Lead Financial Management Analyst

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-13 level: You must have at least one year of specialized experience at, or equivalent to, the GS-12 federal grade level.

This experience must include duties such as: managing the development of budget execution documents; providing guidance on a full range of financial activities and functions, including the validation of expenditures and procedures for processing budget requests; and recommending solutions to address budget shortages and fiscal problems.

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

As Lead Financial Management Analyst, you will be: Providing critical guidance to Criminal Division managers on a full range of financial activities and functions, including the validation of expenditures and procedures for processing budget requests.

Participating in the development of long-range plans based on expenditures, funds reprogramming, and other budgetary information.

Managing the workload, mentoring, and training of an assigned team of finance professionals, technicians, trainees, and/or contractor employees.

Analyzing and ensuring the development of weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports of obligations and expenditures using relevant applications and data repositories.

Investigating the utilization of government funds and identifying areas for streamlining and ensuring the placement of adequate controls. Overseeing the development of budget execution documents.

Conducting quarterly and annual year-end-closing activities and performing reconciliation with accounting.

Resolving complex prediction and forecasting problems resulting from uncertainties and changes in the operating programs.

Leading financial audit preparation to include account analysis; audit sample preparation; complex data issue resolution; obligations, revenue, payment, and internal controls review; and other related activities.