance standards are consistently met.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Public Administration, Business Administration, or related discipline.
• Minimum seven (7) years of progressive experience in auditing, compliance, internal controls, financial management, risk management, grants management, or government consulting.
• Minimum three (3) years of project management or supervisory experience.
• Experience leading government compliance reviews, internal audits, operational assessments, or financial management engagements.
• Demonstrated experience preparing formal findings and executive reports.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) preferred.
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), CGFM, CISA, CRMA, PMP, or similar credential desirable.
• Experience supporting federal, state, or local government agencies.
• Experience with:
• Federal Travel Regulation (FTR)
• Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200)
• OMB Circulars
• GAGAS (Yellow Book)
• Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
• Internal Control Frameworks (GAO Green Book, COSO)
• Experience reviewing government travel programs, grants, procurement, payroll, or financial operations.
• Familiarity with Concur, SharePoint, ERP systems, and financial management systems.

Technical Skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Data analysis and reconciliation
• Audit sampling methodologies
• Report writing and presentation development
• Internal control documentation
• Risk assessment methodologies