Job Description About the Agency: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love. - We maintain building and resident safety and health - We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability - We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity. HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth. Your Team The newly-created Office of Compliance & Risk Management (CRM) centralizes various critical compliance, oversight, and hearing functions from across the agency to ensure fairness, consistency, and equity in both our external and internal engagements. CRM will collaborate with programs throughout HPD to ensure that the agency and its partners comply with laws (federal, state, and city), regulatory requirements, policies, and procedures. The Office includes the following Divisions and units: - Adjudications - Economic Opportunity & Regulatory Compliance - Public Information - Audit Support The Audit Support team helps agency staff and leaders to manage and coordinate program audits from City, State, and Federal funding and oversight entities; creates and enforces policies and procedures to make the program audit process as efficient and streamlined as possible; and helps ensure that conditions discovered in the context of audits are addressed through revised program practice. Your Impact As a member of Audit Support, the Director will spearhead program audit work for the agency by: - preparing for, strategizing, and responding to auditor requests and reports. - supporting program staff in implementing audit recommendations. - serving as an expert conduit between program staff, auditors, and other audit stakeholders. Through this work, the Director and all of Audit Support help protect resources critical to HPD’s mission of ensuring that New Yorkers have safe, stable, affordable housing. Your Role: Reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer, and working closely with other staff members in Audit Support and CRM, the Director will be one of the primary staff charged with leading HPD’s management of, and coordination around, audits conducted by entities that fund and govern program activity and agency commitments. The Director holds a key role in ensuring the efficiency of audits, the accuracy of information transmitted to auditors, and the strength of relationships with and between auditing entities and HPD staff. This CRM leadership role will provide a unique opportunity to help build out a new office. In addition to day-to-day responsibilities, you will learn about the different programs throughout the agency and help drive growth of CRM. Your Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include: - Managing all aspects of externally-initiated program audits, including (but not limited to): o Fielding communication from auditing entities prior to, between, and during audits, which will include: coordinating audit conferences (entrance, exit, and periodic), responding to requests for program materials and documents, providing or organizing orientation to program systems and technology, and answering general inquiries about previous audit findings / recommendations, and program progress. o Preparing materials for submission to auditors during audits. This task may include: supporting program staff in the collection and organization of existing program materials and data; help to develop custom explanations and context for these materials as needed. creating, or working with other SOA analysts to condense, synthesize, or perform specific analyses (qualitative and quantitative) of program data in response to audit-specific questions. discussing preliminary audit findings and summaries with auditors and program staff to clarify the agency’s positions, resolve misunderstandings about data, and promote collaborative practice between auditors and the agency. o Assisting in the preparation of agency responses to audit reports; collaborating with program staff to produce responses that diplomatically reflect the agency’s degree of concurrence with audit findings, and that describe acceptable, feasible, and relevant commitments related to audit recommendations. - Leading and coordinating processes to streamline program audit work, including (but not limited to): o Creating materials to simplify and automate periodic audit and oversight requirements (including NYC Directive 1 and HUD Single Audit); orienting program staff regularly to the use of these materials, and incorporating staff feedback to refine them. o Fostering relationships between audits with key audit representatives from City, State, and Federal funding / oversight entities to ensure their ongoing satisfaction with program operations and promote audit efficiency. - Advising staff on the implementation of commitments to audit recommendations and/or addressing and helping alleviate roadblocks to implementation. o Looking forward, creating more opportunities for the Audit Support team to help advise programs where they may need to establish or strengthen the policies and procedures to meet agency obligations. - Conduct internal audits, on a limited basis Preferred skills The ideal candidate will be inquisitive and solution-oriented, with the following skills: - Ability to thoughtfully investigate agency processes, draw conclusions, and develop responsive plans. - Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive, complex projects related to business operations, ideally in a public or nonprofit agency, and to coordinate with various parties to help complete them. - Strong communication skills, specifically: the ability to describe findings and issues to various audiences, compellingly and persuasively, in email, memos, and presentations, as well as one-to-one in-person. - Ability to analyze datasets using Excel, and to draw conclusions from investigation of data. - Interest in improving government practice and in devising solutions that support the advancement of affordable housing efforts through examination and strengthening of internal controls. Notes: - Please submit a cover letter as part of your application. - Only candidates in a permanent Admin Management Auditor or comparable civil service title will be considered. - This position is eligible for remote work up to two days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program agreed to between the City and their specific union. Qualifications 1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by 24 credits in accounting, including one course each in advanced accounting, auditing and cost accounting and five years of full-time experience in management auditing, EDP auditing, financial accounting and/or financial auditing, at least 18 months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity or in the supervision of several teams of auditors; or 2. A valid Certified Public Accountant License or a certificate as a Certified Internal Auditor and four years of full-time experience as indicated in "1" above, at least 18 months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity or in the supervision of several teams of auditors. Additional Information The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.