Sample Federal Style Resume. Pat A. Candidate

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1 Pat A. Candidate Address City, State Zip code Home Phone: (123) ; Work Phone: (123) SSN: U.S. Citizenship: Yes Highest Federal Grade Level: GS-11 Veterans Preference: N/A OBJECTIVE: Auditor General Accounting Office (GAO) PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Highly proficient Auditor with a track record of over $50 million in savings over a 5-year period by conducting independent and challenging work assignments on missioncritical projects for the Defense Contract Audit Agency and the State Department s Office of Inspector General. Outstanding ability to lead and provide guidance on complex, risk-based financial and performance audits, determine scope of investigation, and generate opinions regarding cost savings to the Federal government. Major findings included: double billing; weak internal controls; authority abuse; billing fraud; unrealistic cost proposals; contract administration violation matters; and cost accounting standards (CAS) non-compliance. Keep abreast of new guidance in law, regulation, government and industry accounting standards through formal training in order to determine the impact on Agency operations and to propose changes to agency policies and procedures. Certified Public Accountant ~Top Secret Clearance (Active) ~ Fluent in Arabic Key Competencies: Working Knowledge of: Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR/DRAFS/DOSAR); Yellow Book; Cost Accounting Standards (CAS); and Office of Management & Budget (OMB) Circulars. Working Knowledge of Generally Accepted: Accounting Principles (GAAP); Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS); and Auditing Standards (GAAS). Statement on Auditing Standards. Code of Professional Conduct. Extensive Knowledge of: Research Design, Data Collection & Analysis; and Government Contractors Policies & Programs Evaluation. Oral & Written Presentations and Briefings. WORK EXPERIENCE: Auditor (GS ) 06/2006-Present State Department, Office of Inspector General (OIG) Salary: $68,922 Rosslyn, Virginia Supervisor: John Doe (555) Key player and resource for the planning and execution of high visibility audit programs valued at $500 million for Department of State s internal bureaus and external entities. Conduct objective and systematic performance audits that: promote integrity, efficiency, effectiveness, and economy; prevent and detect waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement; identify vulnerabilities and recommend constructive solutions; offer expert assistance; and communicate timely, useful information that facilitates decision-making and achieves measurable gains. Major Duties: Serve as Audit Team Leader for a staff of 5 and as an independent auditor. Conduct all phases of audit, including: Formal Notification; Entrance Conference; Field Work; Exit Conference; Audit Report; and Compliance. Design audit process to achieve multiple audit steps, which would result in streamlined work processes. Prepared by Federal Research Service: ~ frs@fedjobs.com ~

2 Initiate audit proposals through word-of-mouth, news reports, hotline tips, and congressional requests. Determine the nature, timing and extent of the work needed by planning and determining the scope of work. Complete economy and efficiency audits and examine procurement practices, ensuring no duplication of effort or idleness. Collect information from documents, interviews, contracts, reports, briefings, and databases and analyze data to detect deficient controls, waste, fraud, and non-compliance with contractual agreements, laws, regulations, and management policies. Brief senior management on the results and status of the audits at stakeholders meetings. Prepare audit draft that deliver audit results to senior management, including the findings (condition, criteria, cause, effect, and recommendations) for review and comments. Deliver factual, accurate, informative and reliable oral and written briefing to senior level management and contractors. Develop and write audit finding and recommendations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Recommend to the audited agency to revise internal policy by: reviewing company policies and evaluating them against regulations and best practice; conducting gap analysis and providing recommendations in light of existing and anticipated issues; and assisting in the development of and compliance with a full range of issues. Key Accomplishments: Served as mediator during confrontational/hostile situations concerning disagreements with audit finding, where I ve managed situations in-house that could have resulted in legal proceedings. My ability to make recommendations and present material in a way that is completely understood, above all else, is what makes my skills valuable. Discovered unacceptable indirect cost and fee authorization under Time and Material (T&M) Contracts. Conducted an independent Equitable Adjustment Audit where contractor was requesting additional funds for increased level of effort (LOE). Conducted detailed analyses of the statement of work (SOW) and found that the contractor s claim did not meet the contractual provision for equitable adjustments. Selected by upper management to be an independent eye to review a previously performed audit opinion that dealt with OMB Circular A-110. Delivered a timely write up to the Audit Manager delineating an audit opinion that focused on questionable audit reporting. My briefing was sustained, and the Audit Manager stated: Although Emma was working at the GS-11 level, her work was at the level of a GS-13. Received two special task awards. Volunteered to visit college campuses to recruit accounting students to join the OIG. Appointed as member of interviewing panel responsible for identifying and evaluating students potential as OIG prospect employees. Volunteered to deliver a fraud presentation to a 70 member audience. Educated presentation attendees in the auditor s role under SAS 99 and Chapter 4 of the Yellow book regarding fraud during the planning and execution of an audit. Auditor (GS ) 05/ /2006 Defense Contract Audit Agency Salary: $63,229 Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas Supervisor: John Doe (555) Served as Resident Auditor conducting all phases of 35+ financial and self-initiated audits for five Fortune 500 companies with revenue from $250 million to $18 billion. Defined audit scope in collaboration with the Procuring Contracting Officer in order to monitor and promote compliance with, US Code, GAGAS, and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) standards, and contractual provision. Major Duties:

