Chief Financial Officer

Full Job Description

This is a Temporary Promotion, Not To Exceed for 1 year.

The incumbent is the Chief of Financial Management and Business Operations and serves as the principal financial advisor to the facility Director, Associate Director, Assistant Director, Associate Director of Patient Services, Chief of Staff, Service Chiefs, and subordinate supervisors on matters related to financial services.

Selection may result in permanent placement without further competition. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/06/2026.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service.

An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials.

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

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

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade, GS-13, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Specialized Experience is defined as experience that equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.

Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: providing advice and/or consultation to management officials regarding budget formulation and financial management duties to include managerial cost analysis, accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, business development, and revenue generation and strategic planning.

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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week.

Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities.

Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Preferred Experience: Knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, policies, and precedents that influence the use of program and related support resources; Knowledge of major issues, program goals and objectives, work processes, and administrative operations within the organization; Knowledge of detailed analyses of complex functions and work processes.

The full performance level of this vacancy is GS 14. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is GS 14.

Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary but there are instances of standing, bending, walking, lifting and carrying of items such as records and reports.

There will be a fair amount of walking as needed to attend meetings.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Major Duties:

Contributing financial and operational advice and counsel pertinent during all stages of planning, policy formulation and decision making.

Providing advice and recommendations on many problems and proposed actions which go beyond purely financial matters.

Actively participating in both long and short range planning activities, thereby influencing decisions and actions that involve the scope of programs and overall policies and procedures of this two division medical center.

Maintaining current knowledge of existing and emerging concepts of management, planning, budgeting, program evaluation and general health care administration.

Developing local budget instructions and policies within the framework of mandatory requirements for use of operating officials in preparing their budget estimates.

Making recommendations to management and the Budget Committee concerning amounts to be allocated.

Responsible for a comprehensive accounting program which includes: planning, analyzing and evaluating current and past performance, projecting demand and the performance desired in response to the demand and recommending changes to meet the needs of management.

Participating in preparing formal presentations, reports and position papers signifies the importance in developing new concepts and creative approaches in financial management.

Responsible for an internal audit system designed for continual monitoring of the propriety of fiscal operations and the effectiveness of financial management.

Advising the VISN CFO on specific matters related to medical center programs.

Supervising and controlling all facility fiscal functions, to include General Ledger Accounting, Budget, Voucher Audit, Agent Cashier, Accounts Receivable, Employee Accounts, Revenue generation, Non-VA Medical Care Program, Timekeeping, General Post Fund, the facility Purchase Card/Travel Card program and the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA).

Ensuring the Accounting staff completes the audit of public vouchers, collection of funds, cash disbursements, maintenance of subsidiary accounts receivable records, and follow-up actions necessary to collect debts.

Participating in management discussions, decisions, policymaking and shares in the responsibility for top management actions covering all activities related to the Financial Management functions.

Participating in the performance of all duties involved in the medical center budget and fund control duties.

Developing local policies for use by operation officials in preparing budget estimates and business plans. Ensuring payroll operations meet all OPM, VA, FHA, and local station policies.

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday 0700-1530 Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: Not Available Virtual: Not Available Position Description/PD#: Chief Financial Officer/PD033280 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Authorized