Requisition No: 789985 

Agency: Department of Transportation

Working Title: AUDITOR - 55000011

Position Number: 55000011 

Salary:  $43,399.98 - $56,164.68 

Posting Closing Date: 03/22/2023 

STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

JOB POSTING DESCRIPTION

906 / Office of Inspector General

OPEN COMPETITIVE

SELECTED EXEMPT SERVICE

CONTACT PERSON:  Heather Strickland

CONTACT PHONE NUMBER: 850-410-5822

CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS: Heather.Strickland@dot.state.fl.us

ANTICIPATED BI-WEEKLY HIRING SALARY: $1,949.62

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:  You may be required to provide your Social Security Number to conduct required verifications. Male candidates born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion in the Career Service, or appointment in the Selected Exempt Service (SES) or Senior Management Service (SMS) unless they are registered with the Selective Service System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS.

THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION VALUES AND SUPPORTS EMPLOYMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.  QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.
In accordance with Section 110.112, Florida Statutes, and the Florida Department of Transportation’s Individuals with Disabilities Affirmative Action Plan, the agency is committed to ensuring affirmative action and equal employment opportunity for qualified individuals with disabilities.  Upon request and as appropriate, reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities may be provided.  Please contact the Florida Department of Transportation’s Human Resources Office located at 605 Suwannee Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399, or call (850) 414-5300 for assistance.

Florida Department of Transportation

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is an executive agency and reports directly to the Governor’s Office. FDOT’s continuing mission is to provide a safe transportation system that ensures the mobility of people and goods, enhances economic prosperity, and preserves the quality of our environment and communities. This mission is accomplished through a primary purpose to plan and develop (either directly or indirectly) Florida’s robust transportation system. The unique nature of the Sunshine State and its year-round warm climate provides numerous opportunities to move people and goods through multiple modes including highways/streets, air, rail, sea, spaceport, transit, and ever-expanding deployment of bicycle & pedestrian facilities.

Our Values

One FDOT - We are one agency, one team.

INTEGRITY - We always do what is right.

RESPECT - We value diversity, talent, and ideas.

COMMITMENT - We do what we say we are going to do.

TRUST - We are open and fair.

CUSTOMER DRIVEN - We listen to our customers. 

Our Mission

FDOT will provide a safe transportation system that ensures the mobility of people and goods, enhances economic prosperity, and preserves the quality of our environment and communities.

Our Vision

As One FDOT team, we serve the people of Florida by providing a transportation network that is well planned, supports economic growth, and has the goal of being congestion and fatality free.

Why Join FDOT?

Because we are a proud and committed team seeking to attract, recruit, train, and retain a diverse workforce comprised of the best and brightest professionals. We value diversity in background and experiences, seeking to build a team of professionals who will foster a dynamic, inclusive, and collaborative work environment. Those individuals who consistently help FDOT inspire, innovate, and improve safety for all our transportation modes.

Opportunities for Growth and Professional Development

FDOT is an incredible place to work, offering a myriad of opportunities for career growth and professional development.

What better way to refine both your technical and power skills than through applied training? FDOT’s Training Mission is to improve productivity and meet work force needs, as specified in the requirements of Title X of the Florida Statutes, §§ 110.1099, 110.235, 110.403(3)(a), & 110.601.

FDOT accomplishes this mission by:

• Providing opportunities to better use and enhance employee skills and creating an atmosphere that encourages self-development,
• Developing, delivering, and coordinating programs to improve leadership, managerial and supervisory skills and implementing strategies to help managers and supervisors fulfill their responsibility to develop employees,
• Recommending, designing, delivering, and coordinating training efforts to increase job satisfaction and productivity, resulting in a highly trained workforce providing the highest possible return to our citizens,
• Projecting, assessing, and interpreting work force needs and recommending solutions,
• Ensuring a resource pool for FDOT's professional and technical work force requirements, and
• Collaborating with districts to diagnose and design strategies to solve specific work group problems.

Where Will I Work?

You will work within Florida’s beautiful capital city, Tallahassee, FL. Tallahassee is a city of continued growth and economic development, and home to the campuses of Florida State University (FSU), the Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU), and Tallahassee Community College (TCC). The office where you will report to daily is located at 3185 South Blair Stone Road.

What Will My Role Be?

The Florida Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General is in search of an Auditor (Management Review Specialist-SES) to join the Performance and Information Technology Audit team. This position will be responsible for conducting performance audits.  Performance audits provide information to improve program operations, facilitate decision making by parties with responsibility to oversee or initiate corrective action and contribute to public accountability. Specifically, performance audits: evaluate compliance, efficiency, effectiveness of policies and procedures and evaluates internal controls and recommend improvements as appropriate.

Your duties and responsibilities in this role will be to:

• Coordinate and conduct audits, special projects, and reviews of Department operations, programs, controls, contracts and agreements in compliance with professional and office standards, to promote accountability, integrity and process improvement in the department. 
• Develop assignment scopes, methodologies, and audit programs. 
• Prepare, research, and design evaluations of programs, systems, controls, policies, procedures and other functions using audit and analytical techniques. 
• Analyze supporting evidence, draw logical conclusions, and develop appropriate findings and recommendations. 
• When assigned as team leader by the supervisor, organize and facilitate the work of other team members to ensure the successful completion of the assignment.
• Prepare thorough, complete, and accurate documentation of work performed.  
• Prepare oral and written briefings. 
• Prepare draft and final reports.
• Perform procedure reviews.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Generally Accepted Auditing Standards, United States Government Accountability Office’s Government Auditing Standards, Institute of Internal Auditors' Professional Practices Framework, The Association of Inspectors' General Principles and Standards for Offices of Inspector General, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association’s Standards, Guidelines and Procedures
• Knowledge of information technology and operational auditing best practices, skills and techniques
• Knowledge of information systems technology such as mainframe and personal computer platforms, databases, word processing, electronic spreadsheets, graphic presentation software and data query computer languages
• Knowledge of the methods of compiling, reviewing, and analyzing performance, operations, and financial data;
• Skills to effectively use word processing, electronic spreadsheets, graphic presentation software and data query computer languages
• Ability to analyze network technologies, security strategies, operating software, and systems software
• Ability to understand, interpret and appropriately apply laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures including in regard to sensitive and confidential information
• Ability to confirm whether an entity is following the terms of an agreement, or the rules and regulations applicable to an activity or practice prescribed by an external agency or authority
• Ability to analyze problems using sound reasoning to identify alternative solutions and distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant information
• Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments based upon objectives, identify problems and opportunities, monitor progress, and accomplish goals
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing to express facts and ideas in a succinct and organized manner and make clear and convincing oral presentations
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others by listening and facilitating an open exchange of ideas
• Ability to learn and develop an understanding of complex organizational and financial processes and systems;
• Ability to apply technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness of work assignments

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.