Job Description

Senior Contractor Support to ACT Office of Internal Audit

Norfolk, VA

DEFTEC delivers mission-critical solutions through skillfully delivered services and innovative products. We are inspired by our clients' critical missions and driven to provide the most effective solutions to execute their missions, operational challenges, and requirements. Our dedicated, experienced, and talented employees work closely with our clients to ensure the delivery of exceptional services and products.

As a senior contractor supporting the ACT Office of Internal Audit, this position advances ACT's mission by conducting compliance and integrity audits, inspections, and reviews across the organization to ensure adherence to international auditing standards, applicable laws, regulations, and ACT policies. The contractor will analyze and update the ACT audit universe, evaluate travel management activities and internal controls, assess the effectiveness of management responses to prior audits, and support ACT's implementation of NATO and ACT anti‑fraud and anti‑corruption directives. The role includes responding to irregular compliance issues, performing risk assessments, updating audit methodologies for agile auditing, reviewing travel and risk management processes, and conducting ad‑hoc analytical tasks for senior leadership. This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance, advanced experience in compliance and forensic auditing, strong data analysis skills, professional accreditation (such as CFE or CPA), proven communication abilities, and the ability to work independently without conflicts of interest.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conducts compliance and integrity audits, inspections, reviews, and audit tests in accordance with international auditing standards, and ACT audit policies and procedures. Reviews protocols and advises ACT leadership on regulations and policies.
• Assess and evaluate ACT's compliance with applicable laws and regulations. This involves conducting detailed reviews of travel activities (travel plans, travel approvals, travel claims, etc.).
• Analyze, consolidate, and update the ACT audit universe (requires significant spreadsheet analysis) to reflect the actual activities undertaken, in Travel, Finance, programs of work, and Human Resources. Reconciliation and joining of branch information and plans will be necessary to provide organizational overview, branch review, and deep dive audits and inspections where necessary.
• Determine the effectiveness of management response to previous audit recommendations, internal control risk and compliance with applicable NATO and ACT financial policies. Support senior leadership in their daily decision-making relating to emerging travel non-compliance and ACT's implementation of NATO's and ACT's anti­fraud and corruption strategies and directives.
• Respond to potentially serious or irregular compliance issues and violations, and consults with management on appropriate responses.
• Support to other audit activities approved in ACT's annual Risk Based Audit Plan covering all aspects of the ACT audit universe.
• Analyze internal audit processes and update ACT internal audit manuals to adapt to agile auditing of areas that rapidly changes within the yearly planning cycle.
• Develop and conduct audit risk assessment of ACT resource management activities to continue risk-based auditing and identify risk areas. When needed, update internal audit methodology to reflect the right risk assessments and audit universe.
• Review the execution, implementation, status and effectiveness of ACT's travel management and risk management process; report on the status and effectiveness of risk registers and advise on all governance issues arising from these reviews.
• To undertake ad-hoc analyses and studies if relevant as tasked by the Chief of Staff and ACT Head of Internal Audit.

Required Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• University Degree in accounting, finance, business administration or related discipline and 4 years function related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 5 years post related and 4 years function related experience.
• 6 or more years of experience performing compliance, integrity, and/or forensic auditing.
• 4 or more years of experience in travel management (and associated Internal Controls) and/or auditing travel management (planning, requisitions, claim liquidation, etc.) in a large organization.
• Experience in retrieving, compiling, structuring, statistical and non-statistical sampling, and analyzing large data sets of financial and travel information.
• Experience with Accounting software and Microsoft office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications.
• Hold a recognized professional fraud examiner (CFE) and/or professional accounting (CPA, CMA, etc.) qualification.
• Proven forensic accounting or forensic investigation experience.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly and persuasively, both orally and in writing to senior management (specialist and non-specialist audiences).
• No conflicts of interest with any ACT staff.

DEFTEC offers a comprehensive whole-life benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, holiday, paid time off, 401K with a match, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and educational reimbursement. The DEFTEC team comprises professionals who make a difference daily in crucial national security missions. Our leadership knows that this happens by employing a diverse team that is well cared for. Our top priority is our employees, making DEFTEC an ideal workplace.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Please get in touch with HR@deftec.com if you require reasonable accommodations.

DEFTEC is a Drug-Free Workplace where post-offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met as outlined in our policies.

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