3 Performed risk-based audit planning using: fraud risk indicators; preliminary analytical testing; auditee financial condition and stability; three year financial statement and annual reports; dollar materiality and significant elements; internal control status; government audit reports; organizational structure; and accounting system complexity. Developed audit programs with comprehensive audit scope and well-defined steps, carried out all technical and non-technical phases of the audit assignment, and recommend alternative solutions to potential audit problems. Integrated and trained the activities of junior auditors, new hires, and intra-agency personnel engaged in performing audits, filing, recording, compiling, and transmitting financial records. Trained junior and senior staff in utilizing government and Microsoft software technology, including: APPS, ICRS, Excel, and PowerPoint. Briefed senior management on the results of audits and recommendation, and Procuring Officer and the contractor s executives about the work results. Prepared draft and final reports that contained the audit results and submitted to the Procuring Officer for review and comments. Completed final audit report and followed up to ensure contractor s complied with findings. Key Accomplishments: Received 3 Special Act Awards for exceptional work ethics and production, resulting in over $50 million in cost savings to the federal government. Advanced toward a high level of competency in rendering reliable opinions regarding AICPA and Yellow Book standards as a subject matter expert. Keen ability to perform rigorous and difficult audits within complex organizational structures (i.e. parent companies, subsidiaries, mergers, and acquisitions) in order to uncover indirect costs that travel from the parent company to the business unit, resulting in double billings and over-billings. Built a culture that fosters open communication, encourages learning, generates and sustains trust, and elevates the importance and dignity of the work. Initiated and volunteered to conduct briefing and one-on-one guidance to audit teams on current audit regulations and laws; created handouts; and served as subject matter expertise on GAAS/GAGAS, IRC, and OMB standards. Performed policy existence and compliance with CAS 411 on a major government contractor. Identified and studied company policies that addressed material acquisition, inventory, handling, and costing to establish policies co-relation and interaction, and compared the actual policies against CAS411 requirements. Tested the company s actual practice compliance with its policies and noted non-compliance with the inventory identification and segregation. Recommendation was to revise the inventory receiving policies to be aligned with CAS 411 requirements. Audits completed: Incurred Cost; Control Environment & Overall Accounting Controls; Indirect & Other ODC Cost Controls; Cost Element Review; Defective Pricing Universe Matrix; Evaluation of Cost Realism Price Proposals; Post Award Audits; Non-compliance with Disclosed or Established Practices Reports (CAS/FAR); CAS 411, 416 & 420; CAS Impact Proposal Evaluations; Agreed Upon Procedures; Adequacy/Compliance/Revision of Disclosure Statement; Contract Performance Reports; Cost/Schedule Status Reports; and Contracts Audit Closing. Accountant 05/ /2003 E.E. Smith, CPA Salary: $ Dallas, Texas Supervisor: Self-Employed Independently evaluated financial and tax data processing application, and addressed and resolved problems that dealt with the overall financial integrity of a variety of small businesses. Assessed balance sheets, payroll accounts, tax accounts and payments, operating income and expense accounts, and financial documentation to confirm organizations assets and liabilities. Reviewed investment portfolios, capital, earnings, and specific troubled accounts. EDUCATION:

4 University of Texas, Dallas, TX; 12/2001 Degree: Masters of Science; Major: Accounting GPA: 3.8 out of 4.0 Relevant Coursework: Delivered case studies briefing throughout graduate school with focus on financial statement analysis of: Telecom Crash, White Collar Fraud and Business Ethics, and Tax Evasion. Designed research studies and data collection techniques that included a marketing research study to determine the success of a computer company s summer camp. Identified area of focus; queried databases; prepared the universe; designed a close-ended questionnaire; conducted interviews; and grouped and analyzed questionnaire results. Developed a promotion campaign that resulted in a 20% market increase and the award of a faculty computer lab fiveyear purchase and maintenance contract. Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; May/1990 Degree: Bachelors of Business Administration; Major: Marketing TRAINING & CERTIFICATION: Auditor CPE Training (450+ hours): 01/2008 Yellow Book Revision; State Department 12/2007 Statistical Sampling and Data Analysis; State Department 11/2007 Grants and Federal Funding; State Department 07/2007 Effective Report Writing; USDA Graduate School 05/2007 Procurement Fraud and Yellow Book Revision; GAO 04/2007 How to Identify and Manage High-Risk Grantees and Subgrantees 03/2007 Cost Sharing and Matching for Grants; State Department 12/2006 Overview of Government Contracts; State Department 11/2006 Team Mate User Training Course; Price WaterHouse 09/2006 Effective Team Audits; State Department/OIG 05/2006 Cost Accounting Standards; DCAA 09/2005 Statistical Sampling; DCAA 12/2004 Agreed Upon Procedures Training 11/2004 Internal Control Systems: Planning; DCAI/CMTL 05/2004 Intermediate Contract Auditing; DCAI 05/2004 Fraud Indicators; DCAA - Arlington Branch Office 03/2004 Work Paper Documentation; DCAA - Arlington Branch Office 03/2004 Contractor Financial Capability Audits; DCAA 01/2004 APPS 5.0 Seminar; Central 12/2003 Technical Indoctrination; DCAA 11/2003 CAS , , 414, & 419 ; DCAA 11/2003 CAS-Administration and Coverage; DCAA 11/2003 Cost Principles FAR Subpart 31.2; DCAA 10/2003 Risk and Materiality Assessment; DCAA 10/2003 Briefing Contracts; DCAA 10/2003 Contract Closeout Procedures; DCAA 10/2003 Orientation to DCAA Audits; DCAA 10/2003 Audit Planning and Performance Paperless Audit Systems (APPS); DCAA 10/2003 Orientation to Contract Auditing Procedures; DCAA 07/2003 CASB Disclosure Statements; DCAA 06/2003 Orientation to Federal Procurement Regulations; DCAA 05/2003 Orientation to DCAA; DCAA

5 Computer Training: 10/2005 Advance SAP Training; Raytheon Facility, Texas 03/2004 Basic Flowcharting; DCAI/CMTL 01/2004 IRIMS Training FY04; DCAA Central Region Miscellaneous Training: 11/2007 Communicate to Influence; Decker Group 09/2005 A1 Level 1 Awareness Training; Richardson Branch Office 09/2005 FY2005 Annual Information Assurance Awareness; DCAA 11/ Annual Ethics Training Online; DoD Standards of Conduct 09/2004 Antiterrorism Level I Training; DCAA 08/2004 Annual Information Assurance Awareness Training; DCAA 06/2003 PWT Basics; DCAI HONORS & AWARDS: Special Task Award (2); State Department Special Act Award (3); DCAA Central Region MEMBERSHIPS: Accounting Honor Society; Member Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants; Member LANGUAGE SKILLS: Arabic: Fluent (Spoken, Written, Read) COMPUTER SKILLS: Applications: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook); Microsoft Project Operating Systems: Microsoft 95, 98, 2000, XP Accounting/Auditing Systems: TeamMate; Audit Planning and Performance Paperless Systems (APPS); EZ Quant; Peachtree; Internal Control Risk System (ICRS); Internal Reporting Metrics Information System (IRMIS); QuickBooks Internet: Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape SELF-CERTIFICATION: I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, all of the information on and attached to this resume is true, correct, complete and made in good faith. I understand that false or fraudulent information on or attached to this resume may be grounds for not hiring me or for firing me after I begin work, and may be punishable by fine or imprisonment. I understand that any information I give may be investigated. Signature: Date signed: