
SUPERVISORY AUDITOR (FAO Supervisor)
Van Nuys, CAFull-time$124–161K/yrPosted 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Supervisory Auditor leads a major segment of an audit program in a branch or resident office, supervising professional auditors and coordinating audit work. The role includes reviewing audit programs, work papers, assignment progress, and draft reports, and ensuring appropriate use of quantitative methods and computerized auditing techniques. The supervisor also communicates DCAA audit services and maintains liaison with acquisition officials.
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Summary
Reemployed annuitant: This vacancy does not meet the criteria for appointment of annuitants.
Duties
- Serves as the Supervisory Auditor in a branch or resident office responsible for the supervision, conduct, and accomplishment of a segment of the audit program. Leads a major segment of the total audit program plan.
- Serves as a team leader and member of a participative work team (PWT) consisting of professional auditors. Establishes annual goals complementary to region/agency goals and objectives.
- Reviews audit programs, working papers, progress on the audit assignment, and draft audit reports. Ensures that quantitative methods and computerized auditing techniques are being utilized as appropriate in the audit process.
- Communicates DCAA audit services and maintains audit liaison with acquisition officials.
Requirements
Must be a U.S. Citizen as verified through E-Verify Program. Drug Testing: This is a drug testing designated position. You must pass a drug test before your assignment to this position and you will be subject to random drug testing subsequent to your assignment. Background Investigation: All selectees will be subject to a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI). You must be able to obtain and maintain security clearance eligibility at the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) level. You will be subject to a random counterintelligence scope polygraph. Qualifications
You may qualify for consideration if meeting time-in grade, specialized experience, education requirement, 90 days after competitive appointment requirement, and all other qualification requirements within 30 calendar days after the closing date of the announcement, unless otherwise indicated on the announcement. You must meet the minimum qualification requirements as stated in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Operating Manual, Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/Standards/group-stds/gs-prof.asp. Specialized Experience: Specialized Experience: In addition to meeting the basic requirements, you must have one year of specialized experience at the GS-12 or equivalent level. Specialized experience must be documented in your resume. Specialized experience is defined as: Serving as a lead or senior auditor on an audit team while independently performing a variety of difficult and complex audit assignments OR Identifying and preparing comprehensive risk assessments to develop or modify audit programs and plans, ensuring all audit steps are strictly aligned with identified risks OR Conducting detailed testing and examination of accounting systems, records, and internal controls while meeting with auditees to explain audit purposes and discuss findings OR Preparing organized, indexed, and referenced audit work papers and making initial audit determinations to identify deficiencies or noncompliance with accounting and auditing principles. Definition of Well Qualified: Independently perform complex audit work, including planning and managing audit assignments, preparing and reviewing audit reports, effectively communicating audit information, providing leadership, and applying applicable auditing standards, policies, and principles. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills, and can provide valuable training and experience that translates to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education
Substitution of Education for Specialized Experience: There is no substitution of education for experience at this grade level. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements. You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying or prior to appointment as outlined above. Qualifying education from colleges and universities in foreign countries must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educated in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree. You must provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation upon request. Failure to provide such documentation when requested will result in lost consideration. For more information regarding evaluation of foreign education for federal employment, please visit the U.S. Department of Education How You Will Be Evaluated
Your application will initially be reviewed to determine whether you meet the minimum eligibility and qualifications requirements. If you are qualified, you will then receive a numeric score based on the degree to which your background matches the knowledge, skills and abilities for the position listed below. If a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications, you will be assigned a rating commensurate with your background. Your final score will be used to determine if you are among the best qualified candidates. Competencies: Audit Planning and Management Audit Reporting Communication Leadership Concepts, Policies, and Principles of Audit Criminal History Inquiries- If you apply to this position and are selected, we will not ask about your criminal history before you receive a conditional job offer. If you believe you were asked about your criminal history improperly, contact the agency @ [email protected] Other Information
DCAA has a comprehensive benefits package that includes retirement, social security and thrift savings; health, life and long term care insurance; paid vacation, sick leave and holidays. DCAA employees enjoy our business-casual dress code, flexible work schedules, and transit subsidies. Financial Disclosure: Completion of an Office of Government Ethics (OGE) confidential financial disclosure form 450 is required for this position. Selective Service: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see www.sss.gov). Initial Probationary Period: Accepting this position, you may be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. You will be required to serve a supervisory/managerial probationary period of 1 year unless one has previously been completed. Telework: This position may be eligible for situational telework. Telework approval will be determined by your immediate supervisor or manager following the agency's telework policy and guidance. If participating in the telework program, you will be required to sign a telework agreement detailing agency telework policy requirements, working conditions, and expectations for the position. PCS: Relocation expenses reimbursed - Yes - You may qualify for reimbursement of relocation expenses in accordance with agency policy. Relocation expenses will be offered based on agency staffing needs and budgetary availability. Additional Vacancies: This announcement may be used to fill additional positions within 120 days of the certificate issuance date. Performance Appraisal: If you are a current Federal employee, you must be rated fully successful or higher on your current performance rating to be eligible for promotion. You may be asked to provide a copy of your performance appraisal during the evaluation and selection process. Financial Management (FM) Certification Program: As a condition of employment, the selectee must meet the requirements of the DoD FM Certification Program. The FM Certification Program is a course-based program consisting of three certification levels. Level 2 certification must normally be completed within two years of the selectee's employment start date Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Certification Program: As a condition of employment, the selectee must meet the requirements of the DAWIA Certification Program. The selectee must obtain the required certification within the specified grace period for their applicable certification level, except that designated Key Leadership Positions at the GS-14/15 levels require certification completion at the time of assignment. This position is not covered by a bargaining unit. All applicants are encouraged to apply electronically. If you are unable to apply on-line, you may contact 317-212-0454 for assistance.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,049 open Auditor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$124–161K/yr
- California median$92–155K/yr36 salary ranges
- US median$86–116K/yr564 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $143K, is 12% above the California median midpoint ($127K) — in the middle half of Auditor salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 51 open Auditor jobs in California and 1,049 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- EY9 open
- San Bernardino County, CA4 open
- Defense Contract Audit Agency (this employer)3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Auditor postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 792 postings).
- Education
- 333 of the 1,049 open Auditor jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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