Audit Readiness & Compliance Specialist

The Audit Readiness & Compliance Specialist serves as CompuNet's central coordinator for audit readiness, audit execution, compliance assessments, and remediation activities. This role manages the full lifecycle of corporate, partner, regulatory, and internal audits—from initial intake and planning through successful completion and ongoing monitoring.

This role is responsible for operationalizing CompuNet's enterprise audit readiness program by maintaining governance processes, audit schedules, control ownership models, evidence repositories, readiness dashboards, and corrective action tracking. Working across all business functions, this role ensures CompuNet remains audit-ready year-round while reducing audit risk, improving compliance maturity, and supporting successful audit outcomes.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Audit Program Administration

• Serve as the primary coordinator for all audit-related activities across CompuNet.
• Manage both net-new audits and recurring audit renewals.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise audit calendar.
• Create annual audit roadmaps, readiness plans, and governance processes.
• Maintain visibility into audit requirements, assessments, compliance obligations, and renewal schedules.
• Provide readiness reporting, risk assessments, and executive status updates.
• Establish accountability for audit controls, evidence ownership, and remediation activities.

Audit Planning & Execution

• Coordinate corporate, partner, regulatory, and internal audits from initiation through completion.
• Manage audit timelines, milestones, stakeholder assignments, resource planning, and deliverables.
• Lead audit readiness reviews, kickoff meetings, team status check-ins, and lessons-learned sessions.
• Coordinate auditor requests, interviews, workshops, walkthroughs, and evidence reviews.
• Track and escalate risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and compliance concerns.
• Ensure timely completion of audit deliverables and commitments.

Documentation, Controls & Evidence Management

• Maintain a unified control library that maps requirements, controls, owners, and evidence across audit programs.
• Maintain centralized audit documentation libraries and evidence repositories.
• Develop and enforce evidence retention, version control, and documentation standards.
• Validate the completeness, accuracy, and quality of evidence submissions.
• Partner with business owners to create missing documentation and audit artifacts.
• Integrate evidence collection into recurring operational processes and governance activities.
• Assist teams in creating missing documentation and audit artifacts in partnership with stakeholders.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communications

• Coordinate cooperation between auditors and internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate requests for information, interviews, workshops, and evidence reviews and ensure timely responses.
• Facilitate communications across Operations, GTM, Sales, Engineering, HR, Finance, IT, and Leadership.
• Prepare and deliver leadership briefings, readiness dashboards, audit status reports, and stakeholder communications that provide visibility into audit progress, risks, key decisions, and upcoming milestones.
• Drive accountability for audit deliverables and action items.

Compliance, Risk & Continuous Improvement

• Identify compliance gaps, control deficiencies, operational risks, and process weaknesses.
• Support the development of policies, standards, procedures, and governance practices.
• Coordinate corrective action plans and remediation efforts through closure.
• Track findings, observations, and trends across audits and assessments.
• Recommend process improvements that increase audit readiness and reduce compliance risk.
• Lead initiatives that improve organizational audit maturity and control effectiveness.

Audit & Assessment Portfolio

• Microsoft partner audits and assessments.
• Cisco partner audits.
• ISO certifications & surveillance audits.
• SOC assessment or audits.
• OSHA preparedness and audits.
• Security and governance reviews.
• Internal compliance assessments.
• Regulatory and contractual compliance audits.
• Other audits, as identified.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business, compliance, operations, project management, or related field.
• 3+ years of audit, compliance, governance, program management, or operational experience.
• Strong project management, documentation, and organizational skills.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives, including audits and executive communications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced Microsoft 365 proficiency, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Microsoft, Cisco, ISO, SOC, OSHA, or similar audits and assessments.
• Knowledge of NIST, CIS, ISO, SOC, or other compliance frameworks.
• Experience with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) methodologies or platforms.
• PMP, CAPM, CISA, CRISC, ISO Lead Auditor, or related certifications.
• Experience building audit readiness, control management, or compliance programs.