Audit Specialist

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

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Who we are supporting

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO’s leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

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The program 

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed, cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO, NCIA, NSPA, NATO HQ, territorial Host Nations, and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy, political guidance, and other policy documents supporting NATO’s strategic objectives.

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Role ID: ACT-CDMS-26-02-B-22

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Conducts compliance and integrity audits, inspections, reviews, and audit tests in accordance with international auditing standards, and ACT audit policies and procedures. Reviews protocols and advises ACT leadership on regulations and policies.
• Assess and evaluate ACT’s compliance with applicable laws and regulations. This involves conducting detailed reviews of travel activities (travel plans, travel approvals, travel claims, etc.).
• Analyze, consolidate, and update the ACT audit universe (requires significant spreadsheet analysis) to reflect the actual activities undertaken, in Travel, Finance, programmes of work, and Human Resources. Reconciliation and joining of branch information and plans will be necessary to provide organizational overview, branch review, and deep dive audits and inspections where necessary.
• Determine the effectiveness of management response to previous audit recommendations, internal control risk and compliance with applicable NATO and ACT financial policies. Support senior leadership in their daily decision-making relating to emerging travel non-compliance and ACT’s implementation of NATO’s and ACT’s anti-fraud and corruption strategies and directives.
• Respond to potentially serious or irregular compliance issues and violations, and consults with management on appropriate responses.
• Support to other audit activities approved in ACT’s annual Risk Based Audit Plan covering all aspects of the ACT audit universe.
• Analyze internal audit processes and update ACT internal audit manuals to adapt to agile auditing of areas that rapidly changes within the yearly planning cycle.
• Develop and conduct audit risk assessment of ACT resource management activities to continue risk-based auditing and identify risk areas. When needed, update internal audit methodology to reflect the right risk assessments and audit universe.
• Review the execution, implementation, status and effectiveness of ACT’s travel management and risk management process; report on the status and effectiveness of risk registers and advise on all governance issues arising from these reviews.
• To undertake ad-hoc analyses and studies if relevant as tasked by the Chief of Staff and ACT Head of Internal Audit.

Essential Skills and Experience

• 6 or more years of experience performing compliance, integrity, and/or forensic auditing.
• 4 or more years of experience in travel management (and associated Internal Controls) and/or auditing travel management (planning, requisitions, claim liquidation, etc.) in a large organization.
• Experience in retrieving, compiling, structuring, statistical and non-statistical sampling, and analyzing large data sets of financial and travel information.
• Experience with Accounting software and Microsoft office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications.
• Hold a recognized professional fraud examiner (CFE) and/or professional accounting (CPA, CMA, etc.) qualification.
• Proven forensic accounting or forensic investigation experience.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly and persuasively, both orally and in writing to senior management (specialist and non-specialist audiences).
• Without conflicts of interest with any ACT staff.

Education

• University Degree in accounting, finance, business administration or related discipline and 4 years function related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 5 years post related and 4 years function related experience.

Language Proficiency

• Advanced Proficiency in English

Working Location

• Norfolk, VA, USA

Working Policy

• On-Site

Contract Duration

• June 2026 – December 2030

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance