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INVESTIGATIVE AUDITOR II EXAMINATION
Office of the Attorney General - California Department of Justice
Final Filing Date: January 25, 2011. OPEN – STATEWIDE
THE POSITION:
Employees in the Investigative Auditor II class work under close direction of a supervisor or another lead auditor. Typically, incumbents are responsible for performing the more simple and routine investigative audits of a single business or organization with very few financial accounts and little reconstruction of financial records. Incumbents may also be responsible for either analyzing simple or smaller financial statements, conducting preliminary assessments to determine if an organization is within compliance of specific legal codes and laws governing the program areas audited, or may assist other auditors in performing the more routine duties of a larger field audit.
Positions exist in the following DOJ locations: Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Riverside, West Covina, San Diego, and Burbank.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Experience applicable to one of the following patterns may be combined on a proportional basis with experience applicable to the other patterns to meet the total experience requirements.
Either I
Experience: One year of experience in the California state service performing professional auditing duties in a class equivalent in level to that of Auditor I. (Applicants meeting the educational requirements who have completed six months of service performing professional auditing duties as an Auditor I will be admitted to the examination, but must satisfactorily complete one year of this experience before they can be considered eligible for appointment.)
Or II
Experience: Two years of investigative auditing experience equivalent in responsibility to that involved in performing less difficult professional investigative audits, with responsibility for laying out audit programs and determining the scope of work performed. (Bookkeeping, clerical, accounting, preauditing, procedure checking, and system maintenance experience is not acceptable.)
And, Education: Either
1. Equivalent to graduation from college, with specialization in accounting; or
2. Completion of a prescribed professional accounting curriculum given by a residence or correspondence school of accounting including courses in elementary and advanced accounting, auditing, cost accounting, and business law; or
3. Completion of the equivalent of 19 semester hrs. of course work, including 16 semester hrs. of professional accounting courses given by a collegiate-grade residence institution including courses in elementary and advanced accounting, auditing and cost accounting and three semester hours of business law. (Evidence of successful completion of the curriculum and the prescribed courses must be presented before appointment can be completed.)
Professional accounting curriculum means accounting courses and not those electives that accounting students choose in addition to required courses they are working to obtain a certificate: AA, or BA Degree in Accounting.
SALARY RANGE:
$3841 - $4903, per month plus excellent State of California benefits.
Visit our website at, http://ag.ca.gov/careers/exams.php to read the COMPLETE - Investigative Auditor II exam bulletin. Please pay attention to the detailed filing instructions to submit your application. Failure to submit all the required documents will result in rejection from the exam. EOE.
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