Auditor (Financial Job Idaho Falls area,Idaho USA,Accounting

Position: Auditor (Financial)

The Department of Energy (Department), Office of Inspector General (OIG) is currently looking for an Auditor (Financial) in the Office of Audits. Join our professional team to help support the Department's mission through performance and financial audits, inspections, and investigations into alleged violations of law.

Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted.
An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience
. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.
Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected.

BASIC REQUIREMENT:

Degree: Bachelor's or higher in accounting, auditing; or a degree including auditing courses 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 6 hours of credit in business law.

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Combination of education and experience: at least 4 years of experience in accounting, or an equivalent combination of accounting experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional accounting knowledge. The applicant's background must also include one of the following:

Twenty-four semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality. This can include up to 6 hours of business law;
A certificate as Certified Public Accountant or a Certified Internal Auditor, obtained through written examination;

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Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in accounting or auditing, e.g., 15 semester hours, but that does not fully satisfy the 24-semester-hour requirement of paragraph A, provided that (a) the applicant has successfully worked at the full-performance level in accounting, auditing, or a related field, e.g., valuation engineering or financial institution examining; (b) a panel of at least two higher level professional accountants or auditors has determined that the applicant has demonstrated a good knowledge of accounting and of related and underlying fields that equals in breadth, depth, currency, and level of advancement that which is normally associated with successful completion of the 4-year course of study described in paragraph A;

and (c) except for literal nonconformance to the requirement of 24 semester hours in accounting, the applicant's education, training, and experience fully meet the specified requirements.

-AND- EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQURIEMENTS:

For the GS-07: A qualified candidate's online application and resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-05) in the federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience is defined as ALL of the following:

Applying basic knowledge of accounting and/or auditing principles, concepts, and techniques to perform routine tasks.

Examining a variety of records, such as accounting records or transactions, financial data, and/or internal control procedures, to contribute to audit products.

Participating as part of a team involved in financial audit work.

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Successful completion of one (1) year of graduate-level education in a related field that provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position. Examples of related academic fields include accounting, auditing; business administration, finance, or public administration in which the academic program included accounting or auditing courses; or another academic program primarily comprised of courses clearly related to the work of this position.

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A bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement in a related field. Superior Academic Achievement is based on (1) class standing, (2) grade-point average, or (3) honor society membership.

Class standing
- Applicants must be in the upper third of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision, based on completed courses.

Grade-point average
- Applicants must have a grade-point average of: 2.95 rounded to 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 as recorded on their official transcript, or as computed…