Audit Director (0933) - Business Services Bureau - SFPUC (160682)

Company Description

This is a Position-Based Test conducted in accordance with CSC Rule 111A.

•    Application Opening: November 17, 2025
•    Application Filing Deadline: December 2, 2025
•    Recruitment ID: PBT-0933-160682, RTF0160860-01148837

WHO ARE WE?
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area – 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Our Mission: To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

Our Vision: We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at https://www.sfpuc.gov.

We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.

To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at https://www.sfpuc.gov/about-us/careers-sfpuc

Business Services

Under the leadership of Chief Financial Officer and Assistant General Manager, Business Services provides a range of internal and external services to customers, employees and other stakeholders. We are focused on customer service and satisfaction, impeccable financial stewardship, and technology security and innovation. Our teams’ services include customer billing and collection, technology help desk management, business applications support, budgeting, accounting, financial planning, capital financing, rate administration, risk management, internal audit, and strategy and change management.

Job Description

Under general direction of the Assistant General Manager of Business Services and Chief Financial Officer, the Director will champion agency-wide internal controls, cost-efficiency, accountability and transparency, and enforce adherence to policies and procedures to maintain SFPUC’s commitment to public integrity and responsible stewardship of its financial and operational assets and resources.

This leadership role is critical to ensuring a strong ethical climate of the SFPUC and will develop and uphold the SFPUC Audit Bureau’s Charter; administer the SFPUC Audit Plan; facilitate performance audits and assessments with visiting oversight CCSF departments and external agencies; advise upon and support implementation of audit resolutions; and implement policies and ethics training programs to prevent fraud, waste and abuse of agency assets.

Essential Functions:

• Direct the daily operations of the SFPUC Audit Bureau by administering the governance, risk, and compliance framework of the agency.
• Develop and implement bureau goals, objectives and initiatives while ensuring sufficient resources to achieve appropriate levels of service and successful project outcome.
• Administer and monitor the Audit Bureau annual budget and interdepartmental service workorders; strategize with executive/management and deliver services to meet organization and divisional objectives.
• Prepare and present management reports communicating agency audit and assessment activities to senior and executive SFPUC management, city oversight agencies, and the SFPUC Commission.
• Develop and administer the SFPUC Annual Audit Plan timely through collaboration with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., agency management, City Services Auditor, etc.)
• Monitor and assess effectiveness and efficiency of internal controls, business processes and policies and procedures.
• Ensure timely management response to recommendations, and at times, facilitates implementation of resolutions to mitigate identified risks and internal control deficiencies.
• Facilitate and perform reconciliation and analysis of legal expenditures to ensure accurate classification, as required by the Water Supply Agreement; partner closely with the City Attorney’s Office to deliver timely data and facilitate internal stakeholder management review/reconciliation of legal expense.
• Assess and enhance organizational compliance with local, State or Federal policies and guidelines.
• Analyze internal financial and operational data to identify risks, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
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