Financial Manager

Full Job Description

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Directorate for Mission Integration (MI) creates a consistent and holistic view of intelligence from collection to analysis and serves as the Director of National Intelligence's (DNI) principal advisor on all aspects of intelligence.

MI integrates mission capabilities, informs enterprise resource and policy decisions, and ensures the delivery of timely, objective, accurate, and relevant intelligence.

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.

Extensive knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices, laws, and regulations of financial management, budgeting, accounting, or auditing sufficient to conduct difficult assignments involving interfaces and inter-relationships between and among programs, systems, functions, policies, and various issues and relationships between the IC and ODNI organizational elements, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congress.

Demonstrated ability to plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, and monitor budget/financial information to ensure cost-effective support of organizations and programs, including conducting budget/financial data analysis and assessing financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.

Demonstrated ability to independently analyze exceptionally large and complex national level programs.

- Demonstrated ability to substantially assess enterprise-wide organizational processes and programs to develop, recommend, and implement budgetary and financial policies and agreements.

Demonstrated ability to make decisions and recommendations that address undefined issues that require much consideration and extensive analysis of immediate and long-range implications.

Demonstrated ability to consider and assess intent of financial or budgetary and program legislation and effect on achievement of strategic objectives; demonstrated ability to resolve conflicting objectives and requirements that result from important national program goals which overlap or conflict with goals of other programs and national priorities.

Demonstrated ability to provide advice to customers, in context of operation requirements bases on financial analysis and recommends possible courses of action.

Demonstrated ability to develop and render authoritative interpretations of executive orders, OMB guidelines and directives, and policies and precedents within and across the IC.

Demonstrated ability to use judgment and ingenuity and exercise broad latitude in interpreting intent of applicable guidance (often with peer recognition as the technical authority).

Demonstrated ability to conduct accounting, and financial reporting information; extensive knowledge of financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.

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

Demonstrated ability to craft policy on financial management, budgetary requirements, accounting, or auditing for use throughout the IC or ODNI.

Demonstrated ability to manage the financial implications of strategic and capital/life cycle/infrastructure planning, investment.

Extensive knowledge of the IC and its components, missions, and interrelationships, including the demonstrated ability to lead broad-based teams regarding key IC financial management issues.

Extensive experience establishing and maintaining professional networks with all levels of management both internal and external to the ODNI.

Demonstrated representational, oral, and written communication skills, including the demonstrated ability to produce clear, logical, and concise products.

Demonstrated organizational and interpersonal skills, and demonstrated ability to negotiate, build consensus, and work effectively and independently in a team or collaborative environment.

Demonstrated ability to develop consensus recommendations and to solicit input from colleagues and peers; demonstrated ability to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements.

Certified Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR). Current TS/SCI with CI Polygraph Major Duties:

Interpret and assess impacts of new and revised Executive or Congressional language on planned or existing resources, programs, activities, and mission; assessing effects of actions on program viability and attainment of objectives.

Assist MI Staff Director with the MI budget execution, identify requirements and capabilities; developing the MI Front Office annual spend plan, work with the MI components and assist with their annual spend plans development.

Provide substantial, clear, logical recommendations on how to track commitments, obligations and expenditures.

Prepare, analyze, and forecast budgetary and financial information and taskers responses to evaluate continual change in program plans and funding and their effect on financial and budget program milestones.

Oversee and manage the financial implications of strategic and capital/lifecycle/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.

- 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.

Accomplish Contractor Performance Monitor duties Conduct budgetary and financial data analyses and the assessment of financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, standard, methods, techniques, controls, and systems to solve a variety of financial management problems.

Collect, research, and analyze comprehensive and substantive financial reporting to develop resource management reports, briefings, talking points for the MI Staff Director or others as directed.

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).

Propose and develops proposals concerning alternative methods, sources and timing of financing for substantive programs for the MI Staff Director's approval.

Must be innovative and adept at conceiving new strategies for solving problems.

Evaluate the mutual effects and interrelationships between program goals and accomplishments, budgetary resources and policies.

- Apply broad financial management policies, guidelines and propose performance metrics against priorities, policies, and objectives for frequently changing program objectives, plans, and funding requirements.

Apply IC-wide and ODNI instructions, and propose standardized financial management processes and procedures to improve the MI quality and financial reporting.

Define complex resource or financial problems, conduct extensive and intensive planning, coordinate multiple activities with the MI components, and conduct comprehensive analysis of a multitude of functions and operations.

Engage in financial management programs, practices, processes, and activities by applying principles that incorporate the MI's vision, mission, and strategic objectives which may include audit plans, internal controls, accounting operations or risk assessment of operations.

Provide the MI Staff Director or other managers content to liaise with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) senior leadership.

When required complete or assist with the completion of RCAFs, PETs, SLA, ORE, and ULO/ODO Taskers.

Maintain IC Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) Certification and maintain proficiency in the ALM System. Other duties, as assigned.