Exam Bulletin - Supervising Governmental Auditor II

Department of Social Services

Exam Code: EX-4802

Examination Plans Included:

  • SUPERVISING GOVERNMENTAL AUDITOR II - Promotional

Final Filing Date: 12/31/2025

Classification Details

SUPERVISING GOVERNMENTAL AUDITOR II: $8,265.00 - $10,785.00 per Month

View the SUPERVISING GOVERNMENTAL AUDITOR II classification specification.

Application Instructions

The Supervising Governmental Auditor II examination package consists of an Examination/Employment Application (STD 678) and a Training and Experience examination.

Final Filing Date: 12/31/2025.

Examination/Employment Application (STD 678) must be received or postmarked by the filing date indicated above. Applications postmarked, personally delivered or received via interoffice mail after the filing date will not be accepted.

Who Should Apply:

The information below will help you determine which classification(s) is(are) appropriate for you. Applicants must meet the Minimum Qualifications as stated on this bulletin to compete in this examination.

Promotional Examination(s):

  • SUPERVISING GOVERNMENTAL AUDITOR II - Promotional

In addition to meeting the Minimum Qualifications, competition is limited to individuals who meet at least one of the following filing criteria:

  • 1. Have a permanent civil service appointment with a promotional testing department (see Testing Departments), or
  • 2. Are current or former employees of the legislature for 2 or more years as defined in Government Code 18990, or
  • 3. Are current or former non-elected exempt employees of the executive branch for 2 or more consecutive years as defined in Govt. Code 18992, or
  • 4. Are persons retired from the United States military honorably discharged from active duty with a service disability or honorably discharged from active duty as defined in Government Code 18991. Applicants must provide a copy of discharge papers (DD 214) for verification purposes at the time of application.

Under certain circumstances other employees may be allowed to compete under provisions of Rules 234, 235 and 235.2. California Code of Regulations Rules 233, 234, 235.2 and 237 contain provisions regarding civil service status and eligibility for promotional examinations.

How To Apply:

Submit an Examination/Employment Application (STD 678) to apply for this examination.

Electronic applications can be submitted through your account at www.CalCareers.ca.gov.

You may apply by mail to:

  • Examinations Unit
    California Department of Social Services
    P. O. Box 944243 - MS 8-15-58
    Sacramento, CA 94244-2430

Indicate the Examination Code and Classification(s) on your Examination/Employment Application (STD 678).

You may drop off your application and any applicable or required documents at:

  • California Department of Social Services
    Examinations Unit
    744 P Street MS 8-15-58
    Sacramento, CA 94244-2430
    8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Indicate the Examination Code and Classification(s) on your Examination/Employment Application (STD 678). All applicants must provide proof of identification. Accepted forms of identification are: 1) a photo identification card or 2) two forms of signed identification.

It is the applicant’s responsibility to submit their State Examination Application and Training and Experience Examination packets on time and to ensure the envelope is postmarked if applying by way of U.S. mail or contains proof of timely deposit with a parcel delivery or courier service. Dates printed on Mobile Bar Codes, such as the Quick Response (QR) Codes available at the United States Postal Service (USPS), are not considered Postmark dates for the purpose of determining timely filing of an examination application.

Application packets may be personally delivered between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday (except State holidays), to the Department of Social Services, HRSB - Examinations Unit, Mail Station 8-15-58.

You may email your completed Examination Packet (STD 678, and T&E):

Examinations@dss.ca.gov

For e-mail submission, documents must be attached as a PDF file to your email, no other format will be accepted.

The State Examination Application (STD. 678) is available through your CalCareers Account or the internet at State Examination Application (Std. 678). Please be sure to include your current email address on your State Examination Application.

Special Testing Arrangements:

If you require assistance or alternative testing arrangements due to a disability, indicate on your application that you need reasonable accommodation. You will be contacted by a representative of the testing department to make the necessary arrangements. If you have not been contacted by the time you receive notification of testing, please contact the testing department listed in the Contact section of this bulletin.

If you are unable to submit your application or complete the test due to a disability, please contact the testing department listed in the Contact section of this bulletin.

