Job opening: NIC Senior Financial Officer
Salary: $139 395 - 191 900 per year
Published at: Dec 17 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Directorate for Mission Integration (MI) creates a consistent and holistic view of intelligence from collection to analysis and serves as the Director of National Intelligence's (DNI) principal advisor on all aspects of intelligence. MI integrates mission capabilities, informs enterprise resource and policy decisions, and ensures the delivery of timely, objective, accurate, and relevant intelligence.
Duties
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
The National Intelligence Council (NIC) consists of the most senior intelligence analysts supporting the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in carrying out responsibilities as the head of the Intelligence Community (IC) and as the principal adviser to the President for intelligence matters related to national security. The NIC produces a variety of all-source, IC coordinated intelligence reports, including its flagship product, the National Intelligence Estimate, which represents the Intelligence Community's most authoritative statement on a key national security issue.
Plan, prepare, justification, administration, analysis, forecasting, and monitoring of budget/financial information to ensure cost-effective support of Intelligence Community (IC) organizations and programs; oversee budget/financial data analysis and the assessment of financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.
Assist the Vice Chair of Operations in leading the seamless integration of innovation priorities and key initiatives across the National Intelligence Council.
Interpret and assess impacts of new and revised Executive or Congressional language on planned or existing resources, programs, activities, and mission; assessing effects of actions on program viability and attainment of objectives.
Collect, research, and analyze comprehensive and substantive financial information that includes budget, financial, accounting, audit, and financial reporting information to develop testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership and develop guidance on the preparation of resource requests, reports, or the like to the DNI and Congress.
Comprehensively plan, analyze, determine cost/benefit relationships, and coordinate a great variety of functions, operations, teams, or interfacing financial systems.
Potentially lead the development of complex financial analyses and provide expert advice and recommendations to senior IC customers in the context of their operations and requirements. - Develop specific objectives and devise new methods, techniques, and criteria pertaining to such matters as identifying trends and patterns, acquiring information, and analyzing data, developing solutions and presenting findings, and examining requirements for which there are no precedents.
Serve as lead NIC Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) responsible for a full range of contracting activities across the Council to include standards of conduct, acquisition planning, contract start up, contract performance, and contract changes. Prepare, review, and edit Statements of Work and Government Cost Estimate(s); draft and submit BASIS Contract Requests (BCRs); prepare and defend budget submissions and spend plan for current and/or future task orders; review and/or validate contractor invoices for payment; manage contractor FTE vacancies.
Determine the financial implications of strategic and capital, lifecycle, infrastructure planning, investment control, policy enforcement, and management throughout the financial life cycles (i.e., planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and evaluation) within or between IC organizations.
Lead or engage in the development, improvement, and implementation of financial management policies and guidelines and establish performance metrics against priorities, policies, and objectives.
Monitor and evaluate the progress and outcomes of operational performance plans and identify potential threats or opportunities.
Collaborate in the development and coordination of IC and ODNI regulations to improve and standardize financial management processes and procedures to improve the quality of financial reporting.
Continually modify long range plans in accordance with changes in Congressional and Presidential program goals; engage in the development of financial management programs, practices, processes, and activities by applying expert knowledge of strategic planning principles that incorporate the vision, mission, and strategic objectives of IC organizations.
Lead a team of professional staff and assess performance, collaborate and oversee goal setting, and provide feedback on personal development.
Qualifications
Mandatory Requirements:
Superior ability to conduct accounting, and financial reporting information; expert knowledge of financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.
Expert experience establishing and maintaining professional networks with all levels of management both internal and external to the ODNI.
Superior ability to work effectively with teams, build and sustain professional relationships, exert influence effectively at all levels across the IC.
Superior strategic and tactical planning, critical thinking, and analytical skills in order to propose innovative solutions and implement change with resourcefulness and creativity.
Superior organizational, managerial, and leadership skills and ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining a high level of attention to detail;
Superior ability to work effectively with ODNI's leaders in a highly active, fast-paced, and demanding organization.
Bachelor's degree
Desired Requirements:
Expert knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices, laws, and regulations of financial management, budgeting, accounting, or auditing sufficient to conduct difficult assignments involving interfaces and inter-relationships between and among programs, systems, functions, policies, and various issues and relationships between the IC and ODNI organizational elements, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congress
Extensive knowledge of mission area daily operational topics, capabilities, and strategic intent, as well as project management concepts and principles.
Superior ability to plan, organize, schedule, and prioritize the organizational staff work load.
COTR Level II Certification.
Education
Bachelor's degree
Contacts
- Address NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL
Director Of National Intelligence
Washington, DC 20511
US
- Name: Vacancy Team ODNI
- Email: [email protected]
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