AUDITOR 2 - DCS INTERNAL AUDIT - DAVIDSON - 79634

Executive Service

• AUDITOR 2
• DCS INTERNAL AUDIT
• DAVIDSON Department of Children's Services Internal Audit Nashville, TN Annual Salary: $48,684.00 - $60,936.00 Closing Date: 08/03/2026

Background Check

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

How You Make a Difference In This Role

The Department of Children's Services (DCS) is Tennessee's public child welfare agency. The purpose of the internal audit function is to strengthen the Department of Children's Services (DCS) ability to create, protect, and sustain value by providing the DCS Commissioner and management with independent, risk-based, and objective assurance, advice, insight and foresight.

The department follows the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global Internal Audit Standards in performing internal audit, assessments, and consulting activities. DCS Internal Auditor 2s are responsible for completing audit interviews, audit work steps, and test work on a variety of different internal audit engagements, including subrecipient/recipient and contract monitoring engagements.

Evaluate compliance with policies and state and federal laws and regulations. Evaluate internal controls for adequacy and effectiveness. Analyze large datasets using Excel and/or ACL. Lead audit interviews and inquiries. Draft process flowcharts. Complete audit workpapers accurately and timely. Write audit findings ensuring the criteria, condition, cause, effect, and recommendation is clearly articulated.

Evaluate the significance of audit exceptions noted.

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in accounting or a Public Accountant in good standing and experience equivalent to one year of full-time professional auditing work.

OR

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree including thirty-six quarter hours in accounting and experience equivalent to one year of full-time professional auditing work.

Substitution of Education for Experience: Additional graduate coursework in business administration with a major in accounting may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace.

It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.