Minimum Qualifications

All applicants must meet the education and/or experience requirements as stated on this exam bulletin to be accepted to the examination.

Unless otherwise stated in the Minimum Qualifications, qualifying experience may be combined on a proportionate basis if the requirements stated below include more than one pattern and are distinguished as "Either" 1, "or" 2, "or" 3, etc. For example, applicants possessing qualifying experience amounting to 50% of the required time of Pattern 1 and additional experience amounting to 50% of the required time of Pattern 2 may be accepted to an examination as meeting 100% of the overall experience requirement.

00104140 - SUPERVISING GOVERNMENTAL AUDITOR II

Either I
One year of experience in the California state service performing the duties of a professional accounting or auditing class equivalent in level to Supervising Governmental Auditor I. or

Two years of experience in the California state service performing the duties of a professional accounting or auditing class equivalent in level to Governmental Auditor III.

Or II
Experience: Five years of increasingly responsible professional accounting or auditing experience. For at least two years, this responsibility must have been at a level equivalent to supervising the conduct of a variety of audits or financial examinations. (Experience in California state service applied toward this requirement must be in accordance with the provisions of the promotional pattern.) and

Education: Either
1. Completion of a prescribed professional accounting curriculum given by a residence or correspondence school of accountancy including courses in elementary and advanced accounting, auditing, cost accounting and business law. or

2. Completion at a collegiate-grade residence institution of the equivalent of 16 semester hours of professional accounting courses including courses in elementary and advanced accounting, auditing, and cost accounting; and three semester hours of business law.

Note: Applicants must submit a copy of their unofficial college transcripts along with the application package when using education to meet the entrance requirements for this examination.

Position Description

00104140 - SUPERVISING GOVERNMENTAL AUDITOR II

Supervises the scheduling of audits and develops and maintains uniform application of auditing procedures and techniques and proper application of the law and agency policies; trains the staff, evaluates their performance and takes or recommends appropriate action; advises staff on unusually difficult problems of audit procedure or application of the law; refers problems requiring legal interpretation and makes recommendations on policy to supervisors; makes the more difficult interagency contacts necessary in coordinating the audit program; makes recommendations to superiors designed to correct and systematize the accounting systems of local jurisdictions or to modify rules and regulations governing local jurisdictions in the administration of State-supported programs; confers with public and private officials and the staff on such significant problems as exceptions set forth in audit findings; assists in such administrative activities as the preparation of workload or other budgetary data, the development of a procedures manual for the work of the audit staff or the development of accounting systems for specific activities carried on by local jurisdictions, may when assigned by the Controller, supervise audits of State agencies and other entities subject to audit by the Controller.

Ability to qualify for a fidelity bond.

For information regarding position location(s), please refer to the Eligible List Information section.

Examination Information

The examination will consist of a Training and Experience Examination (supplemental report) weighted 100%.

The examination is designed to elicit specific information regarding each candidate’s training and experience relative to the classification. Responses to the examination will be assessed based on pre-determined rating criteria.

Applications will be reviewed by the Examinations Unit to determine if the applicant meets the minimum qualifications. All applicants who meet the minimum qualifications will have their completed Training and Experience Examination rated.

This examination consists of the following component(s):

Component OrderComponent TypeComponent DuePercentage of Final Score
1Supplemental ReportWith Application100%

Components that are due with your application will be scored and will count toward your final examination result. Failure to submit these items may result in disqualification or elimination from the examination.

A final score of 70% must be attained to be placed on the eligible list.

In addition to evaluating the applicant's relative knowledge, skill and ability as demonstrated by quality and breadth of education/experience, emphasis in each test component will be on measuring competitively, relative to job demands, each applicant's:

Knowledge of:
1. Applying general accounting and auditing principles and procedures.
2. Specialized auditing practices and procedures as used in auditing governmental jurisdictions.
3. Governmental accounting and budgeting.
4. Principles and techniques of organization, management, and supervision.
5. Principles of public finance, business law.
6. Department’s Equal Employment Opportunity objectives.
7. A manager’s role in the Equal Employment Opportunity program and the processes available to meet equal employment opportunity objectives.

