Financial Manager_Execution Team

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.

Mandatory Requirements: 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 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.

Bachelor's Degree, prefer Master's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience. 24 hours of Finance, Accounting or other relevant courses.

Ability to obtain ODNI certifying officer authority within 120 days of appointment to this position. Desired Requirements: Financial Certifying officer authority within the IC.

Project Management Professional or equivalent certification. Major Duties:

Major Duties and Responsibilities: Plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, schedule, sequence, timing of actions, coordinate, and monitor budgetary, financial, accounting, or auditing activities to ensure cost-effective support of Intelligence Community (IC) organizations and programs; analyze and assess financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.

Collect, research, and analyze comprehensive and substantive financial information that includes budget, financial, accounting, audit, and financial reporting information to develop testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership and develop guidance on the preparation of resource requests, reports, or the like to the DNI and Congress.

Comprehensively plan, analyze, determine cost/benefit relationships, and coordinate a great variety of functions, operations, teams, or interfacing financial systems.

Determine 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.

Continually modify long range plans in accordance with changes in Congressional and Presidential program goals; engage in the development of financial management programs, practices, processes, and activities by applying expert knowledge of strategic planning principles that incorporate the vision, mission, and strategic objectives of IC organizations.