Director Finance Office Comptroller

Duties

The Director, Finance Office/Comptroller is responsible for managing NOAA's accounting system and developing overall financial management guidance. The Director provides guidance and control of financial management activities such as cash management, internal controls, prompt payment, electronic payments, travel management, financial reporting, internal audits, and cost accounting at all levels of operations; supports and enhances NOAA's financial management policies, systems and procedures;

provides financial payment and travel systems NOAA-wide and for all DOC counterpart organizations. The incumbent has primary responsibility for directing and leading the full range of Bureau financial operations, which include the following:
1. Serves as principal expert in all financial management programs as required by the Chief Financial Officers Act. Coordinates necessary audit activity throughout NOAA organizations. Institutes methodologies, organizational practices, and processes to ensure audit readiness and accuracy consistent with applicable U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and prescribed Departmental accounting policies and procedures.
2. Maintains liaison with key management officials and provides assistance on complex budgetary and financial matters, and builds consensus among executives, senior and internal or external stakeholders regarding strategies that contribute to more efficient allocation of resources, which cross-cut organizational lines. Provides advice and assistance where needed to meet requirements established by DOC, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the Department of the Treasury.

Externally communicate with senior officials at the Department of Justice, OMB, General Services Administration, and OIG to coordinate financial matters.
3. Develops uniform operational systems and approaches that improve NOAA accounting procedures.
4. Interprets and implements accounting changes to the Government Performance and Results Act, Government Management Results Act (OMRA), Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act, OMB Bulletin 97-01, Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA), and other financial management improvement acts.
5. Ensures the financial management system complies with Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Boards (FASAB), GAO, Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP), FMFIA, and FFMIA requirements. Develops and implements integrated systems, policies, and procedures designed to ensure financial information generated by NOAA's accounting system is reliable, consistent with all regulatory requirements, and meets the needs of Congress, DOC, and NOAA.
6. Provides technical policy, procedure, guidance, and financial management leadership on overall fiscal and accounting matters. Develops and/or oversees the implementation of programs and processes that ensure robust monitoring of financial transactions and budget execution to achieve complete compliance with applicable laws and regulations, as well as internal and external policy. Adopts adequate measures to address anomalies and eliminate/mitigate risks of future non-compliance.

7. Anticipates the effect of legislative and administrative changes and initiatives and ensures development of effective, legally-compliant, fully responsive budget formulation strategies to provide for implementation of programmatic priorities.
8. Provides leadership in budget proposal and/or justification efforts, advising senior leadership on funding strategies and novel solutions to new or unique programmatic funding requirements.
9. Oversees accurate allocation of costs among budget accounts and evaluates proposals for reprogramming of funds, advising managers and bureau leadership on all appropriate compliance measures and ensuring that approved transfers of budget authority between budget accounts are consistent with reprogramming regulations. 10. Advises senior leadership on the entire range of budgetary and financial matters, including internal control measures, and builds consensus among executives, senior managers, and internal or external stakeholders regarding strategies that contribute to more efficient allocation of resources.