State Auditor IV

Opening Date: 10/23/2026. Closing Date: 11/5/2026 11:59:00 PM Type of Recruitment: Open Competitive. Salary: Yearly: $69,278.00/Min - $92,371.00/Mid - $115,464.00/Max. Pay Grade: S18 Employment Type: Actual Vacancy Employment Term: Regular Agency: Auditor of Accounts Location(s): 1128 S. Bradford Street: (1128 S. Bradford Street, Dover, DE, 19904) Contact Name: AOA Human Resources Contact Phone: 302-269-7223 Summary: The State Auditor IV combines advanced government auditing expertise with active, day-to-day leadership to manage and develop a high-performing audit team. Serving as a critical first-line manager, this position reports directly to the senior-level Administrative Auditor, helping to ensure public agencies run efficiently, comply with laws, and safeguard resources.

You will oversee the daily activities of State Auditor I–III personnel, steering team workflows across diverse engagement types, including Performance Audits, Financial Statement Audits, Examinations, Agreed-Upon Procedures (AUPs), Inspections, Investigations, and Special Reports. You will leverage a proven track record of supervising, managing, and mentoring professional staff to ensure team accountability, talent development, and high-quality outputs. Operational excellence is driven through your hands-on management of performance reviews, proactive coaching, and everyday administrative reviews and approvals.

You will direct both in-house projects and external CPA engagements, utilizing specialized audit software such as CCH ProSystem fx Engagement, Data Snipper, and ACL and the suite of Microsoft software products. Acting as a critical gatekeeper for quality and compliance, you are responsible for ensuring strict compliance across your engagement portfolio by applying GAO Yellow Book standards, AICPA Attestation Standards, and CIGIE Quality Standards for Investigations (QSI), alongside ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners) principles. In doing so, you will enforce alignment with the Office's audit methodology and associated policies and procedures.

Ultimately, you will champion the fight against fraud, waste, and abuse by evaluating internal controls as part of internal engagements, monitoring CPA contractor execution of contract engagements, and delivering high-impact findings that optimize state government operations.

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