Description
Position Title: Grant Audit Lead
Reports to: Senior Advisor, Grant Management and Compliance
Location: Employees in this role can work from our Boston, MA office, remotely within the U.S. or hybrid of these two options, with up to 15% international travel
Employment Type: Full time
Candidates must have authorization to work in the U.S. Please note that we are not able to sponsor U.S. work authorization for this role.
Position Overview:
Partners In Health (PIH) is looking for a Grant Audit Lead to oversee the critical processes of preparing for and responding to donor audits of PIH’s restricted awards, including leading PIH’s response to its annual U.S. Government Single Audit. Reporting to the Senior Advisor, Grant Management and Compliance, the Grant Audit Lead will develop and serve as subject matter expert for a program of assessing and strengthening PIH grant audit preparation across all PIH sites worldwide, including periodic review of grant-related internal controls and policies and procedures. Given the global scope of this role, fluency in Spanish or French would be a plus. This role will also support initiatives of the PIH U.S. Coordination Site Grant Compliance Group to develop and strengthen PIH policies and procedures in support of grant compliance across all PIH sites, and will inform and support the response to and reporting of misconduct allegations.
The Grant Audit Lead will be a member of PIH’s U.S. Coordination Site Grant Management and Compliance (GMC) team.
Responsibilities:
Grant Audit Preparation and Guidance (40%)
- Lead development of and conduct project- and site-specific grant compliance risk assessments of PIH teams and PIH subrecipients to highlight potential internal control and other grant compliance or audit response gaps; inform and manage process development and staff training priorities in service to these areas across all PIH sites worldwide.
- Lead development of tools and systems and implement trainings to address identified gaps and to advance grant audit preparedness across PIH and its subrecipients.
- Monitor grant compliance where risks are identified, including through periodic transaction testing or procedure review.
- Provide regular updates on audit status and distill key audit outcomes to inform PIH leaders and GMC team priorities.
- Maintain organization-wide grant audit tracker listing timing, status and results of all active, expected, and completed grant audits.
PIH Single Audit (20%)
- Serve as primary PIH contact for the annual U.S. Government Single Audit, and regularly update PIH finance leaders on the status of the Single Audit.
- Lead the development of and adherence to a work plan, identifying responsible staff and timeframes for each activity, for the PIH cross-site Single Audit each year, from initial determination, review and selection of major programs to sign off on the final audit report and the implementation of any corrective actions.
- Lead coordination across PIH global finance and grant management staff to manage the compilation, thorough review, and prompt delivery of accurate and complete schedules of expenditures, general ledgers, award agreements, supporting documentation, and any other information required by the auditor in connection with the Single Audit.
- Acquire a detailed understanding of relevant PIH compliance policies and processes and advocate for the efficacy of those processes in response to auditor concerns, including by writing and submitting clear and concise audit memos and thorough review of and written response to a draft Single Audit report.
- Initiate, support,
- Serve as primary PIH contact for the annual U.S. Government Single Audit, and regularly update PIH finance leaders on the status of the Single Audit.