Job opening: Auditor
Salary: $139 395 - 181 216 per year
Published at: Nov 18 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).
-Oversee 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.
-Coordinate 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
Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements no later than the closing date of this announcement.
BASIC REQUIREMENT
A. Degree: auditing; or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, public administration or accounting.
OR
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:
A certificate as a Certified Internal Auditor or a Certified Public Accountant, obtained through written examination; or
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:
1) Experience conducting internal control reviews and assessments for business processes, excluding information technology, in an organization (e.g., preparation of control narratives, performance of walk-throughs of internal controls, flowcharting of controls, identification of key controls, sampling of transaction data, and preparation and performance of tests of effectiveness);
2) Experience assessing the internal controls and identifying areas of financial and/or operational risk for a lending program (e.g., Financial Accounting Standards Board's Current Expected Credit Losses, Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, etc.);
3) Experience analyzing and evaluating internal control findings to determine level of severity and formulate recommendations for corrective actions to resolve deficiencies;
4) Experience performing organization wide risk assessments to identify business processes requiring further reviews; AND
5) Experience assembling information and preparing reports related to internal controls for senior leaders and/or external auditors.
Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level.
Please Note: Applicants may be asked to produce a writing sample during the interview stage.
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 25-OFPM-12589094-KM using Merit Promotion (MP) procedures. If interested, refer to that announcement to determine if you meet MP 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 is education acquired outside of any State of the U.S., the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or any territory or possession of the U.S. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification and/or eligibility requirements, you must submit a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency (a U.S. private organization's interpretation that such education has been deemed at least equivalent to conventional U.S. education programs or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university)
with your application in order to receive credit for that education. (Foreign education transcripts will not be accepted). For more information regarding evaluation of foreign education for federal employment, please visit the U.S. Department of Education webpage on the
Recognition of Foreign Qualifications. All transcripts must be in English or include an English translation.
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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