The Office of Financial Management Systems (OFMS) is located within the Office of The Chief Financial Officer. OFMS is responsible for the provision and operation of all financial management systems at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). These systems automate core accounting, acquisition, travel, fee collection, planning, budget, reporting and analytical business processes. If this interests you, join USPTO as our next Senior Advisor for the OFMS!

Duties

This role is the ideal next career step for you if: You can serve as the principal advisor to OCFO executive leadership about how information technology (IT) can best fulfill financial management business needs and as a USPTO IT Product Line Lead for the Enterprise Business Product Line (EBPL) which oversees several of USPTO's mission-enabling business systems (e.g., financial, human capital, administrative, general counsel, etc.). You can oversee the resourcing of all products in the EBPL and collaborate with the Lead Product Owners (LPO) in various mission-enabling business units to formulate and justify budget requests and ensure that adjustments during the year of execution drive the highest business value in accordance with the USPTO's new ways of working. Utilize strategic thinking to make and enable high impact decisions that drive enterprise success, specifically those related to enterprise IT. You can advise the USPTO's mission-enabling executive leaders on the merits of certain technical investments, such as cloud migration, that reduce business risk related to factors like cyber-attacks, fraud, and system availability. You can establish and communicate the vision for mutually beneficial enterprise business process flow improvements through automation. Join us at the agency unleashing America's Potential! The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, Virginia. This position is telework eligible within 50-mile straight line distance of USPTO Alexandria, VA Headquarters. If selected for an interview, applicants are encouraged to discuss telework options and eligibility specific to the position in which they applied with the hiring manager.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable (www.sss.gov)
• You must meet all qualification requirements upon the closing date of this announcement.
• Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-278) will be required upon appointment.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum requirements for this position, candidates must demonstrate their experience in their narrative responses to the Professional Technical Qualifications (PTQs) questions and all narrative responses must be fully supported within their resume. *Applicants must use the USA Jobs text boxes to submit their narrative responses to the PTQs. Do not write "see resume" or "see attached documents". Each PTQ has a 10,000-character limit (to include spaces) that must be adhered to. Uploaded documents addressing the PTQs will not be accepted. Experience must have been at a sufficiently high level of difficulty to clearly show that the candidate possesses the required professional/technical qualifications set forth below. 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. Professional Technical Qualifications: Applicants must clearly demonstrate in their application materials that they possess technical attributes in the PTQs. Applicants are required to input narrative responses to the Professional Technical Qualifications (PTQs) in the text boxes as prompted by USAJobs. Each PTQ has a 10,000-character limit (to include spaces) that must be adhered to. The Professional Technical Qualifications (PTQs) for this position are: 1. Extensive experience overseeing automated business management and/or financial management systems. This includes various technologies and platforms of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom software, in order to plan, direct and assess risks of major information technology investments and performance on an ongoing basis. Experience includes an understanding of the interrelationships between business, financial, and program data and information systems consistent with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Act, Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), Federal Manager's Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA), and other legislative requirements. 2. Demonstrated experience in successfully assessing and managing IT system risks and vulnerabilities, maintaining the appropriate system security posture while balancing the needs of the business/mission, and identifying and advising corrective actions needed to secure the integrity of IT systems and data. 3. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with executives, IT delivery partners, vendors, business partners, peers, LPO's, senior agency personnel, OIG, Treasury, and OMB. This includes engaging, educating, and influencing others who do not report to you in order to evaluate priorities, manage Agile team capacity, and address automation challenges. 4. Ability to think critically and analyze automation, contracting, software, and business process improvement options and trade-offs in order to recommend automated solutions that efficiently deliver business value based on mission need and in compliance with relevant laws and regulations. Note: Submit only the documents requested. Additional documents will not be reviewed by the rating panel. Uploaded documents addressing the PTQ's will not be accepted.

Education

There is no higher educational requirement for this position.

Contacts

• Address EXRD - Office of the Chief Financial Officer Office of Human Resources Mail Stop 171 P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, VA 22313-1450 US
• Name: John Edmond
• Phone: 571-272-8479
• Email: [email protected]