Ascension LLC is seeking a Federal Financial Reporting / Audit Readiness Analyst to support financial improvement, audit readiness, Agency Financial Report support, reconciliations, variance analysis, audit artifact management, and corrective action tracking for a federal micro non-CFO Act agency.

This role is designed for a detail-oriented federal financial management professional who understands the discipline required to support clean audit outcomes, timely financial reporting, accurate audit responses, and defensible documentation. The selected candidate will support DNFSB’s financial reporting and audit readiness mission by reviewing financial statements, helping manage Provided by Client requests and sample submissions, supporting AFR development, tracking Notices of Findings and Recommendations, and preparing clear status reporting for leadership.

The ideal candidate will bring strong federal accounting knowledge, comfort working with auditors and agency stakeholders, and the ability to organize complex audit and financial reporting information into accurate, complete, and submission-ready work products. This position is important to the customer because DNFSB’s Office of the Executive Director of Operations is responsible for maintaining clean audit opinions, ensuring financial reporting compliance, supporting audit remediation, and improving financial and operational processes. The RFQ specifically requires financial process improvement and audit support, including technical assistance with accounting transactions, internal and external reporting requirements, process remediation, internal control, ERM, and audit support activities.

Position Summary

The Federal Financial Reporting / Audit Readiness Analyst will perform a consolidated financial reporting and audit liaison function across several PWS task areas, including Task 1, Audit Support; Task 3, Financial Reporting and Analysis; and Task 6, Corrective Actions. The analyst will review quarterly financial statements and notes, support reconciliations, conduct variance analysis, assist with AFR planning and development, manage audit request tracking, maintain audit artifacts, and support CAP and NFR reporting.

This position requires a self-driven, highly organized professional who can work in a structured federal environment while also responding to shifting audit timelines, urgent documentation requests, and cross-functional stakeholder inputs. The candidate must be comfortable working with limited supervision, anticipating documentation gaps, identifying risks before they become late or incomplete submissions, and coordinating with process owners to ensure audit and financial reporting materials are accurate, complete, and traceable.

The role requires strong writing, analytical, reconciliation, and coordination skills. The candidate should be able to support financial statement reviews, compare financial statement line items to supporting documentation, identify unexplained variances, organize audit evidence, track PBC and sample requests, and prepare leadership-ready updates. The candidate should also be comfortable using Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, Teams, PowerPoint, and audit tracking or document repository tools.

Anticipated Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Review quarterly financial statements, including the Balance Sheet, Statement of Net Cost, Statement of Changes in Net Position, and Statement of Budgetary Resources, for completeness, accuracy, and consistency with OMB Circular A-136 and Treasury Financial Manual requirements.
• Validate financial statement line items, footnotes, reconciliations, and supporting documentation to identify rounding errors, footing issues, inconsistencies, or unsupported balances.
• Prepare memoranda for record documenting financial statement and note review results, including findings, open items, assumptions, and recommended follow-up actions.
• Review service provider reconciliations, including SF-133 to Statement of Budgetary Resources, Fund Balance with Treasury, GTAS-ATB to General Ledger, Budgetary to Proprietary reconciliations, and intragovernmental differences.
• Conduct financial statement variance analysis on a quarterly basis, including identifying material changes, researching source data, coordinating with responsible points of contact, and documenting clear explanations.
• Support the annual Agency Financial Report process by helping maintain the AFR schedule, draft outline, content tracker, working group materials, draft letters, MD&A inputs, management response materials, and final review packages.
• Coordinate with agency stakeholders, shared service providers, auditors, and leadership to obtain documentation needed for financial reporting, AFR development, and audit response activities.
• Track Provided by Client requests, audit samples, auditor follow-up questions, audit findings, NFRs, and corrective action status through a centralized tracker or audit response tool.
• Review audit responses for completeness, accuracy, consistency, and traceability before submission to auditors.
• Upload audit documentation, PBC responses, sample support, and related correspondence into the approved audit response tool or shared repository.
• Maintain an organized audit artifact repository that supports transparency, version control, and timely retrieval of documentation.
• Monitor audit request status and follow up with responsible parties to prevent late or incomplete PBC responses.
• Prepare recurring audit status updates, dashboard inputs, meeting materials, leadership briefings, and action item trackers.
• Document audit meetings, walkthroughs, entrance and exit conference discussions, decision points, action items, and open documentation requests.
• Support the drafting and review of audit communications, including management response letters, legal representation letters, NFR responses, and audit lessons learned materials.
• Track open internal and external audit findings, CAP milestones, overdue actions, and remediation evidence.
• Support corrective action plan development by documenting root causes, remediation steps, responsible offices, milestones, target completion dates, and validation evidence.
• Verify that corrective actions are supported by adequate documentation and that remediation evidence demonstrates completion and operating effectiveness.
• Develop clear reports, trackers, spreadsheets, dashboards, and briefing materials that allow leadership to understand financial reporting status, audit readiness risks, and CAP progress.
• Apply strong quality control practices to ensure deliverables are accurate, complete, professional, and submitted on time.