Director of Audit Support, Compliance & Risk Management

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

• We maintain building and resident safety and health
• We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
• We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.

Your Team

The newly created Office of Compliance & Risk Management (CRM) centralizes various critical compliance, oversight, and hearing functions from across the agency to ensure fairness, consistency, and equity in both our external and internal engagements. CRM collaborates with programs throughout HPD to ensure that the agency and its partners comply with Federal, State, and City laws, regulatory requirements, policies, and procedures. The Office includes the following Divisions and units:

• Adjudications
• Economic Opportunity & Regulatory Compliance
• Public Information
• Audit Support

The Audit Support team helps agency staff and leaders to manage and coordinate program audits from City, State, and Federal funding and oversight entities; creates and enforces policies and procedures to make the program audit process as efficient and streamlined as possible; and helps ensure that conditions discovered in the context of audits are addressed through revised program practice.

Your Impact

The Director of Audit Support will spearhead program audit work to help protect resources critical to HPD’s mission of ensuring that New Yorkers have safe, stable, affordable housing. They will do this by:

• Preparing for, strategizing, and responding to auditor requests and reports
• Supporting program staff in implementing audit recommendations
• Serving as an expert conduit between program staff, auditors, and other audit stakeholders

Your Role

Reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer and working closely with other staff throughout the agency, the Director will be charged with leading HPD’s management of, and coordination around, audits conducted by entities that fund and govern program activity and agency commitments. The Director is critical in ensuring the efficiency of audits, the accuracy of information transmitted to auditors, and the strength of relationships with and between auditing entities and HPD staff. Furthermore, this leadership role will have the opportunity to help build and drive the strategic growth of CRM, while learning about programs throughout the agency.

Your Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities include:

• Manage all aspects of externally-initiated program audits

o Field communication from auditing entities including coordination of audit conferences, responding to requests for program materials and documents, and managing responses to general inquiries about audit progress, findings, recommendations.
o Prepare materials for submission to auditors, including:
Support program staff with the collection, organization, and sharing of program materials and data, as well as provide context for these materials to auditors, as needed.
Work with subject matter experts to ensure program materials and data are responsive.
Discuss preliminary audit findings and summaries with auditors and program staff to clarify the agency’s positions, resolve misunderstandings about data, and promote collaborative practice between auditors and the agency.
o Assist in the preparation of agency responses to audit reports, in close collaboration with program staff

• Lead and coordinate processes to streamline program audit work

o Create and maintain materials to simplify and automate periodic audit and oversight requirements
o Foster relationships with key audit representatives from City, State, and Federal funding / oversight entities to promote positive and efficient workflows.

• Advise staff on the implementation of commitments to audit recommendations and/or work with agency staff to help alleviate roadblocks to implementation

Looking forward, CRM looks to expand its ability to:

• Conduct regular internal audits
• Advise programs on ways to strengthen policies and procedures to meet agency obligations
• Identify other opportunities for risk mitigation

Preferred skills

The ideal candidate will be inquisitive and solution-oriented, with demonstrated strengths in the following:

• Ability to thoughtfully investigate agency processes, draw conclusions, and develop responsive plans.
• Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive, complex projects related to business operations, ideally in a public or nonprofit agency, and to coordinate with various parties to help complete them.

- Ability to communicate clearly - describing findings and issues to various audiences, compellingly and persuasively, in email, memos, and presentations, as well as one-to-one in-person.

• Interest in improving government practice and devising solutions that support the advancement of affordable housing efforts through examination and strengthening of internal controls.

Please submit a cover letter as part of your application.

Only candidates in a permanent Admin Management Auditor or a comparable civil service title will be considered.

Note:

This position is eligible for remote work up to two days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program agreed to between the City and their specific union.

In addition, the Department of Housing Preservation & Development offers competitive salaries and the following benefits: Generous Pension Plans (The New York Employees' Retirement System); 401(k) and Roth 457(k) Retirement Savings Programs; U.S. Savings Bonds Flexible Spending Program; Health Benefits, Dental, Vision Coverage, Prescription Drug Program; Training and Professional Development; Opportunity for Scholarship; College Savings Program; Paid Holidays and Generous Annual Leave.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at StudentAid.gov/PSLF.

HPD's vision is to promote strength and diversity in our workforce and an inclusive and equitable work environment.

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