The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is the primary Federal regulator for the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and is responsible for the regulations and implementation of the non-public database of ownership and/or effective control of firms (i.e. beneficial ownership) pursuant to the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). FinCEN safeguards the financial system from illicit use, combats money laundering, and promotes national security through the strategic use of financial authorities.

Duties

The duty location will be in Washington DC or Vienna, VA. Develop and manage a staff of analytic managers and senior and junior analysts, identify objectives, and set division-wide strategy for conducting research and analysis on highly complex illicit finance targets. Lead and oversee development and deployment of a variety of data analysis techniques, including making strategic use of technology tools to identify and/or target complex illicit finance threats. Direct staff in developing analytic products for a range of stakeholders, including government and private sector stakeholders. Direct staff in conceptualizing, planning, drafting, editing, and presenting FinCEN analytic products. Ensure coordination of FinCEN analytical products with other stakeholders and analytic partners and encourage analytic exchanges and joint products and briefings to the extent possible. Represent the Department of the Treasury and FinCEN in senior-level internal, interagency, international, and public meetings and working groups on a range of illicit finance-related matters as well as other Treasury- and FinCEN-related issues that may require access to classified documents or access to secured space. Effectively handle personnel matters relating to the Division. These matters include, but are not limited to, annual evaluation, training and mentoring, developing performance standards and metrics, and evaluating employees. Provide input on technology and budget matters.

Requirements

Qualifications

As a basic requirement, applicants must possess the Mandatory Technical Qualifications and Executive Competencies listed below. Typically, qualified applicants will have gained experience of this nature at or above the GS-15 grade level or its equivalent in the public or private sector. To be qualified for this position, your resume must reflect experience in a managerial capacity. Typically, experience of this nature is gained at or above the GS-15 grade level in the Federal Service, or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or nongovernmental organizations. As such, your resume must demonstrate that you have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully fulfill responsibilities inherent in most SES positions such as: Directing the work of an organizational unit; Ensuring the success of one or more specific major programs or projects; Monitoring progress toward strategic organizational goals, evaluating organizational performance and taking action to improve performance; and Supervising the work of other managers and exercising important policy-making, or other executive functions. Failure to meet the basic qualification requirement and address all Mandatory Technical Competency and Executive Core Qualification factors will result in your application being disqualified. EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): The ECQs were designed to assess executive experience and potential, not technical expertise. They measure whether an individual has the broad executive skills needed to succeed in a variety of SES positions. All applicants must submit a written narrative to address the ECQs. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately and should contain at least two examples per ECQ describing your experiences and accomplishments/results. The narrative should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities, and scope. It should highlight the complexity of programs managed, programs accomplished, and policy Initiatives undertaken, as well as the results of your actions. Applicants should not enter "Refer to Resume" to explain your answer. The narrative must not exceed 10 pages. NOTE: Current career SES members, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and SES Candidate Development Program graduates who have been certified by OPM do NOT need to address the ECQs: Leading Change: This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, as well as the ability to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. Competencies: creativity and innovation, external awareness, flexibility, resilience, strategic thinking, vision. Leading People: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. Competencies: conflict management, leveraging diversity, developing others, team building. Results Driven: This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. Competencies: accountability, customer service, decisiveness, entrepreneurship, problem solving, technical credibility. Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources. Competencies: financial management, human capital management, technology management. Building Coalitions: This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Competencies: partnering, political savvy, influencing/negotiating. Fundamental Competencies: These competencies are the foundation for success in each of the Executive Core Qualifications: interpersonal skills, oral communication, continual learning, written communication, integrity/honesty, public service motivation. The Fundamental Competencies are crosscutting and should be addressed over the course of each ECQ narrative. Applicants should follow the Challenge, Context, Action, and Result (CCAR) model outlined in the guide. Challenge - Describe a specific problem or goal. Context - Describe the individuals and groups you worked with, and/or the environment in which you worked, to address a particular challenge (e.g., clients, co-workers, members of Congress, shrinking budget, low morale). Action - Discuss the specific actions you took to address a challenge. Result - Give specific examples of measures/outcomes that had some impact on the organization. These accomplishments should demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of your leadership skills. Additional information about the SES and Executive Core Qualifications can be found on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) SES Website. You are strongly encouraged to review OPMs Guide to SES Qualifications for specific examples and guidance on writing effective ECQ narrative statements. MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): All applicants must fully address each of the following MTQs individually in a narrative format, not to exceed one page per MTQ. In addition to the qualifying experience, applicants must possess the mandatory technical qualifications that represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position. Experience serving as an analyst or overseeing development of analytic work products, conducting research and analysis and employing a variety of data analysis techniques to support both tactical and strategic analysis, and communicating findings in both written products and oral briefings to a variety of audiences. Experience managing an analytic program, including identifying objectives and setting strategy for conducting research and analysis in response to a variety of demands; conceptualizing and implementing a standardized analytical product line; ensuring the program's analytic presentations are clear, consistent, concise, timely, relevant, and accurate. Experience representing an organization externally at a senior or executive level, with a wide range of counterparts, briefing analytics findings, and coordinating analytical products and product lines.

Education

This position does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Administrative and Resources Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Sue Rhodes
• Email: [email protected]