Campaign Finance Auditor
About The Position
The Campaign Finance Auditor reports directly to the Campaign Finance Supervisor and collaborates closely with other auditors and compliance staff. The position concentrates on examining campaign finance disclosure reports filed with the North Carolina State Board of Elections and evaluates financial information for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with North Carolina campaign finance laws, administrative rules, and State Board policies. The Auditor performs assigned routine through moderately complex examinations, documents findings, communicates deficiencies to treasurers, and verifies amended reports and other corrective actions. The position manages its assigned workload under the Supervisor's audit plan and review procedures and elevates complex, unresolved, or potentially unlawful activity for further review. This position has no direct reports.
Requirements
- Working knowledge of accounting and auditing principles, financial recordkeeping, reconciliation, and the use of evidence to support findings.
- Ability to learn and apply North Carolina campaign finance laws, administrative rules, reporting requirements, and agency examination procedures.
- Ability to examine moderately complex financial information, identify missing or inconsistent data, and reconcile reports across reporting periods.
- Ability to trace transactions to supporting records and reconstruct financial activity from incomplete or disorganized information when assigned.
- Skill in preparing accurate workpapers, examination memoranda, correspondence, and concise summaries of findings and corrective actions.
- Ability to use spreadsheets, financial databases, reporting software, and data analysis tools to identify exceptions and track audit work.
- Ability to organize a high volume of assigned reports, meet review deadlines, and communicate workload or compliance concerns promptly.
- Ability to explain reporting deficiencies and correction procedures clearly while recognizing matters requiring supervisory or legal guidance.
- Ability to work professionally and impartially with treasurers, candidates, county election staff, agency attorneys, and other stakeholders.
- Sound judgment, attention to detail, and discretion in handling financial records and confidential investigative information.
- Bachelor’s degree from an appropriately accredited institution and three (3) years progressively responsible experience related to the area of assignment; or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
Responsibilities
- Prepare workpapers that identify the report reviewed, procedures performed, evidence examined, exceptions, applicable requirements, and conclusions. Submit work for supervisory review.
- Prepare audit correspondence and draft examination memoranda describing reporting errors, potential prohibited transactions, and recommended corrective actions using approved procedures.
- Communicate questions and findings to treasurers, track applicable response periods, and document responses, requested extensions, and supervisory decisions.
- Review amendments and supporting explanations to verify whether each finding has been resolved. Track the related original report, amendments, and correspondence together.
- Maintain report and finding status, filing and review dates, correction deadlines, reviewer, and closure documentation. Provide accurate workload and unresolved-issue data to the Supervisor.
- Escalate repeated errors, nonresponse, suspected prohibited activity, or discrepancies requiring legal review. Recommend further review or corrective action and support authorized referrals and publication of finalized findings.
- Explain disclosure requirements and correction procedures to treasurers using established guidance. Help filers understand findings while preserving impartiality.
- Assist the Supervisor with technical guidance to county staff on disclosure report examination and documentation as assigned.
- Identify recurring errors and share examples with the Supervisor and Chief Learning Officer to improve treasurer training, county guidance, and job aids.
- Recommend improvements to audit checklists, standard correspondence, workpapers, and examination procedures based on recurring issues.
- Support assigned testing of modernized software for report validation, amendments, transaction accuracy, audit workflow, deadline tracking, and preservation of review history. Document defects for the project team.
- Complete assigned professional development and other duties supporting campaign finance examinations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
