Auditor (Financial)

As a GS-13 Financial Auditor the individual is responsible for planning coordinating and conducting or overseeing comprehensive engagements of major scope and complexity. The auditor monitors and provides oversight of engagement teams from contracted independent public accounting firms performing highly complex federal financial statement audits and ensures the quality and integrity of all related products. The auditor may also serve as the auditor-in-charge of an audit or attestation (or lead a portion of larger engagements) performed by the Financial Statement Audit Office. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Providing technical guidance and expert advice to other auditors and engagement teams from contracted independent public accounting firms on the interpretation of federal accounting principles concepts and practices; and the application of government auditing standards as prescribed by the Government Accountability Office.
• Developing new approaches and innovative audit techniques to evaluate the Departments bureaus functions and operations.
• Developing audit and attestation program guides for engagements performed by the Financial Statement Audit Office.
• Exercising technical direction over the collection and analysis of data; and ensuring that evidence collected is sufficient competent and relevant to support conclusions reached in audit and attestation reports; and properly documented and reviewed in the audit working papers.
• Providing effective team leadership including: (1) proactively identifying and resolving problems that could impact engagement goals; (2) establishing priorities and adjusting schedules to accomplish the work as timely as possible; and (3) effectively utilizing resources.
• Drafting audit and attestation reports that consolidate and integrate the work of others. The reports should provide a logical structure for presenting results answering all of the audit objectives and ensuring that all elements of a finding are supported by the data. The Financial Auditor also performs quality control reviews of the independent public accounting firms audit documentation summaries notifications of findings and recommendations and draft audit reports. Additionally the Financial Auditor reviews the auditees responses for reasonableness factual accuracy and responsiveness to the findings and recommendations.
• Assisting in developing the message and drafting significant portions of other products such as briefings meetings reports testimonies and fact sheets; and ensuring all products are clear convincing accurate and thorough.
• Planning for and conducting or participating in status meetings with key officials of audited activities to obtain information advise them of the engagements progress and develop honest and productive relationships with these parties.
• Providing coaching mentoring and feedback to team members as well as the engagement manager on performance and providing informal mentorship and guidance to junior staff (e.g. GS-11 and GS-12 Financial Auditors).
• Identifying new areas for audit and planning new engagements by submitting tactical plan suggestions that support the OIG strategic plan as well as audit proposals that detail the benefit of committing resources to performing the work.
• Assisting in developing statements of work participating on a technical selective panel to evaluate contract proposals monitoring contract milestones and inspecting contract deliverables and Performance.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• You must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• You must be registered for the Selective Service if applicable.
• You must successfully pass and are subject to random drug screenings.
• You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• You may be subject to a probationary period.
• You must complete the USAHire Questionnaire in order to be considered for this position.

Selective Placement Factor
Your resume must show in detail that you possess the below Selective Placement Factor.

Experience as an independent auditor in conducting or overseeing federal financial statement audits performed pursuant to the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act or Accountability of Tax Dollars Act.

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Education Requirements for Financial Auditors

1. Degree: 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.

   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 such 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.

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Specialized Experience

To qualify at the GS-13 level applicants must have one (1) year of specialized experience at least equivalent to a GS-12 Financial Auditor position which is in or directly related to auditing and program evaluation or assessment which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

Examples of specialized experience includes performing or overseeing independent audits of federal financial statements as the senior auditor (in-charge auditor) which includes directing and instructing audit team providing team members with technical guidance independent performance of major segments of assigned tasks and reviewing completed work; and performing contracting tasks such as drafting statements of work and reviewing contract deliverables for a federal financial statement audit contract. Specialized experience also includes technical knowledge and understanding of the Federal financial statements (i.e. Balance Sheet Statement of Net Cost Statement of Changes in Net Position Statement of Budgetary Resources and Statement of Custodial Activity).

Only experience gained from a federal financial statement audit performed pursuant to the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act or Accountability of Tax Dollars Act will meet the specialized experience. The applicant must demonstrate an understanding of Government Auditing Standards for Financial Statements audits and the OMB Audit Bulletin. Experience from any other types of audits (i.e. performance audits internal audit work related to OMB A-123 requirements) will not be accepted towards meeting the specialized experience. Your resume must show in detail that you possess the above Specialized Experience.

Time in Grade Requirement: 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 level (or equivalent).

Your resume and supporting documents must also clearly demonstrate that you have the experience listed to qualify for this position.