Senior Compliance Review Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create and uphold a risk-informed compliance review framework, including review plans, procedures, evidence standards, templates, and checklists that align with governmental guidance.

• Execute reviews to confirm program participation, services or activities performed, supporting documentation, operational practices, and ongoing adherence to relevant requirements.

• Prepare and manage logs for information requests, receipt confirmations, evidence inventories, and follow-up communications.

• Evaluate the adequacy, reliability, and consistency of submitted records while identifying exceptions, control deficiencies, and potential noncompliance issues.

• Conduct interviews or virtual walkthroughs, as permitted, to gain insights into operational practices and validate documentary evidence.

• Record review scope, methodology, testing conducted, findings, supporting evidence, and suggested follow-up actions.

• Categorize findings based on severity and risk, and facilitate the escalation of significant issues to the Project Manager.

• Maintain comprehensive, organized, and review-ready audit workpapers with clear traceability between evidence, testing, and conclusions.

• Oversee corrective actions and validate closure documentation when requested.

• Analyze cross-cutting audit trends and propose program controls, applicant guidance, standard operating procedure updates, or targeted technical assistance.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, auditing, business administration, public administration, compliance, healthcare administration, or a related discipline.

• At least 5 years of experience in auditing, monitoring, internal control, investigative review, or regulatory compliance.

• Proven experience in planning audits, gathering evidence, conducting testing, and drafting clear findings and recommendations.

• Knowledge of audit principles, evidence adequacy, sampling techniques, workpaper documentation, and corrective-action tracking.

• Capability to manage sensitive information while maintaining objectivity and exercising professional skepticism, all within a service-oriented framework.

• Exceptional interviewing, analytical, writing, and stakeholder management skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams, and SharePoint, or equivalent audit and document management tools.

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S.

• Professional certifications such as CIA, CGAP, CCEP, CFE, or equivalent are preferred.

• Experience in reviewing federal programs, healthcare initiatives, nonprofits, volunteer organizations, or community-service providers is preferred.

• Familiarity with Government Accountability Office auditing concepts, internal control frameworks, or federal grants and compliance monitoring is preferred.

• Experience in developing risk-based audit plans and data-driven sampling strategies is preferred.

• Experience supporting the VA or other federal health, benefits, or human services programs is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Veterans, members of the Reserve and National Guard, and transitioning active-duty service members are strongly encouraged to apply.