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As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.
Are you ready to join our team?
Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.
SUMMARY OF DUTIES
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Provides vision, direction, and focus to align audit work to accomplish the Inspector General’s strategic goals by supervising complex audits, ensuring soundness and integrity of audit work, and effectively using assigned staff.
- Provides context and perspective to subordinates on Amtrak and OIG strategic plans. Develops audit proposals in concert with the OIG strategic plan, and to support the annual audit planning process.
- Develops audit plans that address the audit objectives and provides a clear path for developing convincing findings and actionable recommendations.
- Provides management, oversight, and leadership to the audit teams to keep projects on track and ensure quality work in the process. Provides leadership in audit matters as well as administrative areas.
- Supervises the collection and analysis of data; ensures that evidence collected is reliable, sufficient, relevant, and properly documented in the project work papers and complies with GAGAS and Amtrak OIG’s policies and procedures.
- Develops well supported audit reports that recommend process improvement and/or cost recoveries.
- Produces final products, such as briefings, message meeting documents, reports, testimonies, and/or fact sheets; ensures all products are clear, convincing, and accurate.
- Keeps OIG management informed of the audit progress, potentially controversial matters, and options for managing these matters.
- Leads and provides on-the-job training and coaching to a diverse multi-disciplined staff of professional auditors and analysts.
- Provides team members feedback regarding performance and monitors their progess in against individual goals.
- Develops highly productive working relationships with internal and external parties, and fosters teamwork, collaboration, and coordination.
- Facilitates auditee meetings and interviews.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Public Administration, Economics or other related field, or equivalent combination of education, training and work experience.
- Must have at least 4 years of relevant experience that included conducting performance audits of programs and operations.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Proven analytical, problem solving, and project management skills.
- Ability to multi-task with attention to detail.
- Ability to work across organizational boundaries to reach mutual goals.
- Able to maintain composure in stressful situations and maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.
- Proficiency in using data analysis and computer-based tools including Microsoft Office Suite and similar products.
- Experience using Teammate or similar audit work paper management systems.
- In depth understanding and ability to apply GAGAS and other audit policies and procedures.
- Demonstrated supervisory skills or prior supervisory experience.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities.
- An advanced degree from an accredited university (e.g., MPA, MBA).
- Familiarity with the accountability community (e.g., OIG, GAO).
- Familiarity with passenger rail operations and/or transportation operations.
- Professional certification (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA, CFE, PMP).
Requisition ID:162803
Posting Location(s):District of Columbia; Illinois; Pennsylvania
Work Arrangement:05-Hybrid Monthly
Job Family/Function:Government Affairs
Relocation Offered:No
Travel Requirements:Up to 25%
You power our progress through your performance.
We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job. We want your career at Amtrak to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging work, rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, and attractive compensation. Amtrak maintains a culture that values high performance and recognizes individual employee contributions.
Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol. All Amtrak positions requires a pre-employment background check that includes prior employment verification, a criminal history check and a pre-employment drug screen.
Candidates who test positive for marijuana will be disqualified, regardless of any state or local statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Amtrak's pre-employment drug testing program is administered in accordance with DOT regulations and applicable law.
In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.
In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for providers of public transportation (Title 6 U.S.C. §1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses.
Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Amtrak is an EOE/Affirmative Action Minority/Female employer, and we welcome all to apply. We consider candidates regardless of race/color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions), national origin/ethnicity, age, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.
