IT Systems Audit SME (SAP WMS)

Role overview

This senior-level position acts as the principal technical authority for audit readiness, internal controls, compliance, and risk management within a Warehouse Management System (WMS) environment. The role is embedded in a federal defense logistics context and operates with significant autonomy across functional, technical, financial, and operational teams. The mission centers on safeguarding inventory accountability, transaction traceability, and financial integrity while sustaining continuous audit readiness.

Responsibilities

- Lead audit-readiness assessments covering operational compliance, inventory accountability, financial accountability, transaction traceability, and internal-control effectiveness. - Evaluate end-to-end WMS business processes—including receiving, putaway, inventory management, cycle counting, picking, packing, shipping, goods movements, and returns—and the controls tied to each stage. - Trace transactions from physical warehouse events through system records, interfaces, and downstream financial records to validate completeness, accuracy, authorization, and auditability. - Assess control design and operating effectiveness, identify deficiencies, evaluate compensating controls, and recommend sustainable corrective actions. - Develop and maintain audit documentation, process and control maps, risk assessments, control matrices, testing packages, and Corrective Action Plans (CAPs). - Perform root-cause analysis on audit findings, inventory discrepancies, transaction failures, and process non-compliance, and monitor remediation activities through closure. - Produce audit-risk dashboards, trend analyses, compliance metrics, and executive briefings on control posture and emerging risks.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Business, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Cybersecurity, Finance, or a related discipline. - Minimum 8 years of professional experience in IT audit, financial audit readiness, internal controls, compliance, or enterprise risk management. - Minimum 5 years supporting DoD or federal ERP, logistics, supply-chain, WMS, or inventory-accountability systems, including hands-on assessment of system-enabled controls. - Demonstrated experience with internal-control assessments, control-design and operating-effectiveness testing, transaction testing, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action development. - Demonstrated ability to produce audit documentation, process/control maps, risk assessments, CAPs, testing documentation, and compliance reporting. - Working knowledge of federal and DoD audit frameworks such as OMB Circular A-123, the GAO Green Book, FISCAM, and FIAR/DoD financial-management standards.

Nice to have

- Experience supporting DLA Distribution, warehouse operations, or comparable DoD logistics environments. - Experience working with SAP transaction and document flows and tracing operational transactions through financial and accountability systems.

Benefits and work setup

- Expected salary range of $130,000–$155,000 annually, determined by experience, qualifications, skills, and location. - Market-competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.