Management Analyst (Compliance and Audit Analyst)

Date Opened: Wednesday, March 11, 2026 12:00 AM

Close Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 12:00 AM

Department: Contracting and Procurement Department

Salary: $68,455.00 - $85,569.00 Commensurate with Experience

Welcome to the City of Charlotte

Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our guiding principles include:

• Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce

• Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development

• Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services

• Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems

• Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions

SUMMARY

Under the direction of the Office of the Contracting & Procurement Director, this position reports to the Compliance & Performance Program Manager as part of the Strategic Optimization Program. This team is responsible for the development and distribution of compliance reports, development of associated compliance plans for each report, enforcement of compliance plan responsibilities and escalation procedures, and recommendation to the Compliance & Performance Program Manager of any new compliance reporting or auditing opportunities.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain data validation through comprehensive compliance reporting systems ensuring accuracy adherence to relevant regulations and standards.

• Collect, analyze, and interpret data related to compliance metrics and key performance indicators as needed from various systems.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify compliance requirements and integrate them into reporting processes.

• Assists with the development and presentation of regular compliance reports for internal stakeholders and external regulatory bodies as required by developing spreadsheets, programming languages and visualization.

• Assists with the Investigation of compliance issues and discrepancies, and recommends corrective actions to ensure adherence to regulations.

• Assists with streamlining reporting processes providing functional areas with data analysis to support management decision making and process improvement.

• Conduct audits and assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of compliance initiatives compared to policy & process requirements and identify areas for improvement.

• Maintain documentation related to compliance reporting procedures, data sources, and methodologies.

• Collaborate with IT and data management teams to optimize data collection, storage, and retrieval processes for compliance reporting purposes.

• Prepare compliance reports during internal and external audits and inspections.

• Assists with the development, implementation, and administration of the SOP Corporate Compliance Program.

• Assists with a range of individual projects in line with key corporate and service improvement plan objectives, to continually improve risk mitigation, service efficiency, accuracy, and performance.

• Responsible for maintaining ERP and E-Procurement systems as needed.

• Serves as the backup P-Card Administrator for the P-Card Program.

• Performs other related duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel and data analytics required.

• Technical expertise and experience working with databases, data warehouses and ERP systems, writing & extracting reports.

• COSO training and best practices preferred.

• Ability to combine and format data utilizing various tools such as Excel, Access, Tableau leveraging advanced formulas, pivots and delineations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and two years of related experience

• Requires a candidate highly-analytical with strong attention to detail

• Candidate possessing experience leading and directing professional staff or, an equivalent combination of education, knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and two years of related exper