Program Analyst

Job Title

Incumbent responsible for planning and executing internal reviews of Navy MWR, CYP, CMWR, and other NAF activities. The incumbent is assigned difficult and complex portions of NAF financial reviews.

This involves assessing compliance with DoW, DoN and OPNAV, and CNIC regulations, policies and procedures; accomplishment of goals, efficiency and economy of management; utilization of resources; budget formulation and execution; procurement acquisition and disposition of property; inventory requirements, industrially funded operations; reliability of financial statements; automatic data processing systems; assessing internal accounting controls; verifying financial statement account balances; and evaluating the presentation of financial statements.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Creates ideas for new internal review program inspection areas and develops oversight program proposals for use by supervisor.
• Assists in preparing an annual schedule, program guide, and in conducting the field survey to determine functional areas or subjects to be reviewed and inspected.
• Develops necessary audit steps to meet internal review objectives of significant areas of NAF operations.
• Performs independent on-site field work necessary to complete requirements of the internal review plan or related assignments.
• Informs supervisor when review approaches should be modified to meet objectives or when situations encountered warrant revisions of the internal review program.
• Assists in identifying inspection approaches in specific functional areas, developing statistical sampling plans, extracting and sorting sample cases to expedite work.
• Writes comprehensive evaluations of NAF operations relevant to internal review objectives in the format of complete findings and recommendations.
• Prepares comprehensive supporting documentation cross-referenced to reports and results.
• Prepares reports on internal controls and reports on compliance with policies and regulations relevant to internal review objectives in the format required. Comprehensive supporting documentation is cross referenced to the internal review program, adjustments to financial records, reports on internal controls and compliance with policies and regulations.
• Exercises independent judgment on evaluating management controls. Presents ideas, facts, conclusions and recommendations clearly, concisely and logically, both orally and in writing.
• Writes portions of internal review reports and supervises completions of the entire report when serving in a team lead capacity.
• Prepares working papers, setting forth information relative to the extent of examination. Provides full support for findings. Conducts in-depth reviews to obtain documentary, analytical, or observable evidence for conclusions and findings.
• Receives and reviews work papers and working paper summaries in support of findings, requests additional information, deals with technical questions and resolves problems with personnel of NAF activities and organizations and other members of the internal review team.
• Documents results of work paper reviews, including providing written guidance to team members relative to additional information needed to adequately substantiate reportable findings.
• Discusses findings and recommendations with management personnel to reconcile differences and to work out satisfactory solutions to various problems.
• Participates in entrance and exit conferences with local command representatives to explain objectives and conclusions. Considers and resolves issues raised by command representatives on factual matters to ensure balanced and accurate presentation of reported results.
• Identifies and develops internal review finding issues that have significant monetary or program-wide impact on NAF programs, activities and functions. Identifies material accounting and internal control issues that result in adjustment or footnotes to financial statements.
• Recommends completion dates for internal review program tasks and executes work to meet the scheduled completion dates.
• Enables internal review team cooperation by assisting others when necessary and sharing information and ideas.
• Responds positively to direction from superiors.
• Provides guidance to and directs the efforts of local accounting, command evaluation and audit staff in accomplishing assignments.
• Maintains security and accountability of Privacy Act and other information.
• Maintains professional proficiency in accordance with GAO auditing standards.