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SUPERVISORY AUDITOR (Title 5)

Army National Guard Units

Department of the Army

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Salary

$120,094 - $156,124

per year

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GS-5 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $33,878 - $44,042

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience. Bachelor's degree.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job is for a lead auditor in the Army National Guard, where you'll oversee financial audits, check how money and resources are used, and ensure everything follows the rules.

It's based in Hartford, Connecticut, and involves managing a team to plan, conduct, and report on audits that improve efficiency and catch any issues.

A good fit would be someone with strong accounting knowledge, leadership skills, and experience in government finance who enjoys detailed analysis and guiding others.

Key Requirements

  • Degree in Accounting or related field (e.g., business administration, finance, public administration) with at least 24 semester hours in accounting (up to 6 hours in business law allowed)
  • U.S. citizenship and status as an on-board federal employee (Tenure 0,1,2,3) assigned to the USPFO within the Connecticut National Guard
  • At least 48 months of specialized experience in financial or performance audits, including planning, conducting, and reporting with objective assessments
  • Level one or level two financial management certification
  • 24 months of supervisory experience in finance and audit programs, including planning work, training employees, assigning tasks, and addressing performance issues
  • Demonstrated ability to lead audits that evaluate financial management, ensure compliance with laws and regulations, and provide recommendations for improvements
  • Experience in preparing audit reports, oral presentations on findings, and mentoring subordinates on audit procedures and career development

Full Job Description

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION DUTY LOCATION: United Stated Property & Fiscal Office (USPFO), Hartford, CT AREA(S) OF CONSIDERATION: Area I: All On Board Federal Employees (T5), Tenure 0,1,2,3 assigned to the USPFO within the CTNG with U.S.

citizenship.

MANDATORY EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: Degree in Accounting; or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included - or - was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting.

The 24 hours may include up to six hours of credit in business law.

GENERAL EXPERIENCE: All on-board Series GS-0511 personnel must be certified at the next higher grade-level before being eligible for grade promotion to that level; and, must have a minimum of one year on-the-job experience in the grade immediately below the next higher level.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Your resume and any other supporting documentation you wish to provide must clearly substantiate you currently possess the required length of specialized experience in the following: REQUIRES 48 MONTHS: Must possess at the least, level one or level two financial management certification.

Experience demonstrating financial audit and/or performance audit competencies that led to objective and systematic examinations and resulted in independent audit assessments of structure, performance, efficiency, program, activity or function.

Experience and competencies providing expert performance results in applying auditing principles and procedures.

Experience in audit preparation, planning, conducting, and reporting with a full range of competencies in the auditing business that successfully accomplished intended purposes; met or exceeded operational efficiency; provided accurate, reliable, timely, and useful financial audit data; or demonstrated experiences in conducting audits that involved evaluating financial management in terms of economical use of property and personnel.

Experience demonstrating adherence to prescribed policies; effective control over expenditures, liabilities, revenues, and assets; proper accounting for resources and financial transactions; compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and precedent decisions; and compliance of agency accounting systems with generally accepted must include audit report preparations and oral presentations that involved significant audit findings and discovered conditions with cause and effect factors.

Experience presenting research recommendations for remedial actions, such as addressing methods for improving the use of funds and the identification of questionable costs.

Experience demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the principles and concepts of the audit business program requirements.

Experience demonstrating an expanded finance and auditor program competencies and training that demonstrated his or her competencies to lead, train subordinates, follow directions, read, retain, and comply with instructions, regulations, policies and procedures.

REQUIRES 24 MONTHS: Experience demonstrating broadening finance and audit program competencies in supervising, planning and scheduling work in a manner that promotes smooth flow and even distribution of work assignments.

Experience training and guiding employees on finance and audit programs and assigning tasks.

Experience involving audit program assignments, balancing finance and audit program work requirements, compliance with specific finance and audit program policies, and providing advice, mentoring, and directions on a wide variety career development options.

Experience in addressing specific employee performance issues. Experience in structuring assignments that created effective and efficient procedures with measured and improved task processes.

Experience improving training applications for career development timeliness considerations, and work efficiencies. Experience and/or endorsements on mentorship competencies provided to employees.

Experience demonstrating a working knowledge of equal employment and affirmative action programs.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Skill in collecting and analyzing data effectively, efficiently, and accurately.

Ability to clearly enunciate English without impediment of speech that would interfere or prohibit effective communication. Ability to write English in reports and presentation formats.

Ability to comprehend and/or apply problem-solving and negotiating techniques. Skill in working with multiple software computer programs.

Skill in presenting formal training presentations and briefings. Skill in applying procedures and directives by reading and interpreting program material. Major Duties:

This National Guard position is for a SUPERVISORY AUDITOR (Title 5), Position Description Number T5143P01 and is part of the CT USPFO, National Guard. Temporary promotion not to exceed two

years. The purpose of the temporary promotion is to backfill a deployed Soldier. The temporary promotion will be terminated within 30 days of return of the incumbent to the position.

Position to be filled upon the vacancy of the incumbent.

JOB SUMMARY: The primary purpose of the position is to supervise a staff of Auditors engaged in substantive professional, technical, and administrative work.

Supervisory duties constitute at least 25% of the work of this position and the creditable base level of work supervised is GS-12.

To credit this base level requires supervision of a unit in which at least 25% of the non-supervisory work directed is at the GS-12 level.

Serves as principle auditor and authoritative expert on internal review and audit compliance.

The major duties include, but are not limited to: Responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, and reviewing daily and long term operations.

Exercises supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Develops programs and makes assignments by establishing priorities in conjunction with the Adjutant General and USPFO.

Performs liaison functions with internal/external agencies, and private organizations, e.g., Army Audit Agency, Government Accounting Office, Air Force Auditing, State Legislative Audit, Congressional Staff, and contractors to schedule audits and coordinate responses.

Performs analyses, surveys, and studies as a "troubleshooter" in critical areas involving problems of exceptional complexity and having significant operational or financial management impact, identifies the source of troubles or difficulties, and solves, eliminates, corrects, or overcomes them.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/3/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/4/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: CT-12901090-AR-26-042