Assistant State Auditor 4 - Internal Only

Team Tri-Cities is one of 17 local audit teams within the Office of the Washington State Auditor and is responsible for conducting audits primarily in Benton, Columbia, Franklin, and Walla Walla Counties.

We also conduct some audits in Adams and Grant Counties. Team Tri-Cities has an office in Kennewick and a sub-office in Walla Walla. We perform about 120 audits on an annual basis.

Our audits include accountability, financial and federal grant compliance audits and cover a wide variety of entities such as cities, counties, public housing authorities, different types of districts such as schools, fire, conservation, irrigation, hospital, health, library, public transportation, utility, ports, public facilities, and other miscellaneous entity types.

Team Tri-Cities seeks to be a partner with our audit clients through clear communication and mutual respect in promoting accountability, accurate reporting, and transparency to best serve our communities and citizens. Together, we want to make a difference.

Within the agency, Team Tri-Cities promotes the Office’s mission and values, and a professional, respectful, and constructive work environment.

We value our team members and support them in their growth and development through a customized training program that fits their needs to help them be successful and obtain audit skills.

Our training program includes internal and external educational training opportunities, online resources, one on one in person training and remote guidance.

Our main goal is to work in the environment that is best suited for our individual team members and audit clients that offers the most support while promoting efficiency throughout the audit process.

We want to empower our team members to perform their best

Diversity and inclusion are important to us.

We appreciate the value and strengths that each team member brings to our team and consistently seek feedback from all team members to continuously improve any aspect of our team processes and environment.

We are passionate about what we do, and our team culture revolves around being supportive, team-oriented, accountable, collaborative, and flexible.

Under minimal supervision, serves as the Auditor-In-Charge of the largest and/or most complex financial or compliance audits of local and/or state government entities.

Assumes full responsibility for the planning, conducting, and documentation of risk-based audits.

Leads other staff assigned to the audit, makes work assignments, reviews workpapers, and provides mentoring and coaching to develop the skills of assigned audit staff.

Ensures assigned audits are planned and performed under comprehensive national performance standards including:

- Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS)

- Generally Accepted Governmental Auditing Standards (GAGAS),

- the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-133

- Audits of State and Local Government, and SAO Audit Policies

- Audits must be of a quality to pass internal Quality Control Reviews, and National Peer Review.