Director of Audit Strategy

City of New York • New York City, NY

16h

About The Position

The New York City Comptroller’s Office promotes the financial health, integrity, and effectiveness of City government. Its Audit Bureau conducts audits, independent assessments, and objective reviews of City operations and services to improve the City’s financial position, identify and mitigate risks, and support efficient, effective, and equitable services.

The Bureau of Audit seeks a highly qualified Director of Audit Strategy to serve as a senior-level advisor on complex audit, investigative, and administrative matters. Reporting directly to the Deputy Comptroller for Audit, the Director provides strategic guidance to Bureau leadership, coordinates with City agencies and representatives, and supports significant audit and investigative initiatives. The Director works across audit teams and with senior agency officials to help evaluate sensitive matters, develop and communicate information requests, and present significant audit findings and investigative matters clearly and accurately.

Requirements

• Admission to the New York State Bar.
• Four years of recent, full-time, responsible, relevant, and satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar.
• At least eighteen months of the required experience must involve supervision of other attorneys in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity, or the performance of highly complex and significant legal work.
• Must remain a Member of the New York State Bar in good standing throughout employment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a principal advisor to the Deputy Comptroller on complex, sensitive, and high-priority audit and investigative matters.
• Draft, review, and coordinate formal requests for information, executive summaries, investigative reports, correspondence, memoranda, and other high-level written materials.
• Assist audit teams in determining appropriate audit scopes, objectives, investigative approaches, and strategies for examining complex agency operations and programs.
• Coordinate with agency counsel offices and other representatives regarding confidentiality agreements, information-sharing protocols, document production, and requirements for communicating and handling sensitive information.
• Facilitate high-level communications between the Bureau of Audit, City agencies, legal counsel, and other governmental entities regarding audit activities, investigative matters, and requests for records.
• Review significant audit findings, investigative materials, and supporting documentation for clarity and consistency, ensuring reports highlight critical issues.
• Coordinate special projects and cross-functional initiatives involving multiple audit teams, agency representatives, and other stakeholders.
• Perform other high-level advisory and special assignments as directed by the Deputy Comptroller for Audit.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed