This Financial Systems Analyst is located in Office of Budget, Finance, and Award Management (BFA), Division of Financial Management (DFM). The primary purpose of the position is to manage a significant financial system program or function related to the development, implementation, and maintenance of the Foundation's financial system using Oracle Federal Financials Release 12 and internal and external interfaces.

Duties

As a Financial System Analyst,you will perform the following duties: Manage projects through all life cycle phases and ensure all project deliverables are developed and maintained. Develop or coordinate the development of project documentation and plans; including project schedules, risk management plans, communication and change management plans. Conduct project risk assessments and makes recommendations to senior management in mitigating project risks. Align project deliverables with strategic business goals and priorities and develops business case for expending Foundation-wide resources toward the design, development, and implementation of a core financial system and interfaces. Design and maintain accounting code structures of the Foundation's core financial system and ensures that they meet requirements established by NSF, OMB, and Department of Treasury. Design and/or provide guidance in the design of the chart of accounts of the financial management system in accordance with the Standard General Ledger (SGL) at the transaction level. Develop change management strategies to transition stakeholders from the current financial systems environment to future system environment. Analyze business processes and develop approaches to streamline business processes and address financial management issues. Troubleshoots and analyzes complex and critical issues related to financial management systems and provides solutions and procedures for issue resolution. Conduct research on new systems requirements set forth by OMB, Department of Treasury, GAO, and other regulatory and oversight organizations. Training end users on new and existing financial system functionality and reporting. Perform system assurance activities to ensure the financial system is functioning as intended. These activities include batch job monitoring, system reconciliations and reconciliations between financial system and business systems that send financial data. Lead, develop, and execute data clean up strategies and tactical plans to clean up data in the core financial system and interfaces. Participate in the planning and evaluation of a financial management system and reporting applications. Lead and coordinate the implementation of new technology initiatives, such as Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning and Block Chain (Distributed Ledger). Lead cross-functional requirements sessions with system users to develop and/or evaluate functional and technical requirements for the maintenance, upgrade, enhancements and/or replacement of the core financial systems and its interfaces. Translate functional requirements to system specifications. Develop and execute testing plans and scenarios. Lead, develop and execute data conversion strategies to migrate legacy data from current financial system to the new core financial system. Lead efforts to conduct data quality assessments to determine the health and quality of data in the core financial system and data coming from feeder systems into the core system. Make recommendations to senior management on data clean up strategies, priorities in data clean up, and work with policy lead in DFM to develop policies and procedures to ensure strong data governance over financial data. Provide input into financial system policies and develop procedures for the Foundation's core financial system and its interfaces; and work in partnership with the DFM Senior Policy Advisor to incorporate financial system policies and procedures into DFM's overall policies and procedures framework. Coordinate with DFM Senior Policy Advisor NSF's response to Government-wide exposure drafts on new financial systems policies and procedures. Maintain communication with control agencies (OMB, Treasury, GSA, FASAB, and GAO) regarding changes to Federal financial systems policies and procedures. Oversee or conduct reviews of the Foundation's core financial system and its interfaces to ensure compliance with FFMIA, FISMA, Clinger Cohen, GAO, OMB Circulars, A-123 Appendix D and A-130 and other applicable laws and regulations and to support management's annual assurance statement on financial systems compliance.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify at the GS-14 level, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 Level in the Federal service (or comparable level of experience outside the federal service) performing ALL of the following duties: Demonstrated experience in implementing and maintaining a Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) financial system (e.g.. Oracle R12, SAP, CGI Momentum, etc). Examples of implementing a financial system include: Developing and documenting requirements; conducting requirements and design sessions; developing and executing test plans, developing and executing change management strategies including training; and closing out projects. Demonstrated experience in managing two or more projects while utilizing project management practices and tools to organize, manage and communicate project statuses for all or part of a project's life-cycle (e.g. initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing). Demonstrated experience evaluating financial data and business objectives and processes, identifying potential issues and recommending solutions. Experience refers to paid/unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) & other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, & skills & can provide valuable training/experience that translates directly to paid work. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

Education may enhance skills required for this position; however, no substitution of education for specialized experience may be made at this level.

Contacts

• Address NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, DIVISION OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 2415 Eisenhower Ave Alexandria, VA 22314 US
• Name: Staffing and Classification Branch
• Email: [email protected]