BASIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:JOB DESCRIPTION: Financial Auditors conduct independent assessments of Agency financial policy, programs, and operations, in accordance with NGA Office of Inspector General (OIG) guidance, Government Auditing Standards, and other applicable requirements. They may oversee contractors performing NGA's financial statement audits. They gather and analyze information to determine whether potential findings exist and id

Duties

BASIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: continuationIndependently assess audit remediation strategies and dependencies for Property, Plant and Equipment (PP&E) material weakness.Advise senior leadership across all agency business processes that require collaboration and produce, manage, and report agency financial information with focus on the internal controls over financial reporting and internal controls over financial systems (including financial management, IT, contracting, program management, property administration, and others.) Assess, advise, and implement change for Agency strategies that improve policy and governance of these business areas. Evaluate all NGA material weakness corrective action remediation strategies to ensure they address dependencies for Procure to Pay (P2P) and Acquire to Retire (A2R) processes for PP&E. Address root cause issues, significant milestone and critical path for progress against detailed overarching audit schedule. Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to identify a strategy and critical path to maximize use of NGA's resident financial management system capabilities to implement system controls and/or replace manual controls, processes, and legacy tools. The PP&E financial statement audit HQE will assess NGA's current corrective action plans to determine adequacy of addressing root causes, identify any dependencies and review for efficiency and sustainability over the long term to meet the Agency's audit goals. The deliverables include a risk assessment of current plans, an assessment of current plan dependencies and timelines, recommendations for alternate approaches, and identifying associated resource requirements. The HQE will also assess established standards and policies for all resource management areas with focus on the procurement, financial execution, and property accountability areas. Ensures management policies accomplish NGA goals for current and future resource management compliance. Evaluates progress of organizations and programs in achieving goals and objectives. Advises the agency senior audit committee and service providers on actions critical to supporting the financial statements audit. Coordinates the work of assigned and contracted specialists supporting planning, systems analysis, and development of audit-related concepts. Ensures NGA creates internal control initiatives/procedures and processes where needed. Develops and executes control creation strategies which eliminate control gaps and mitigate high risks. Advises and supports recruitment, development and retention of a high-quality work force to enable sound business performance. Establishes and maintains effective lines of communication and a positive work environment.

Requirements

• Security Investigation

Qualifications

MANDATORY QUALIFICATION CRITERIA: * Provide demonstrated knowledge of understanding inherent risk, including fraud risks, related to PPE?* Provide demonstrated knowledge assessing the risks of material misstatement and designing of tests of controls and substantive procedures covering the following aspects:o Existence of PPEo Completeness of recorded PPEo Rights of recorded PPEo Valuation of PPEo Correctness of classification of PPE* Provide demonstrated knowledge of internal controls processes relating to PPE?* Provide demonstrated knowledge of the accounting policies, including policies for determining which costs are capitalized, whether a cost or valuation model is followed and depreciation (including assessment of residual values) appropriately calculated.* Provide demonstrated knowledge of relevant disclosures for PPE (or class of PPE) on depreciation methods, measurement bases, details of additions and deletions, the existence of rights and restrictions, carrying amount during the course of construction, contractual commitments, impairment of assets, revaluation of assets, etc, as per the Standards applicable to the entity.

Contacts

• Address NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Mailstop: S44-HDR 7500 GEOINT Drive Springfield, VA 22150 US
• Name: Recruitment
• Phone: 571-557-1999
• Email: [email protected]