Who We Are & What We Do

Who We Are

The Office of the City Auditor is an independent Charter Office reporting to the Audit Committee of the City Commission. The City Auditor is one of six Charter Officers who report to the City Commission.

Our office provides audit, advisory, and investigative services that are conducted in accordance with the Institute of Internal Auditors Professional Practices Framework (the “red book”) and Government Auditing Standards published by the United States Government Accountability Office (the “yellow book”). Our professional guidance also includes ISACA IT Audit Framework, AICPA Generally Accepted Auditing Standards, ACFE Fraud Examiners Manual and Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (the "green book").

Our team consists of professional internal auditors with various academic degrees, professional expertise, and professional certifications. We are required by our professional standards to continually improve our proficiency, effectiveness, and quality of services while maintaining active status of any credentials we may hold.

What We Do

Our Internal Auditors consider how management strategies and objectives align with the City's mission and values. We identify opportunities to make significant improvements to the City's governance, risk management, and control processes.  We perform:

• Audit Engagements - operational, financial, information technology, compliance and other types of audit engagements that evaluate current and emerging key risks and design and effectiveness of controls to mitigate those risks.
  
  
• Consultations - advisory services that may include independent and objective evaluation of risks and models, evaluation of system pre-implementation risks, and evaluation of operational risk management processes. 
  
  
• Management Requests - limited scope management special requests which may be audit or advisory services that are not included in the audit plan. 
  
  
• Audit Issue Follow Up - remediation and closure of audit issues. Internal Auditors obtain sufficient evidence to validate and management's action plan has been implemented and is sustainable. 
  
  
• Investigations - Our office manages the City's anonymous fraud hotline and conducts occupational fraud investigations.