Audit Readiness Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

SOC 1 Audit Readiness Specialist

Location: Onsite – Alexandria, VA

We are seeking a highly organized professional to support SOC 1 Audit Readiness in compliance with DoD FIAR standards. This role is responsible for partner and customer onboarding, maintaining audit documentation, and ensuring continuous audit readiness and examination support. The position requires strong coordination, communication, and documentation skills, as well as experience with federal audit standards and reporting.

• Partner and Customer Onboarding: Manage end-to-end onboarding activities, including communications, scheduling, technical meetings, and documentation in support of SOC 1 audits.

• Audit Documentation: Develop and maintain Compliance Audit Support Plans and Assertion Packages to ensure audit readiness in alignment with DoD FIAR methodology.

• Data Provisioning & Reporting: Provide transaction data, system logs, and reports to support FIAR activities, SSAE 18 reports, financial audits, and mandated milestones for auditable financial statements.

• SSAE 18 Reporting: Produce SSAE 18 reports covering a nine-month period, issue bridge letters by early October, map Complementary User Entity Controls (CUECs), monitor sub-service organizations, and meet interim IPA assessment milestones.

• System Description & Control Mapping: Identify and link system inputs, edit checks, interfaces, and outputs to internal control objectives and Independent Public Accountant (IPA) test procedures in accordance with SSAE 18 standards.

• Audit Readiness & Corrective Actions: Strengthen internal controls, support OMB A-123, FISCAM, and RMF audits, respond to data calls, evaluate Notifications of Findings (NOFs), and recommend and track Corrective Action Plans (CAPs).

• Ongoing Coordination & Reporting: Prepare Assertion Packages, recommend control improvements, coordinate with the Product Manager, provide real-time compliance updates, and deliver weekly FIAR status reports.

• Examination Support: Provide materials and personnel during audits to deliver digital artifacts and support IPA assessments of control design and operating effectiveness in line with SSAE 18, GAO FISCAM, GAGAS, and FAM standards.

• Security & Training Compliance: Ensure personnel adhere to NIST and DMDC security policies and maintain documented training in FIAR principles, FISCAM auditing, SSAE 18 standards, and OUSD(C) FIAR Directorate requirements.