Chief Financial Operations and Audit

Full Job Description

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.

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]).

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. 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. 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.

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: Superior knowledge of the principles, concepts, laws, and regulations of financial administration, budgeting, accounting, or auditing sufficient to generate new concepts and methodologies.

Willingness to obtain training to acquire expert-level knowledge in these areas within one (1) year of arrival.

This position will have to work across ODNI elements and across agencies to resolve complex audit issues, and requires an individual with great interpersonal skills and the ability to build and manage relationships.

Expert ability to plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, and monitor an internal control program to ensure the ODNI's compliance with regulatory and fiscal compliance.

Superior ability to serve as expert and consultant to top agency management officials and customers, in context of operational requirements based on financial analysis and recommend possible courses of action.

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

Desired Requirements: Experience in conducting financial management audits or inspections.

Comprehensive knowledge gained through work experience of accounting concepts, policies practices, and methods. Experience with funding from other government agencies. Major Duties:

Major Duties and Responsibilities: Oversee and coordinate ODNI's audit efforts, including production of audit reports, audit remediation, recommended solutions, and production of the ODNI Agency Financial Report.

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 to develop reports, testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership, the Office of Management and Budget, or Congress.

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.

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