Compliance & Finance Auditor

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence.  We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

The Compliance & Finance Auditor advances our mission by safeguarding financial integrity and ensuring compliance across all government-funded programs, healthcare and mental health billing streams, grants, and restricted funding sources. Through collaboration with program, clinical, and fiscal leadership, the CFA supports policy and procedure development, enhances billing accuracy and documentation practices, and produces data-driven reports that strengthen the organization’s capacity to prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and financial risk while promoting operational transparency, optimization of billing practices and accountability. This position is critical to maintaining compliance with NY State and NYC funding agencies.

Core Responsibilities: 

• Design audit programs, sampling methodologies, and annual internal audit workplans in collaboration with QPC department leadership. Build testing protocols for OPWDD billing, Medicaid revenue cycle, restricted funds, procurement, payroll allocation
• Manage and conduct internal audits of financial operations, program contract compliance, cost allocations, and allowable costs.
• Document all findings, evidentiary support, and control validation in standardized audit workpapers. Produce written audit reports and briefings for executive leadership, and track CAPs implementation to closure.
• Co-develop, revise, and implement policies and procedures that strengthen internal controls, improve regulatory alignment, and reduce risk exposure.
• Partner with operational leaders, Finance, HR, Billing, and Program leadership to ensure policy suitability and operationalization.
• Conduct proactive fraud risk assessments and forensic review testing based on internal audit plan and emerging needs.
• Support external audit readiness (financial audit, Single Audit, OPWDD audits, Medicaid, ACS, DOH, OMH and MCOs reviews).
• Recommend and monitor remediation strategies and metrics tied to risk reduction.

The New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, the Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Public Administration, or related field.
• Current/Valid Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) credential
• 3 years+ experience in nonprofit compliance / finance audit.
• Experience auditing government funded human services, Medicaid waiver programs, healthcare billing, or behavioral health services.
• Mastery of Uniform Guidance 2 CFR 200, Medicaid cost/allowability rules, state oversight requirements.
• Highly disciplined audit thinking
• Systems problem solving and root cause diagnosis skills
• CPA or CIA preferred