Summary

The Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) leads the development, negotiation, and presentation of the National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget on behalf of the Director of National Intelligence to the President and the Congress. The CFO's three main responsibilities include resource management (budget analysis, formulation, justification, and execution), performance planning and evaluation, and financial management improvement.

Duties

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The Intelligence Community (IC) Chief Financial Officer (CFO) leads IC-wide efforts to develop, determine, and present the National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget to the Office of Management and Budget and Congress on behalf of the Director of National Intelligence. The IC CFO also leads IC resource, performance, and financial management as well as procurement oversight and facilities activities. Additionally, IC CFO, through the CFE, provides oversight of ODNI resources, managing formulation, justification, execution, contracts, manpower, financial audits, and ODNI budget matters in coordination with the IC, OMB, DoW, and Congress. The IC CFO serves as the single point of integration for all performance- and budget-related activities across the 18 NIP elements.

Prepare, analyze, and forecast budgetary and financial information to evaluate continual change in program plans and funding and their effect on financial and budget program milestones.

Analyze financial and budgetary relationships to develop recommendations for financial and/or budgetary actions under uncertain conditions or due to short and rapidly changing deadlines, guidance, or objectives.

Conduct budgetary and financial data analyses and the assessment of financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, standards, methods, techniques, controls, and systems to solve a variety of financial management problems.

Collect, research, and analyze comprehensive and substantive financial information that includes any area of budgeting, accounting, auditing, financial planning, and financial reporting to develop reports, testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership, the Office of Management and Budget, or Congress.

Develop specific objectives and devise new methods, techniques, and criteria pertaining to such matters as identifying trends and patterns, acquiring information and analyzing data, developing solutions and presenting findings, and examining requirements for which there are no precedents.

Determine the financial implications of strategic and capital, lifecycle, and 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.

Develops proposals concerning alternative methods, sources, and timing of financing for substantive programs. Must be innovative and adept at conceiving new strategies for solving problems.

Evaluate the mutual effects and interrelationships between program goals and accomplishments and budgetary resources and policies.

Apply broad financial management policies and guidelines and establish performance metrics against priorities, policies, and objectives for frequently changing program objectives, plans, and funding requirements.

Apply IC-wide and ODNI regulations and standardize financial management processes and procedures to improve the quality of financial reporting.

Define complex resource or financial problems, conduct extensive and intensive planning, coordinate multiple activities with a variety of parties, and conduct comprehensive analysis of a multitude of functions and operations.

Engage in financial management programs, practices, processes, and activities by applying principles that incorporate the vision, mission, and strategic objectives which may include audit plans and examinations, accounting operations or evaluations, or risk assessments of operations.

Provide managers content to liaise with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) leadership.

Other 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

FREE RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS

All applicants must answer the following four short, free response essay questions. The responses cannot exceed 200 words per question. By submitting your responses to the following questions, you certify that you are using your own words and did not use a consultant or AI (such as a large language model [LLM]).

1. How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience.
2. In this role, how would you use your skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness? Provide specific examples where you improved processes, reduced costs, or improved outcomes.
3. How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you and explain how you would help implement them if hired.
4. How has a strong work ethic contributed to your professional, academic or personal achievements? Provide one or two specific examples and explain how those qualities would enable you to serve effectively in this position.

Mandatory Requirements:

Thorough ability to prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, and budget resources to ensure cost-effective support of organizations and programs, including conducting budget or financial data analysis and assessing financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.

Able to independently plan and conduct a variety of assignments, assessments, examinations, or investigations.

Ability to provide advice to customers (sometimes external to the organization), in context of operational requirements and based on financial analysis; recommends possible courses of action.

Ability to conduct accounting and financial reporting of information through a thorough knowledge of financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.

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

Ability to assess the financial implications of strategic and capital, life cycle, infrastructure planning, or investment.

Able to formulate recommendations for funding and budget plans that if accepted may require management to revise substantive programs. Recommendations follow detailed analysis and consideration of program requirements in relation to budgetary requirements, policies and methods, and sources and types of funding.

Thorough knowledge of the IC and its components, missions, and interrelationships.

Thorough experience establishing and maintaining professional networks with all levels of management.

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

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

Ability to develop consensus recommendations and to solicit input from colleagues and peers; ability to remain openminded and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements.

Desired Requirements:

Generally, five to seven years of experience in a related field.

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience. 24 hours of finance, accounting or other relevant business courses.

Education

Bachelors Degree

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.

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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