Accountant; Systems

Responsibilities

• Provide accounting expertise and financial management advice for assigned programs.
• Train staff in proper CEFMS use including transaction processing and data interpretation.
• Analyze trends, investigate discrepancies, and ensure all reporting is accurate, timely and meets the highest standards of transparency and accountability.
• Provide financial integrity, transparency, internal controls, and regulatory compliance of all assigned programs.
• Diagnose and solve complex financial system issues.
• Advise staff and leadership on the accounting and financial system impacts of proposed programmatic or regulatory changes.
• Communicate financial risks and mitigation options to leadership, advising on how to best safeguard assets and ensure reliable financial reporting.
• Ensure financial system internal controls are properly configured and function as designed for assigned programs.
• Provide training and mentor junior staff within the financial management community of practice.
• Advise managers of financial alternatives and impacts of management decisions.
• Translate complex financial data into reports that show the program’s financial position and results clearly and to stakeholders.

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• FM Certification Level 2 is required for this position.
• This position may require TDY 25 percent of the time.

• Degree:
  Bachelor's degree (or higher) in accounting; or a related field with at least 24 semester hours in accounting. The 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law.
• A combination of
  
  Education and Experience:
  
  Must include 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 with up to 6 hours of business law.
• A Certified Public Accountant or Certified Internal Auditor certificate.
• Completion of a degree that included substantial coursework in accounting or auditing, but does not fully satisfy the 24‑semester‑hour requirement, provided that the applicant has successfully worked at the full‑performance level in accounting, auditing, or a related field and that 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 equivalent to a four‑year course of study.

• One year of specialized experience which includes:

  1) Planning for automated accounting operations, including programming and internal management requirements.

  2) Assisting the Division and Headquarters Office in the design, development and implementation of new accounting systems and modifications to existing systems.

  3) Participating with the Branch Chief in installation of accounting systems and modifications or adaptations thereto, and in the design of supplemental procedures, forms and reports required to augment basic instructions.

  4) Preparing financial statements and audit support.

  5) Experience in database query languages such as SQL or similar.

  6) Experience in managerial accounting and asset accounting.

Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS‑11).

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and that such education has been deemed equivalent to an accredited U.S. education program, or that full credit has been granted for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.

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