Summary

This position is located in the Criminal Division's Finance Group (FG) and serves under the direct supervision of the Controller. The Finance Group is responsible for the overall financial management, monitoring, and reporting, for all 17 sections of the Criminal Division. The Finance Group works to ensure policy compliance, execute budget and financial initiatives, and strategically manage the Division's fiscal resources.

Duties

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As Lead Financial Management Analyst, you will be:

• Providing critical guidance to Criminal Division managers on a full range of financial activities and functions, including the validation of expenditures and procedures for processing budget requests.
• Participating in the development of long-range plans based on expenditures, funds reprogramming, and other budgetary information.
• Managing the workload, mentoring, and training of an assigned team of finance professionals, technicians, trainees, and/or contractor employees.
• Analyzing and ensuring the development of weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports of obligations and expenditures using relevant applications and data repositories.
• Investigating the utilization of government funds and identifying areas for streamlining and ensuring the placement of adequate controls.
• Overseeing the development of budget execution documents.
• Conducting quarterly and annual year-end-closing activities and performing reconciliation with accounting.
• Resolving complex prediction and forecasting problems resulting from uncertainties and changes in the operating programs.
• Leading financial audit preparation to include account analysis; audit sample preparation; complex data issue resolution; obligations, revenue, payment, and internal controls review; and other related activities.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to qualify for this position.
• You must undergo a pre-employment security investigation.
• Selective Service Registration is required, as applicable.
• You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• You must meet status eligibility for this announcement.
• Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required to have federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.
• A one-year probationary period may be required.

Qualifications

To qualify at the GS-13 level: You must have at least one year of specialized experience at, or equivalent to, the GS-12 federal grade level. This experience must include duties such as: managing the development of budget execution documents; providing guidance on a full range of financial activities and functions, including the validation of expenditures and procedures for processing budget requests; and recommending solutions to address budget shortages and fiscal problems.

Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements for consideration by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

There is no education requirement for this position.

Additional information

ELIGIBILITY: You are eligible under merit promotion procedures, if you meet one of the following criteria:

• Current DOJ employees with career or career-conditional appointments in the competitive service; or
• Displaced Federal employees requesting special priority selection consideration under the Career transition Assistance Plan (CTAP).

Additional selections may be made from this vacancy announcement to fill vacancies that occur subsequent to this announcement.

If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, please reach out to [redacted] or [redacted] for alternative application procedures.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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