Whitney Clarke, MBA, CIA

Experience

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  U.S. Army Audit Agency

  May 2008 - Apr 2016

  Auditor

  The U.S. Army Audit Agency serves the U.S. Army by providing objective and independent auditing services. The Agency helps the Army make informed decisions, resolve issues, use resources effectively and efficiently, and satisfy statutory and fiduciary responsibilities.Duties included: researching and becoming familiar with audit topic, entity, processes, and controls; developing audit approach and methodology; collecting and analyzing data; documenting results; developing conclusions and recommendations; reporting findings; maintaining effective communications with clients.Significant accomplishments included: deployed to Afghanistan and Kuwait in support of audit efforts focused on improving Army expeditionary operations related to cost-saving measures, stewardship of taxpayer dollars, and national security; performed in-depth audit analysis in support of an Army investigative case involving larceny of government funds; identified critical vulnerabilities in the Defense Travel System’s internal controls that made the system susceptible to fraud and developed recommendations for corrective action; identified 6 Defense Travel System users who engaged in potentially fraudulent behavior (valued at about $450,000) and referred the case to the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (which later implicated a number of the individuals for improper use of the system); constructed audit programs and drafted audit reports; headed the Agency’s internal control program; developed a new and improved computerized audit analysis tool to gather and consolidate overall results of Army internal controls based on tests performed during Agency audits.Audit division assignments included: Intelligence & Security Audits, Expeditionary Support Audits (performed in Southwest Asia), Financial Reporting Audits, and Financial Management Audits. Show less

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  U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General

  Apr 2016 - Oct 2021

  The USPS OIG plays a key role in maintaining the integrity and accountability of America’s postal service, its revenue and assets, and its employees. The USPS OIG achieves its mission of helping maintain confidence in the postal system and improving the Postal Service’s bottom line through independent audits and investigations. Audits of postal programs and operations help to determine whether the programs and operations are efficient and cost-effective. Investigations help prevent and detect fraud, waste, and misconduct and have a deterrent effect on postal crimes.Duties include: counseling and guiding staff to ensure that approved audit objectives are met and adequate practical coverage is achieved; planning, organizing, and conducting research on complex audit issues that involve major areas of uncertainty in approach, methodology, or interpretation to identify appropriate solutions; accumulating data, maintaining records, and preparing status reports on the administration of assigned activities and audit projects; collecting and analyzing data using a wide variety of tools, techniques, and methods; learning and applying new tools and techniques to extract data from various Postal Service and external data systems; identifing and procuring analytical tools that support data analysis; developing and maintaining risk models; identifying audit leads based on data analysis and risk models; presenting oral briefings to management on results of assessments and studies (which may be complex or controversial); negotiating agreements; influencing approval and implementation of agency-wide solutions and plans; representing the OIG in meetings with high-level officials from the Postal Service, other agencies, vendors, and members of external organizations.Assigned to the Cost, Pricing and Investments audit directorate. Show less The USPS OIG plays a key role in maintaining the integrity and accountability of America’s postal service, its revenue and assets, and its employees. The USPS OIG achieves its mission of helping maintain confidence in the postal system and improving the Postal Service’s bottom line through independent audits and investigations. Audits of postal programs and operations help to determine whether the programs and operations are efficient and cost-effective. Investigations help prevent and detect fraud, waste, and misconduct and have a deterrent effect on postal crimes.Duties included: leading complex performance audits through research, planning, survey, execution, and reporting; applying effective project management to accomplish audit project objectives and goals; evaluating programs and operations for compliance with and adherence to regulations/policies/procedures and for adequacy of internal controls; developing findings and making recommendations for corrective action; writing audit reports and presenting audit results to internal management and Postal Service management and stakeholders.Significant accomplishments included: led a complex audit that evaluated the accuracy and completeness of costing data and procedures used to develop the Postal Service’s largest cost segment; identified a system deficiency that posed a significant data integrity risk and potentially resulted in a misallocation of over $1 million among mail processing cost pools; successfully led complex audit with a junior staff from project start to end in 171 calendar days within budgeted staff hours and costs; conducted comprehensive research and data analysis for a special project on the Flats Sequencing System (a high visibility and controversial topic due to public scrutiny) and presented results to senior management; contributed to an audit plan proposal for future Flats Sequencing System audits.Assigned to the Cost, Pricing and Investments audit directorate. Show less

  • Audit Manager

    Apr 2017 - Oct 2021

  • Auditor-in-Charge

    Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
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  Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of State

  Oct 2021 - now

  Audit Manager