Supervisory Financial Resource Analyst
What you'd do
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the Nation's risk advisor, working with partners to defend against today's threats and collaborating with industry to build a more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future.
Major duties
Typical work assignments include, but are not limited to: Ensuring timely performance of satisfactory volumes and quality of work, acceptance, amendment, or rejection of work and ensures priorities are set for accomplishment of work. Giving advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters, while effectively resolving complaints from employees and referring more serious unresolved complaints to higher leadership. Identifying developmental and training needs of employees, providing or arranging for needed development and training, while finding ways to improve production or increase the quality of work directed. Leading/Supervising the team by directing, implementing, and coordinating a variety of fiscal policies and audits impacting CISA financial activities or operations. Providing financial advice and assistance in the analysis of financial programs for complex business events and new types of FDIC business events to ensure complete and accurate reporting. Planning, scheduling and carrying out major projects concerned with the analysis and evaluation of programs, and exercising discretion and judgment in determining whether to broaden or narrow the scope of projects. Maintaining a system of internal controls to ensure the integrity of data contained in the financial information and processing systems. Managing and/or performing financial reconciliations and other fiscal analyses common to federal agencies including reconciliation of financial and procurement system transactions, research, and resolution of outstanding travel and purchase card account balances, validation/verification of unliquidated obligations, and evaluations of fee revenue/expenses stemming from agency operations. Ensuring CISA meets federal regulations, congressional mandates, and administrative policies related to financial management processes, including financial reports, financial policy, travel, internal control audit remediation, purchase cards, financial systems, and financial operations. Providing expert advice and knowledge on policies and procedures that focus on travel/conference planning, purchase/travel cards, payment management, and/or commitments and obligations management. Ensuring all financial operations, processes, and systems are managed, documented and controlled. Having detailed knowledge in developing justification for financial policy, providing senior level agency coordination of financial management issues such as the appropriate accounting to treat cross lines of business financial transactions within operational divisions. Maintaining the integrity and efficiency of CISA's financial management systems and accessing the conformance to GAO and OMB standards, which includes core financial management systems, procurement management systems, travel and invoice systems. Oversight of financial system business processes and analysis of business requirements related to appropriate changes to the financial system. Evaluating, and/or monitoring agency financial management software, enough to recommend enhancements, and/or improvements tot he financial information systems.
What you need to qualify
Do NOT copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Your resume must describe your work and experience, in your own words. To be considered minimally qualified for this position, you must demonstrate that you have the required experience for the respective grade level in which you are applying. You qualify at the GS-15 grade level, if you have: EXPERIENCE: At least one (1) year of specialized experience at the GS-14 grade level (or equivalent) performing all the following duties: Leading the development, implementation, and oversight of complex financial management systems by ensuring compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and agency policies; Supervising and directing a team of financial analysts by providing expert advice and technical direction on financial management commitments, obligations, and payments; Exercising expert judgement in resolving highly complex financial issues, including audit findings, internal controls, and risk management; AND Overseeing the administration of payments, obligations, travel, and purchase/travel/fleet card programs, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Time-in-Grade Requirements: Under competitive merit promotion procedures, any individual who is currently holding, or who has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule (GS) position under a non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet "time-in-grade" requirements (have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade of the grade for which you are applying). Time After Competitive Appointment: By the closing date specified in this job announcement, current Federal civilian employees must wait at least 90 days after their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive service referral certificate before promotion, transfer, reinstatement, reassignment, or detail. All qualification requirements, including Time-in-Grade, must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Qualification AND Time-in-Grade claims will be subject to verification.
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