Deputy Controller

Full Job Description

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.

To qualify at the GS-15 level, applicants must have one year of specialized experience at, or equivalent to, the GS-14 federal grade level.

Examples of specialized experience include: providing short and long-range finance, accounting, and budgetary guidance to organizational leadership; establishing, analyzing, and evaluating financial operating plans for current and future years; reviewing and implementing changes in federal laws, regulations, procedures, and other guidance to revise organizational guidance and policies; and negotiating in the resolution of potentially controversial finance issues.

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

As Deputy Controller, you will: Serve as a key advisor and consultant to the Controller in the planning and administration of the Division's financial and budget execution functions.

Provide the administrative and technical supervision necessary for accomplishing Finance Group's expansive portfolio of work.

Communicate the strategic plan, mission, vision, and values of Division and Finance Group leadership and ensure their integration into the unit's strategies, objectives, work plans, deliverables, and services.

Coordinate and formulate current and long-range financial planning and analysis data, including forecasts.

Analyze and recommend solutions to current and anticipated budget execution issues and challenges involving diverse programmatic requirements.

Lead teams in creating, analyzing, and presenting various reports including obligation rates, accounting data, expenditures, travel data, and personnel expenses.

Participate in discussions and decisions on requests for new funding, change in type of funding, and reprogramming.

Supervise the review and implementation of Division, Agency, and Federal policies and regulations to ensure compliance and consistently produce clean audit results.

Provide draft policy and written technical guidance to be issued as regulations, guides, or instructions. Oversee all required reporting and auditing as required.

Use initiative, judgement, and originality to research and interpret national policy and legislation, keep abreast of new developments in technology, and recommend changes to FG methods and procedures accordingly.

Represent Finance Group interests at Departmental working groups, task forces, and expert panels on special projects or studies of considerable scope and depth critical to the resolution of finance issues.