Job opening: Auditor
Salary: $139 395 - 181 216 per year
Published at: May 22 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located in the US International Development Finance Corporation's Office of Financial and Portfolio Management (OFPM). OFPM is a support organization and provides critical services to DFC that enable the agency to meet its mission goals. The incumbent serves as the Internal Controls Auditor with responsibility for ensuring internal controls governing all financial and administrative operations within DFC are designed and operating effectively and problems are resolved.
Duties
As an Auditor, you will:
-Serve as a DFC expert on internal controls, both financial and operational, with responsibility for monitoring the agency's internal control program and assessing the design and operating effectiveness of the agency's internal controls.
-Conduct agency-wide assessments of internal controls and develop and advise on policies, procedures, and strategies that advance the maturity of the internal control program.
-Identify areas of risk associated with the control of DFC's programs and financial statements.
-Assess, resolve, and provide recommendations on how to resolve internal control findings, including appropriately determining the level of severity for each finding in accordance with federal guidance.
-Perform and/or oversee audit follow-up and liaise with the Board's Audit Committee and, external and/or internal auditors (as applicable).
-Oversees efforts or task forces to complete studies and special projects related to internal controls which may require the coordination of research across DFC departments.
-Assemble information and prepares a variety of unique and recurring reports related to DFC internal controls for both internal and external dissemination.
-Coordinates the Risk and Control Assessment Team (RCAT), the bodies that institutionalize DFC's internal controls program across agency management.
Please Note: This is a Bargaining unit position represented by AFGE, local 1534.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or National
- Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
- Must submit resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply)
- Suitability for Federal employment, as determined by a background investigation
- May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
- Within 30 days of your start date, you will be required to file a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450)
Qualifications
Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level). Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements no later than the closing date of this announcement.
TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b).
BASIC REQUIREMENT
A. Degree: auditing; or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, public administration or accounting;
OR
B. Combination of education and experience: at least 4 years of experience in Performance Auditing, or an equivalent combination of performance auditing experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional auditing knowledge. The applicant's background must also include one of the following:
1. A certificate as a Certified Internal Auditor or a Certified Public Accountant, obtained through written examination; or
2. Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in auditing or accounting, e.g., 15 semester hours.
AND
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT
In addition to the Basic Requirement listed above, you must meet the required specialized experience listed below.
You may qualify at the GS-14 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirements: A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service that demonstrates your experience in all of the following:
1. Experience in assessing the design and operating effectiveness of financial and operational internal controls for an organization;
2. Experience identifying areas of risk associated with the management of programs and financial statements;
3. Experience analyzing and evaluating internal control findings to determine level of severity and formulate recommendations to existing policies and procedures; and
4. Experience assembling information and preparing reports related to internal controls for internal and/or external dissemination.
Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level.
Please Note: Applicants may be asked to perform a work simulation during the interview stage. Work sample tests require applicants to perform tasks or work activities that mirror the tasks employees perform on the job.
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; religious; 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.
This position is being advertised concurrently with vacancy announcement 24-OFPM-DE-12407424-KM using Delegated Examining (DE) procedures. If interested, refer to that announcement to determine if you meet DE requirements and can apply to that announcement. NOTE: You must apply separately to each announcement in order to be considered under both.
This announcement may be used to fill similar positions, if additional vacancies occur.
Education
ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY?
You
MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
PASS/FAIL COURSES:
If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.
GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Contacts
- Address International Development Finance Corporation
1100 New York Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20527
US
- Name: Keli Martin
- Phone: 2029899726
- Email: [email protected]
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