Budget and Financial Management Director

Full Job Description

The Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) administers the third level of appeals nationwide for the Medicare program, ensuring that beneficiaries, providers, and suppliers have access to an independent forum and an opportunity for a hearing.

OMHA's mission is to be a responsible forum for fair, credible and timely decision-making through an accomplished, innovative and resilient workforce.

Each employee makes a difference by contributing to shaping American health care.

Your resume must include detailed information as it relates to the responsibilities and specialized experience for this position.

Evidence of copying and pasting directly from the vacancy announcement without clearly documenting supplemental information to describe your experience will result in an ineligible rating.

This will prevent you from receiving further consideration.

Specialized Experience: Qualifying experience for GS-15 includes one year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-14 which is directly related to the work of this position and which has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

For this position, specialized experience may include: serving as a recognized expert or leading a team responsible for budget formulation and execution, financial management, acquisitions, and internal audits and controls for an organization; advising management on all aspects of budget formulation, policy, contract and acquisition issues; overseeing an internal audit program relating to financial management and acquisition; developing guidelines and procedures to ensure alignment with regulations and policies; and presenting quarterly and yearly budget information to senior leadership.

Time-in-grade: Current General Schedule (GS) federal employees, and those that have served in GS positions within the last 52 weeks, must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade, or a combination of the next lower grade level and an equivalent band in the federal service.

Provide a copy of your last or most recent SF-50, "Notification of Personnel Action" to indicate your current federal status.

You must also submit additional SF-50(s) to clearly demonstrate one year time-in-grade as required in the announcement.

If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate that you possess one year time-in-grade.

In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one year time-in-grade.

Documenting experience: In accordance with Office of Personnel Management policy, federal employees are assumed to have gained experience by performing duties and responsibilities appropriate for their official series and grade level as described in their position description.

Experience that would not normally be part of the employee's position is creditable, however, when documented by satisfactory evidence, such as a signed memorandum from the employee's supervisor or an SF-50 or SF-52 documenting an official detail or other official assignment.

The documentation must indicate whether the duties were performed full time or, if part time, the "percentage of times" the other duties were performed.

It is expected that this documentation is included in the employee's official personnel record.

In order to receive credit for experience in your resume that is not within the official series and grade level of your official position, you must provide a copy of the appropriate documentation of such experience as indicated above.

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; community; student; social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to gain employment.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

If such experience is on a part-time basis, you must provide the average number of hours worked per week as well as the beginning and ending dates of the experience so it can be fully credited.

Major Duties:

The Budget and Financial Management Director performs the following duties: Responsible for the day-to-day supervision of the Division of Budget and Financial Management employees in budget formulation, execution, planning and reconciliation, financial management, financial policy, acquisition and other management initiatives, including property management, travel, records management and A-123 internal audit and controls.

Oversees the development and execution of OMHA's budget. Represents OMHA in briefings before the Department, OMB and Congress related to the organization's budget and appropriations.

Directs annual national audits of financial and administrative areas to ensure compliance with FMFIA, OMB Circular A-123, HHS and OMHA policies.

Directs annual acquisition planning for OMHA, advising staff in the management of national contracts and contract management.