Securing Travel, Protecting People - At the Transportation Security Administration, you will serve in a high-stakes environment to safeguard the American way of life. In cities across the country, you would secure airports, seaports, railroads, highways, and/or public transit systems, thus protecting America's transportation infrastructure and ensuring freedom of movement for people and commerce.

Duties

This Supervisory Financial Specialist position is located in the Financial Management Division (FMD) within the Chief Finance Office (CFO), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to: Serves as the Branch Chief responsible for overseeing branch functions and responsibilities. Incumbent plans, evaluates, reviews and prioritizes assigned program/project(s); exercises complete program responsibility and authority for program planning, evaluation and financial management functions; and acts as the final technical authority on related program/project management issues. Provides authoritative policy interpretations and functional recommendations on diverse financial management issues. Identifies, researches, evaluates and recommends innovative options on difficult financial management problems that require interpretations of internal and external policies and extrapolations from precedents, provides recommendations for solutions and oversees implementations where applicable. Serves as the TSA Management Control Officer, providing direction and oversight and reporting to ensure TSA management control activities are administered in accordance with the Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA). Oversee the internal management control activities, requirements for FMFIA, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-123 and the DHS Accountability Act. Provides oversight and guidance to the TSA financial community on the TSA Management Control Program. Ensures the continuous evaluation, improvement, and reporting on the TSA management control system meets the requirements of FMFIA, OMB and DHS regulations. Provides guidance, direction and training to TSA Assessable Unit Managers and program managers on management control concepts and Management Control Program goals, policies and procedures. Responsible for developing and overseeing management control assessments, training, reporting and tracking of corrective actions taken on material weaknesses and other reportable conditions, and the preparation of various reports to include the annual FMFIA Statement of Assurance for the CFO submission to the Administrator. Provides oversight and guidance for TSA's Internal Controls over Financial Reporting to ensure internal controls meet the requirements of DHS Financial Accountability Act. Provides oversight and guidance for coordination of the annual financial statement audit.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for the SV-K Pay Band (equivalent to GS-15), you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the SV-J or GS-14 Pay Band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position to be filled. Specialize experience is defined as: Leading, developing, overseeing and managing Management Control Programs (i.e. working across an agency at leadership levels and with senior financial management and internal control stakeholders at a Department level to develop and implement goals and objectives); and Developing organization internal controls techniques and providing correction action plans when required; and Applying advanced financial management & internal control principles, concepts, regulations, and analytical methods to internal management control activities; and Analyzing and evaluating financial & internal control information and reports to suggest improvements and identify risks (either executing internal audits or managing financial statement audits); and Providing oversight of day-to-day reporting development activities to include training lower-level staff, recommending corrective actions, providing expert advice to senior-levels, and/or developing guidelines for preparing financial products; and presenting to various level staff and/or audience. Credit for experience is given based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a part-time ratio, i.e., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience. No additional credit is given for overtime. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office. Resumes must include the following: Narrative description of duties with start and end dates (including the month and year) for work experience. State the number of hours worked in a position (i.e. full-time or part-time). If part-time, state the total number of hours worked per week. Performance level (i.e. band or grade) Utilizing the USAJOBS Resume Builder and completing all available fields is strongly encouraged. You must meet the qualification requirements for this position no later than the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

Contacts

• Address DR - Chief Finance Office DO NOT MAIL Springfield, VA 22150 US
• Name: HC ServeU Customer Care
• Email: [email protected]