Accounts Payable Auditor

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The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) seeks to hire a Management Auditor who will function as the Account Payable Auditor within the Fiscal and Business Management (FBM) Line of Service.
Reporting directly to the Deputy Director, the Account Payable Auditor will be responsible for overseeing the OMNY Program payment processing, bank account management, reconciliations, and financial compliance. It ensures that vendor payments and expenditures are accurate, properly funded, fully documented, and processed in accordance with applicable policies, procedures, and Comptroller’s Directives.
- Manages the funding and replenishment of the OMNY bank account to ensure sufficient funds are available to meet payment obligations.
- Monitors the OMNY bank account for insufficient funds and coordinates timely funding as needed.
- Performs monthly bank reconciliations to ensure the accuracy and completeness of account activity and balances.
- Reviews ACH transactions to verify that amounts withdrawn from the OMNY bank account reconcile with amounts reported by OCP.
- Ensures all payment requests are thoroughly reviewed to verify that payments are legitimate, fully documented, properly authorized, and released to vendors within required timeframes, with accurate funding remitted.
- Audits procurement types and methodologies, competitive bidding and vendor award documentation, budget and accounting codes, prior disbursement history, pricing, discount provisions, quantities previously received, timesheets, liens, prevailing wage requirements, delivery and inspection certifications, special rate-escalation clauses, CPI adjustments, certified payrolls, retainage provisions, and assignments of payments and contracts to ensure compliance and proper payment distribution.
- Reviews and assists with the approval of vendor payments, reimbursements, and other expenditures, ensuring transactions are accurate, properly supported, and compliant with applicable policies and procedures.
To Apply:
Only permanent employees in the civil service title of Management Auditor or confirmed passers of the Management Auditor Exam # 7047 are eligible to apply.
Please go to www.nyc.gov/jobs, or www.nyc.gov/ess for current NYC employees, and search for Job ID # 801505.
No phone calls, faxes or personal inquiries permitted. Only those candidates under consideration will be contacted.
MANAGEMENT AUDITOR - 40502

A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by 24 semester credits in auditing, accounting, finance, economics, statistics, law, quantitative or qualitative research methodology, mathematics, data science, management, public or business administration, computer science/information
technology, or a related field, and one of the following:
(a) one year of full-time satisfactory experience in performance auditing according to Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards
(GAGAS), financial auditing, internal auditing, and/or information technology (IT) auditing; or
(b) a valid Certified Public Accountant license issued by the New York State Education Department; or
(c) a valid Certified Internal Auditor certificate issued by the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II individuals must have, in addition to
meeting the minimum requirements, at least one year of experience as a Management
Special Note
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II individuals must have, in addition to meeting the minimum requirements, at least one year of experience as a Management Auditor - Assignment I or at least two years of experience in performance auditing according to Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS), internal auditing, financial auditing, and/or information technology (IT) auditing.

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