This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO). The Financial Systems Modernization (FSM) initiative is a key DHS strategy to achieve compliant financial management (FM) services and optimize FM operations across the diverse DHS systems. OCFO ensures the funds necessary to carry out the Department's mission are obtained, allocated, and spent in support of the Department's priorities and in accordance with law and policies.

Duties

The Director Financial Systems Modernization serves as principal and expert advisor to the CFO on all matters related to Financial Systems Modernization (FSM) regarding the deployment, integration, and sustainment of integrated mission-essential enterprise financial, acquisition and asset management systems. The Director is responsible for goals including enabling OMB regulatory compliance, maintaining system security, correcting current program-specific audit issues, enhancing internal controls, improving integration with feeder systems, standardizing processes and data, and enhancing management oversight. Specific responsibilities include: Managing the overall program and project plan, budget, task descriptions, and earned value management to include estimates and a work breakdown schedule, monitor project performance, and associated deliverables. Planning and managing complex IT projects involving interrelated disciplines and multiple stages of the systems development lifecycle. Developing comprehensive project plans, budget requirements, task descriptions, and work breakdown structures to accomplish program/project requirements. Duties include the following: Overseeing the program from development to implementation, ensuring adherence to cost, schedule, and performance; Coordinating all associated DHS activities related to the Financial Systems Modernization (FSM) program; Ensuring consistent acquisition execution; Serving on technical committees. Overseeing sustainment efforts for systems deployed by the Financial Systems Modernization (FSM) program. Evaluating post-implementation support requirements and modify them based on emerging mission and business requirements. Developing service level agreements (SLAs) that define requirements and expectations for delivering customer support services. Incorporating Business Intelligence into the Financial Systems Modernization (FSM) program to provide historical, current, and predictive views of financial operations. Coordinating the governance needs of the program, including interactions with the Acquisition Review Board, Executive Steering Committee, and DHS component organizations. Ensuring that modernized DHS financial management systems adhere to federal accounting standards and meet federal financial audit and internal control requirements, including those promulgated by the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Government Accountability Office. Applying comprehensive and expert professional knowledge and understanding of management concepts and practices; lifecycle management policies and procedures; Earned Value Management (EVM), Return on Investment (ROI), cost and resource analysis; and their application to major programs for improving the management of IT. Manage, direct, and formulate strategies to substantiate business process improvements and reduce or eliminate usage of inefficient systems, processes, and programs. Applying expert professional knowledge of computer hardware/software technologies and experience in IT applications; database administration principles and information sharing techniques; research and analysis of technology programs issues and program requirements; ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing; and experience collecting, analyzing, and integrating complex information to develop options or logical conclusions for difficult issues. Direct and execute organizational improvement and information management programs.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You may be required to undergo periodic drug testing.
• You must be able to obtain/maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Selectee will be required to complete form OGE-278, Executive Personnel Financial Disclosure Form.
• You will serve a one-year probationary period unless you previously completed the probationary period in the SES.
• You must submit to a pre-employment drug test.

Qualifications

As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, applicants must provide evidence of progressively responsible executive leadership and supervisory experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under Executive Core Qualifications and Technical Qualifications listed below. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at or above the GS-14/15 grade level in the federal service or its equivalent in the private sector. As such, your resume should 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; Supervising the work of employees; and Exercising important policymaking, policy determining, or other executive functions. The application process used to recruit for this position is RESUME-BASED Method. The applicant must address the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) and Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) within their resume. Resumes must not exceed five (5) pages. We recommend that your resume emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of the programs managed, and your program accomplishments, including the results of your actions. You will be evaluated to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications required of the position and on the extent your application demonstrates that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position. Please be sure to give concrete examples of your experience and demonstrate the complexity of the knowledge you possess. EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): YOUR RESUME MUST CLEARLY DOCUMENT AND DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs) EVIDENCE WITHIN YOUR RESUME NOT TO EXCEED FIVE PAGES: ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE. This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, 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. Leadership Competencies: Creativity & Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, Vision. ECQ 2 - 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. Leadership Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others, Team Building. ECQ 3 - 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. Leadership Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Technical Credibility. ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN. This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Leadership Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Technology Management. ECQ 5 - 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. Leadership Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy, Influencing/Negotiating. Detailed information on each ECQ, the underlying and fundamental competencies, sample narratives and a tips sheet for writing effective ECQs are available in the "Guide To Senior Executive Service Qualifications" Senior Executive Service Executive Core Qualifications and Senior Executive Service Qualifications & Fundamental-Competencies. TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (TQ)s: IN ADDITON, YOU WILL BE EVALUATED ON ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQs): Your responses to the TQs should be embedded/addressed within your resume, not to exceed five pages. TQ 1. Demonstrated experience managing financial systems and ensuring that such systems are compliant and capable of providing the necessary financial information to facilitate decision-making and improving program management. TQ 2. Demonstrated experience with managing complex IT projects involving interrelated disciplines and multiple stages of development lifecycle, developing comprehensive project plans, budget requirements, and task descriptions to accomplish program/project requirements. TQ 3. Demonstrated experience directing complex, technical, and sensitive IT, budget, and fiscal policy programs and briefing senior level officials on problems and causes while developing practical solutions. NOTE: Your demonstrated leadership ability and the evidence of the ECQs and TQs must be clearly shown in your resume. A separate narrative statement will not be accepted. A sample 5-page resume that incorporates ECQs and TQs can be viewed on this link (indexed at page 29 - 37) http://www.opm.gov/ses/references/GuidetoSESQuals_2012.pdf. YOU WILL BE ELIMINATED FROM FURTHER CONSIDERATION IF YOU FAIL TO MEET OR FULLY ADDRESS EACH MANDATORY EXECUTIVE CORE AND TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS AND IF YOUR RESUME EXCEEDS FIVE (5) PAGES. Veteran's Preference does not apply to the Senior Executive Service. Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize any employment offers made to current or former (within the last 5 years) political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES employees in the Executive Branch. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES employee, please indicate this in your resume. Serving in a Schedule A, Schedule C, or Noncareer SES appointment WILL NOT eliminate you from consideration.

Education

There is no educational requirement for this position.

Contacts

• Address Department of Homeland Security Headquarters OCHCO/HRMS/MS #0170 6595 Springfield Center Drive Springfield, VA 20598-0170 US
• Name: Quera Smith
• Email: [email protected]