Program Audit Liaison (Non-Financial)

Pantheon Data • Washington, DC

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Program Audit Liaison to serve as the client's front door for incoming audit and review requests. Audit requests arrive from the Defense Audit Office, the DoD Inspector General, the Naval Audit Service, the Government Accountability Office, and comparable review bodies. Each audit has its own scope, its own set of the right people to answer it, and its own clock. Without a single point of intake, requests scatter, deadlines surface late, and the same question can draw different answers from different offices. This role is the single point where those requests come in and the single place where their status is known. You receive the request, read it closely enough to understand what is being asked, route it to the right point of contact, and then stay with it through to closure. You hold the tracker, you run the recurring status, and you are the person who can answer "where does that one stand" without going to look. The judgment is the job. Some requests you own and close. Some need to be in front of a senior leader the same day for input, review, and submission. Knowing which is which, and being right about it, is what this role requires. The work is administrative and analytical rather than financial. You are not performing or auditing financial statements. You are making sure the right people see the right request in time to answer it well.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of ten (10) years of relevant professional experience; or a bachelor's degree in a field related to this work and a minimum of sixteen (16) years of relevant professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating responses to formal external taskers, data calls, audits, inspections, or congressional inquiries within a government or defense organization.
• Demonstrated ability to manage concurrent items on independent timelines without losing track of any of them.
• Experience exercising judgment on audits, including when to escalate, reassign, reject, and submit materials.
• Strong reading comprehension for formal correspondence: the ability to determine precisely what is being asked and what is not.
• Concise written communication suitable for senior military and civilian leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries and to get responses from people who do not report to you.
• Discretion in handling sensitive and controlled unclassified information.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Word, Excel, SharePoint, and Teams.
• Ability to work effectively remotely in cross-functional teams.
• Ability to meet deadlines and produce quality work.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience supporting audits or reviews conducted by the DoD Inspector General, the Naval Audit Service, the Government Accountability Office, or a service audit agency.
• Familiarity with the audit lifecycle: entrance conference, fieldwork, notice of findings and recommendations, draft report comment, exist conference, and corrective action tracking.
• Experience developing or tracking corrective action plans and milestones through closure.
• Working knowledge of NAVSEA, the Navy, and the Department of War.
• Experience using ETMS2.
• Experience supporting senior military or civilian executives in a high-tempo environment.
• Background in legislative or congressional analysis, policy implementation and review, or other formal inquiry response work.
• Experience building a tracking or case management process from scratch.
• Active Secret clearance is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Receive and route: Serve as the initial point of receipt for audit, review, and data call requests directed to the client organization.
• Analyze incoming request, identify what is being asked, and determine the offices and action officers who can answer.
• Route requests to the correct point of contact with a clear statement of what is needed and by when.
• Acknowledge receipt to the requesting body and establish the point of contact relationship early.
• Identify requests that overlap with earlier or ongoing responses and connect them, enabling consistent answers from the organization.
• Track to completion: Maintain a single authoritative tracker covering every open request: requesting body, scope, assigned office, interim milestones, due date, and current status.
• Manage multiple independent timelines simultaneously. Each request carries its own clock, and most don't align.
• Drive interim milestones rather than due dates. Build back from the deadline and check in against the plan, not the calendar.
• Follow each request through submission, follow-on questions, and formal closure.
• Produce recurring status reporting for senior leadership and be able to answer the status of any open item on request.
• Exercise judgment: Distinguish requests you can own and those that need senior attention, and act on that distinction without being told.
• Elevate early, with a recommendation attached.
• Bring the issue, the options, and your recommendation on sensitive and high-stake audits.
• Recognize sensitivity in an incoming request, such as scope creep, an unusual data ask, a line of inquiry with broader implications, and flag it to leadership before the response is built.
• Identify where a request is unclear or overly broad, and work with the requesting body to scope it before the organization spends effort on the wrong answer.
• Analyze and improve: Review draft responses for completeness, internal consistency, and responsiveness to what was asked.
• Read across requests over time to identify recurring themes, repeat findings, and areas drawing sustained attention.
• Build the intake process, tracker, templates, and operating rhythm that make a reliable process that will allow easy status updates.
• Maintain a retrievable record of prior responses so the organization can answer repeat questions in hours rather than weeks.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and benefits
• SmartBenefits through the Washington Metro Area Transportation Authority
• Tuition assistance may be available for continuing education expenses and certifications related to their position.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior