The Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC IG) was established within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) by the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010. The IC IG's organizational divisions include Audit, Investigations, Inspections and Evaluations, Mission Support Division, the Center for Protected Disclosures, and Counsel to the Inspector General.

Duties

The Mission Support Division provides management and administrative support to the entire IC IG office. The Mission Support Division is composed of multidisciplinary officers who provide expertise in financial management, human capital and talent management, facilities and logistics management, continuity of operations, administration, classification reviews, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act requests, information technology, communications, and quality assurance. The Division also delivers executive support to the Intelligence Community Inspectors General Forum and its committees. The Financial Manager is responsible for administering and managing the IC IG's budget and resources, and advising IC IG senior leadership on resource related matters. The IC IG is a relatively small-sized office with a large statutory mandate to provide independent and objective oversight of all programs and activities within the responsibility and authority of the DNI. We are very passionate about what we do - we believe in our intelligence oversight mission and our core values of integrity, independence, accountability, diversity, and transparency. We are looking for someone who shares these core values and will apply them to our mission enabling efforts. If you believe in the mission of effective and objective intelligence oversight, are committed to excellence, and are looking for an opportunity to have a positive and enduring impact on the United States Intelligence Community, this is the place for you. We are looking for a Financial Manager to apply budget and fiscal-related laws, regulations, policies, precedents, methods, and techniques to the management of IC IG resources through all phases of the federal budgetary process. You will communicate with the workforce and senior leaders across the Intelligence Community, other intelligence oversight professionals, and other interested stakeholders to plan, manage and coordinate resource requirements across the IC IG enterprise. Critical thinking, excellent technical skills, strong business acumen, and exceptional inter-personal skills are essential in this role. The ideal candidate for this position is well versed in the scope of laws, regulations, and policies that affect the organization's financial and accounting support systems, as well as contracts management. If you are also an outstanding communicator, detail oriented, and forward thinking, we would like to meet you. Assist the Supervisory Financial Manager with planning, preparing, justifying, administering, analyzing, forecasting, scheduling, and sequencing timing of actions to effectively coordinate and monitor budgetary, financial, accounting, or auditing activities to ensure cost-effective ICIG operations. Assist the Supervisory Financial Manager with planning, managing, coordinating, and integrating work activities, assignments, and projects with managers internal to the ODNI and across the Intelligence Community (IC) to ensure their understanding and the effective completion of initiatives and requirements. Interpret and assess impacts of new and revised Executive or Congressional language on planned or existing resources, programs, activities, and mission. Collect, research, and analyze comprehensive and substantive financial information that includes budget, financial, accounting, audit, and financial reporting information to assist in developing testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior ICIG leadership, and provide input on the preparation of resource requests, reports, or the like to the DNI and Congress. Assist with the development of financial analyses and provide expert advice and recommendations to ICIG senior leadership and the workforce regarding resource administration. Assist with determining the impact of strategic and capital planning, lifecycle management, and policy enforcement throughout the fiscal life cycle (i.e., planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and evaluation) on ICIG activities. Monitor and evaluate the progress and outcomes of financial execution plans and identify potential threats or opportunities. Apply knowledge of strategic planning principles that incorporate the vision, mission, and strategic objectives of IC IG to recommend modifications to long range resource plans in accordance with changes in Congressional and Presidential program goals. Liaise with Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) representatives, or Congressional oversight committees on financial management issues; participate in IC-wide financial management meetings. Maintain IC IG's compliance with IPERIA by timely reviewing and validating invoices for services/materials received.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen residing in the United States
• Appointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on an SBI with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI)
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• A two-year trial period is required for all new permanent appointments to the ODNI.

Qualifications

Knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices, laws, and regulations of financial management, budgeting, accounting, or auditing sufficient to conduct difficult assignments involving interfaces and inter-relationships between and among programs, systems, functions, policies, and various issues and relationships between the IC and ODNI organizational elements, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congress. Demonstrated ability to analyze financial and budgetary relationships to develop recommendations for financial and/or budgetary actions under uncertain conditions or due to short and rapidly changing deadlines, guidance, or objectives. Plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, and monitor budget/financial information to ensure cost-effective support of organizations and programs, including conducting budget/financial data analysis and assessing financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems. Demonstrated ability to conduct budgetary and financial data analyses and the assessment of financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, standards, methods, techniques, controls, and systems to solve a variety of financial management problems. Substantially assess enterprise-wide organizational processes and programs to provide financial advice and recommendations to customers within the context of operational requirements. Ability to lead by example and exemplify IC IG core values of Integrity, Independence, Accountability, Diversity, and Transparency. Ability to determine the financial implications of strategic and capital, lifecycle, and infrastructure planning, investment control, policy enforcement, and management throughout the financial life cycles (i.e., planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and evaluation) within or between IC organizations. Make decisions and recommendations that address undefined issues that require analysis of immediate and long- range implications. Ability to develop proposals concerning alternative methods, sources, and timing of financing for substantive programs. Must be innovative and adept at conceiving new strategies for solving problems. Consider and assess intent of financial or budgetary and program legislation and its effect on the achievement of IC IG strategic objective. Apply broad financial management policies and guidelines and establish performance metrics against priorities, policies, and objectives for frequently changing program objectives, plans, and funding requirements. Ability to conduct accounting, and develop financial reporting information; demonstrated knowledge of financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems. Demonstrated knowledge of departmental or agency financial management policy, regulations, and financial systems, and demonstrated ability to apply sound and independent judgment in order to resolve complex financial problems. Demonstrated oral and written communication skills to communicate effectively with key stakeholders throughout the IC and the United States Government. Demonstrated interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including the demonstrated ability to develop working relationships and networks with internal and external managers and staff. Ability to develop consensus recommendations, solicit input from colleagues and peers, remain open-minded, and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements. Knowledge of contract vehicles to include, independent contractor, commercial item acquisitions, firmed fixed price, and indefinite delivery indefinite quantity, and cost reimbursement. Desired Requirements Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience. 24 hours of finance, accounting or other relevant business courses. Contracting Officer Technical Representative Certification (Level 1 or higher). Understanding of the business operations of Offices of Inspectors General or other oversight entities.

Contacts

• Address MISSION SUPPORT DIVISION Director Of National Intelligence Washington, DC 20511 US
• Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
• Email: [email protected]