Accountant

As a ACCOUNTANT at the GSsome of your typical work assignments may include:

• Performs Financial Reporting and Overview of DHRAs reports submitted by Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) system which includes ensuring financial transactions are processed timely and accurately reviewed and reconciled to coincide with the DoD accounting metric standards.
• Performs feeder system reconciliations of discrepancies and ensures timely correction to produce accurate financial statements.
• Serves as the primary technical interface between external auditors (including Independent Public Accounting (IPA) firms and the DoW Office of the Inspector General) and Personnel Readiness Management Agency operational leadership.
• Carries absolute responsibility for interfacing directly with auditors through all exam phases (planning internal controls testing substantive testing and reporting).
• Develops and certifies the agencys annual Assertion Package for Reporting Entity assessable units formally documenting that internal controls over financial reporting are suitably designed and operating effectively.
• Manages the life cycle of auditor inquiries and provided by client (PBC) requests.
• Coordinates formal management responses to Notifications of Finding and Recommendation (NFRs).
• Serves as the authoritative expert responsible for ensuring absolute independence and segregation of duties across organizational financial operations.
• Establishes maintains and executes robust internal controls testing and audit liaison functions strictly independent of the core accounting division in full compliance with GAO Green Book standards and federal audit guidelines.
• Identifies mitigates and resolves structural deficiencies to safeguard internal control integrity and prevent conflicts of interest.
• Serves as a senior technical authority within the Risk and Compliance Division executing the agencys comprehensive internal controls testing program in strict alignment with Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation (FIAR) directives OMB Circular A-123 and the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA) while overseeing systematic control evaluations across all assessable unit (i.e. Hire-to-Retire Order-to-Cash Property in the Possession of Contractors (PiPoC) Procure-to-Pay Acquire-to-Retire and Budget-to-Report) and enterprise-wide control (i.e. Entity Level Controls Information Technology General Controls (ITGC) and Fraud Controls) pillars to safeguard organizational financial integrity.
• Identifies analyzes and documents systemic control gaps and deficiencies across all audited areas provides strategic compliance recommendations to executive leadership and validates the completion of corrective action plans to ensure absolute compliance with the CFO Act of 1990 and FFMIA standards.
• Performs mandatory civil service oversight technical quality reviews and formal fiduciary acceptance of all third-party commercial contractor deliverables methodologies and testing workpapers across all nine assessable unit and enterprise-wide control pillars; serves as the governments validating authority to ensure contractor execution complies with federal acquisition guidelines inherent governmental responsibilities and agency performance standards.
• Designs establishes and executes the agencys in-house fraud prevention program and forensic detection architecture leveraging advanced forensic accounting acumen and fraud examination methodologies to proactively identify high-risk financial anomalies and strengthen internal control structures against institutional fraud waste abuse and mismanagement.

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Males born aftermust be registered for Selective Service
• Resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply)
• Suitable for Federal employment determined by a background investigation
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
• Work Schedule: Full time
• Overtime: Occasionally
• Tour of Duty: Flexible
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Financial Disclosure: Not Required
• Telework Eligibility: This position is eligible for situational telework.

You may qualify at the GS-14 if you fulfill the following qualifications:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the grade level in the Federal service:

• Planning tracking and coordinating accounting efforts to pass an external audit.
• Coordinating with leadership and subject matter experts to coordinate and respond to prepared by client (PBC) audit requests (e.g. Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA) Independent Public Accounting (IPA) Office of the Inspector General).
• Updating and maintaining organizational end-to-end business process narratives (i.e. process control narratives).
• Managing internal testing events to ensure timely and accurate completion of internal testing deliverables.
• Demonstrating exceptional urgency initiative accuracy and meticulous tracking with identifying describing and communicating audit and internal testing deficiencies.
• Transforming an environment from being reactive compliance driven to being dynamic strategically driven.

1. Degree: 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 6 hours of credit in business law. (The term accounting means accounting and/or auditing in this standard. Similarly accountant should be interpreted generally as accountant and/or auditor.)

   OR

2. 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 applicants background must also include one of the following:
   1. Twenty-four semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality. This can include up to 6 hours of business law;
   2. A certificate as Certified Public Accountant or a Certified Internal Auditor obtained through written examination; or
   3. 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 applicants education training and experience fully meet the specified requirements.