Financial Manager

Duties

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Plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, schedule, sequence, timing of actions, coordinate, and monitor budgetary, financial, accounting, or auditing activities to ensure cost-effective support of Intelligence Community (IC) organizations and programs; analyze and assess financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.

Interpret and assess impacts of new and revised Executive or Congressional language on planned or existing resources, programs, activities, and mission; assessing effects of actions on program viability and attainment of objectives.

Collect, research, and analyze comprehensive and substantive financial information that includes budget, financial, accounting, audit, and financial reporting information to develop testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership and develop guidance on the preparation of resource requests, reports, or the like to the DNI and Congress.

As needed, lead the development of complex financial analyses and provide expert advice and recommendations to senior IC customers in the context of their operations and requirements.

Oversee and manage the financial implications of strategic and capital/lifecycle/infrastructure planning, investment control, policy enforcement, and management throughout the financial life cycles (i.e., planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and evaluation) within or between IC organizations.

Lead or engage in the development, improvement, and implementation of financial management policies and guidelines and establish performance metrics against priorities, policies, and objectives.

Monitor and evaluate the progress and outcomes of operational performance plans and identify potential threats or opportunities.

Collaborate in the development and coordination of IC and ODNI regulations to improve and standardize financial management processes and

procedures to improve the quality of financial reporting.

Continually modify long range plans in accordance with changes in Congressional and Presidential program goals; engage in the development of financial management programs, practices, processes, and activities by applying expert knowledge of strategic planning principles that incorporate the vision, mission, and strategic objectives of IC organizations.

Liaise with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) leadership, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), or Congressional oversight committees on financial management issues; participate in IC-wide financial management working groups, committees, or meetings.

Other budget/financial duties, as assigned.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen residing in the United States
• Appointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on an SBI with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI)
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• A two-year trial period is required for all new permanent appointments to the ODNI.

Qualifications

Expert knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices, laws, and regulations of financial management, budgeting, accounting, or auditing sufficient to conduct difficult assignments involving interfaces and inter-relationships between and among programs, systems, functions, policies, and various issues and relationships between the IC and ODNI organizational elements, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congress.

Superior ability to plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, and monitor budget/financial information to ensure cost effective support of organizations and programs, including conducting budget/financial data analysis and assessing financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.

Superior ability to independently analyze exceptionally large and complex national level programs.

Superior ability to substantially assess enterprise-wide organizational processes and programs to develop, recommend, and implement budgetary and financial policies and agreements.

Superior ability to provide advice to customers, in context of operation requirements bases on financial analysis and recommends possible courses of action.

Superior ability to develop and render authoritative interpretations of executive orders, OMB guidelines and directives, and policies and precedents within and across the IC.

Superior ability to conduct accounting, and financial reporting information; expert knowledge of financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.

Expert knowledge of departmental or agency financial management policy, regulations, and financial systems and demonstrated ability to apply sound and independent judgment in order to resolve complex financial problems.

Superior ability to manage the financial implications of strategic and capital/life cycle/infrastructure planning, investment

Expert knowledge of the IC and its components, missions, and interrelationships, including the demonstrated ability to lead broad-based teams regarding key IC financial management issues.

Expert experience establishing and maintaining professional networks with all levels of management both internal and external to the ODNI.

Expert representational, oral, and written communication skills, including the demonstrated ability to produce clear, logical, and concise products.

Superior organizational and interpersonal skills, and demonstrated ability to negotiate, build consensus, and work effectively and independently in a team or collaborative environment.

Expert ability to develop consensus recommendations and to solicit input from colleagues and peers; demonstrated ability to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements.

Education

Bachelor's Degree. Do NOT submit transcripts.

Additional information

JOB INTERVIEW TRAVEL

Candidates from outside the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA) may be selected for a telephone, teleconference, or in-person interview.

SALARY DETERMINATION

The ODNI uses a rank-in-person system in which rank is attached to GS employees on the basis of individual qualifications, experience, and performance. Individuals whose current GS grade is equivalent to the grade of the advertised position will retain their current grade and step. Individuals who transfer to the ODNI from a non-GS pay scale will have base pay converted to the appropriate GS grade and step as determined by the Chief of Human Resource Management.

Current federal employees whose current GS grade is lower than the grade of the advertised ODNI position will have pay set at his or her current grade and step.

In some cases when a current federal civilian employee applies for an ODNI position that is a lower grade than his or her personal grade, the candidate's personal grade will be downgraded to the grade of the advertised ODNI position and pay will be set at the step that is closest to, and not less than, the employee's current annual base rate of pay, not to exceed the maximum step rate of the GS grade to which assigned.

RELOCATION EXPENSES

For new ODNI employees, reimbursement for relocation is discretionary based on availability of funds.

Benefits

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