This Assistant Chief Financial Officer position is located is located in the Fiscal Service at the Manchester Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Manchester, New Hampshire. This is a full-time position at 40 hours per week.

Duties

Serves as the full operating assistant to the facility Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The position has responsibility for the overall operation, training, and production of each section or unit in Fiscal Service and for the coordination of their assigned functional activities to produce quality service products. The Assistant Chief Financial Officer (Asst. CFO) duties include, but are not limited to: Makes determinations as to the accounting, statistical, or fiscal/administrative processes, procedures and techniques that will be employed to meet customer expectations. Formulates, develops and executes the annual budget plans and in administers the medical center's financial management program. Works with the CFO on interpretation of program objectives and developing procedures to attain these objectives, resolving Fiscal Service operating challenges, making decisions on cases which require interpretation of laws, regulation, administrative rules, and organizational policy, with decisions having a material effect upon the planning, coordination, directing, and controlling of departmental objectives. Responsible for maintaining an automated and fully integrated system of financial staff services, which contributes to the effective management and control of medical center operations in such areas as accounting, budgeting, travel, payroll, financial analysis, and financial reporting. Responsible for assisting the CFO in carrying out the duties and responsibilities for all the technical processes of budget formulation, development, review, and execution, which entails planning, coordinating, monitoring, and controlling expenditures. Responsible to the CFO for interpretation of fiscal regulations and preparation and interpretation of financial statements. The position is responsible to the CFO for the Fiscal Service Quality Assurance, Internal audit, and functional review programs to ensure that financial policies and procedures of the medical center are being complied with and that the program is effective. Coordinates, studies, and analyzes operations of systems on a continuous basis and coordinates special analytical reports, charts, and graphs for management. The position directly supervises the Supervisory Accountant, Budget Analyst, Voucher Examiner, and Agent Cashier. Incumbent actively participates in, supports and provides training and communications supportive of all EEO program objectives and provides a role model for all customer contacts. Responsible for reviewing, analyzing, training, service support for data collection and reporting, and communication of data to services in various formats. Provides authoritative policy interpretations and functional recommendations concerning fixed and variable costs as they relate to modeling and resolves major challenges that may arise in a quality focused process system that integrates multiple, automated financial management systems. Collaborates with the CFO establishing organizational structure and guidelines, performance standards, work review, and reporting requirements and defining the line of authority and supervisory controls essential to carry out the mission of Fiscal Service. Recommends selection, evaluation, initiation of promotion, adverse, and other personnel actions for the members of the service; and selects, supervises, and coordinates activities of subordinates. The position is responsible for the following activities for employees directly supervised: leave approval, performance standards and ratings, planning and establishing all service activities. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Compressed: May be available at Supervisory Discretion. Position Description/PD#: Assistant Chief Financial Officer/PD029750 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/24/2023. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS 11) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Developing, implementing, directing and managing projects and administrative operations of a large decentralized organization; Establishing priorities and meeting deadlines for a full range of organizational activities (i.e. short- and long-range planning, determination and management of resources, budgeting, review and improvement of program activities, etc.); Experience in managing the function of work to be performed, leading, directing and assigning work of personnel. Developing local budget instructions and policies within the framework of mandatory requirements; Monitoring the operation of the data processing systems interface for information exchange between pay systems. Performing test audits to determine validity and accuracy of accounting records and application of accounting controls; Analyzing problems, gathering and coordinating information, and integrating independent recommendations and actions; Use of theory, principles, concepts and practices of financial management; experience with legislation, statutes, regulations, policies and procedures to develop policy documents; experience with concepts, principles, practices, laws and regulations which apply to budgeting for substantive programs and services. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Accounting OperationsBudget AdministrationCommunicationFinancial Management 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; religions; 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. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: Work is primarily sedentary, with walking visits to various customer locations throughout the facility. No special physical effort or ability is required. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Manchester VA Medical Center 718 Smyth Road Manchester, NH 03104 US
• Name: Sharika Graves
• Email: [email protected]