Financial Management Specialist

Full Job Description

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: Serves as Financial Management Specialist for the Joint Activities located at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Only resumes up to a total of two pages will be accepted.

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

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; spiritual; community; student; social).

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

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes monitoring complex financial management operations through a variety of oversight, audit and investigative processes; establishing systems to maintain control to ensure operational and financial systems compliance; and conducting comprehensive review and analysis of financial transactions to determine the accuracy and completeness of documentation and internal control procedures.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Major Duties:

• Performs the most complex analysis and evaluations related to all aspects of accounting, management control and risk management.
• Serves as the technical expert on financial and operations internal control and audit readiness and interfaces with Directors and Commanders to operate effective programs.
• Assures that all audit and investigative work is thoroughly documented so that it is defensible and will support any subsequent legal action if required.
• Serves as the Command representative and point of contact for external agency audits and compliance reviews of financial controls.
• Serves as the principal financial and operations internal control advisor to the Command.
• Works with senior level managers to address and resolve internal control financial management problems and issues.
• Prepares the overall Command response on all external financial audit reports.
• Develops and monitors financial and operational systems and programs to assist the serviced managers in fulfilling their responsibilities.
• Provides solutions to control and reporting problems and recommends actions required to improve operating program effectiveness and maintain the integrity of financial and accounting information.