Financial Report and Audit Support Services

USCG requires specialized professional support to oversee a mature audit response infrastructure to support the annual financial statement audit through two key components: The Audit Coordination Team (ACT) and the Financial Reporting Coordination Team (FRCT) per the requirements described in section 2.0. The contractor must have a minimum proficiency in the following applications: Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF (including applications within Adobe PDF), and Power BI. During the FY24 audit, the USCG financial and information technology (IT) responses totaled over 800 PBCs, over 500 samples, over 120 walkthroughs & meetings, and over 150 DHS deliverables. The overarching scope and key goals of this effort include; facilitate, coordinate, and communicate audit response as a single liaison between internal Key Process Owners (KPOs), the IPA, and external stakeholders, in accordance within the established USCG infrastructure. Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QC/QA): Perform QC/QA of selected financial & IT process area KSDs submitted to the auditor, to both increase the accuracy of documentation and reduce the amount of follow-up and findings received during execution of the audit. Validate the 100% of audit requests submitted are free from Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Maintain, revise, and update audit response foundational infrastructure documents to include, but not limited to, Audit Response Tool (currently PowerBI platform), Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Metrics Reports, Key Process Owners Guidance, and Business Rules. Develop and maintain arising infrastructure documents. Inspect current templates, processes, procedures, SOPs, policies, and guidance documents to align with applicable FISCAM controls and provide recommendations and a controls gap analysis. Provide training to KPOs on audit response protocols and tools. Schedule and facilitate meetings and walkthroughs. Identify Business Process Areas (BPA) for applicable audit requests and support pulling of key supporting documentation for samples, as needed. Monitor, track and deliver DHS deliverables through Component Connection; to include performance metrics and scheduling and facilitating materials.