Ability to:
1. Apply general accounting and auditing principles and procedures.
2. Apply specialized auditing practices and procedures as used in auditing governmental jurisdictions.
3. Plan, organize, and direct the statewide program of auditing governmental jurisdictions having programs financed by State appropriations, loans, grant-in-aid, or subventions.
4. Develop policies and procedures for the statewide auditing program.
5. Apply provisions of the law, legal opinions, and court decisions and departmental policies, rules and regulations related to the work.
6. Analyze data and draw sound conclusions.
7. Analyze situations accurately and take effective action.
8. Prepare clear, complete, concise reports.
9. Establish and maintain cooperative relations with those contacted in the work.
10. Speak and write effectively.
11. Effectively contribute to the department’s Equal Employment Opportunity objectives.

Eligible List Information

A Departmental Promotional eligible list for the SUPERVISING GOVERNMENTAL AUDITOR II Classification will be established for:

  • Department of Social Services

The list(s) will be abolished 12 months after being established, unless the needs of the State and conditions of the list(s) warrant a change in this period.

Resulting Eligibility List will be used to fill vacancies with the California Department of Social Services.

Veterans' Preference is not granted for promotional examinations.

Career Credits are not granted for examination(s) administered on an Open basis or a Promotional basis.

Testing Departments

  • Department of Social Services

Contact Information

Questions regarding this examination should be directed to:

California Department of Social Services
744 P Street MS 8-15-58
Sacramento, CA 94244-2430
Phone: (916) 657-1762

California Relay Service: 1-800-735-2929 (TTY), 1-800-735-2922 (Voice). TTY is a Telecommunications Device for the Deaf, and is reachable only from phones equipped with a TTY Device.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The State of California is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.

Drug Free Statement

It is an objective of the State of California to achieve a drug-free State work place. Any applicant for State employment will be expected to behave in accordance with this objective, because the use of illegal drugs is inconsistent with the law of the State, the rules governing civil service, and the special trust placed in public servants.

General Information

Examination and/or Employment Application (STD 678) forms are available at the California Department of Human Resources, local offices of the Employment Development Department, and through your CalCareer Account (www.CalCareers.ca.gov).

If you meet the requirements stated on this examination bulletin, you may take this examination, which is competitive. Possession of the entrance requirements does not assure a place on the eligible list. Your performance in the examination described in this bulletin will be rated against a predetermined job-related rating, and all applicants who pass will be ranked according to their scores.

Department of Social Services reserves the right to revise the examination plan to better meet the needs of the service, if the circumstances under which this examination was planned change. Such revision will be in accordance with civil service laws and rules and all applicants will be notified.

General Qualifications: Applicants must possess essential personal qualifications including integrity, initiative, dependability, good judgment, the ability to work cooperatively with others, and a state of health consistent with the ability to perform the assigned duties of the class. A medical examination may be required. In open examinations, investigation may be made of employment records and personal history and fingerprinting may be required.

Eligible Lists: Eligible lists established by competitive examination, regardless of date, must be used in the following order: 1) sub-divisional promotional, 2) departmental promotional, 3) multi-departmental promotional, 4) service-wide promotional, 5) departmental open, 6) open. When there are two lists of the same kind, the older must be used first. Eligible lists will expire in one to four years unless otherwise stated on the bulletin.

High School Equivalence: Equivalence to completion of the 12th grade may be demonstrated in any one of the following ways: 1) passing the General Education Development (GED) Test; 2) completion of 12 semester units of college-level work; 3) certification from the State Department of Education, a local school board, or high school authorities that the competitor is considered to have education equivalent to graduation from high school; or 4) for clerical and accounting classes, substitution of business college work in place of high school on a year-for-year basis.

Accepted applicants must provide proof of identification at each in-person test session. Acceptable identification consists of a photo identification card or two forms of signed identification.
Application Methods:
Electronic (Your CalCareer Account)
By Mail
In Person (see bulletin for details)
Alternate Application Process

While we recommend that you utilize your CalCareer Account to take advantage of all the tools available, you may choose to apply for this examination without using your account. In this case, print and complete the Exam Application Package Checklist and include it if you submit a hard copy application.

Exam Application Package Checklist

Blank Application Form (STD678)

Accommodation Request (STD679)