ACCOUNTANT

Clarification from the agency

All U.S. Citizens

As a ACCOUNTANT at the GS-0510-14 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Performs Financial Reporting and Overview of DHRA's reports submitted by Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) system which includes ensuring financial transactions are processed timely and accurately, reviewed and reconciled to coincide with the DoD accounting metric standards.
• Performs feeder system reconciliations of discrepancies and ensures timely correction to produce accurate financial statements.
• Serves as the primary technical interface between external auditors (including Independent Public Accounting (IPA) firms and the DoW Office of the Inspector General) and Personnel Readiness Management Agency operational leadership.
• Carries absolute responsibility for interfacing directly with auditors through all exam phases (planning, internal controls testing, substantive testing, and reporting).
• Develops and certifies the agency's annual Assertion Package for Reporting Entity assessable units, formally documenting that internal controls over financial reporting are suitably designed and operating effectively.
• Manages the life cycle of auditor inquiries and provided by client (PBC) requests.
• Coordinates formal management responses to Notifications of Finding and Recommendation (NFRs).
• Serves as the authoritative expert responsible for ensuring absolute independence and segregation of duties across organizational financial operations.
• Establishes, maintains, and executes robust internal controls testing and audit liaison functions strictly independent of the core accounting division, in full compliance with GAO Green Book standards and federal audit guidelines.
• Identifies, mitigates, and resolves structural deficiencies to safeguard internal control integrity and prevent conflicts of interest.
• Serves as a senior technical authority within the Risk and Compliance Division, executing the agency's comprehensive internal controls testing program in strict alignment with Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation (FIAR) directives, OMB Circular A-123, and the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA), while overseeing systematic control evaluations across all assessable unit (i.e., Hire-to-Retire, Order-to-Cash, Property in the Possession of Contractors (PiPoC), Procure-to-Pay, Acquire-to-Retire, and Budget-to-Report) and enterprise-wide control (i.e., Entity Level Controls, Information Technology General Controls (ITGC), and Fraud Controls) pillars to safeguard organizational financial integrity.
• Identifies, analyzes, and documents systemic control gaps and deficiencies across all audited areas, provides strategic compliance recommendations to executive leadership, and validates the completion of corrective action plans to ensure absolute compliance with the CFO Act of 1990 and FFMIA standards.
• Performs mandatory civil service oversight, technical quality reviews, and formal fiduciary acceptance of all third-party commercial contractor deliverables, methodologies, and testing workpapers across all nine assessable unit and enterprise-wide control pillars; serves as the government's validating authority to ensure contractor execution complies with federal acquisition guidelines, inherent governmental responsibilities, and agency performance standards.
• Designs, establishes, and executes the agency's in-house fraud prevention program and forensic detection architecture, leveraging advanced forensic accounting acumen and fraud examination methodologies, to proactively identify high-risk financial anomalies and strengthen internal control structures against institutional fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service http://www.sss.gov
• Resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply)
• Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
• Work Schedule: Full time
• Overtime: Occasionally
• Tour of Duty: Flexible
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Financial Disclosure: Not Required
• Telework Eligibility: This position is eligible for situational telework.

Qualifications

You may qualify at the GS-14, if you fulfill the following qualifications:

One year of specialized experience equivalent to the grade level in the Federal service:

• Planning, tracking and coordinating accounting efforts to pass an external audit.
• Coordinating with leadership and subject matter experts to coordinate and respond to prepared by client (PBC) audit requests (e.g., Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA), Independent Public Accounting (IPA), Office of the Inspector General).
• Updating and maintaining organizational end-to-end business process narratives (i.e., process control narratives).
• Managing internal testing events to ensure timely and accurate completion of internal testing deliverables.
• Demonstrating exceptional urgency, initiative, accuracy, and meticulous tracking with identifying, describing, and communicating audit and internal testing deficiencies.
• Transforming an environment from being reactive compliance driven to being dynamic, strategically driven.

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.

In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0510 series.

Basic Requirement:

1. Degree: accounting; or a degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting. The 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law. (The term "accounting" means "accounting and/or auditing" in this standard. Similarly, "accountant" should be interpreted, generally, as "accountant and/or auditor.")

   OR

2. Combination of education and experience: at least 4 years of experience in accounting, or an equivalent combination of accounting experience, college-level education, and training that provided professional accounting knowledge. The applicant's background must also include one of the following:
   1. Twenty-four semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality. This can include up to 6 hours of business law;
   2. A certificate as Certified Public Accountant or a Certified Internal Auditor, obtained through written examination; or
   3. Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in accounting or auditing, e.g., 15 semester hours, but that does not fully satisfy the 24-semester-hour requirement of paragraph A, provided that (a) the applicant has successfully worked at the full-performance level in accounting, auditing, or a related field, e.g., valuation engineering or financial institution examining; (b) a panel of at least two higher level professional accountants or auditors has determined that the applicant has demonstrated a good knowledge of accounting and of related and underlying fields that equals in breadth, depth, currency, and level of advancement that which is normally associated with successful completion of the 4-year course of study described in paragraph A; and (c) except for literal nonconformance to the requirement of 24 semester hours in accounting, the applicant's education, training, and experience fully meet the specified requirements.

*NOTE: Failure to provide transcripts may result in you being rated ineligible for this position.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

We will review your resume and supporting documents, to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. We will evaluate each applicant who meets the minimum qualifications on the information provided and evaluate your relevant work experiences as it relates to fundamental competencies, identified below, required for this position.

Competencies:

• Accountability
• Arithmetic/Mathematical Reasoning
• Attention to Detail
• Customer Service
• Decision Making
• Flexibility
• Integrity/Honesty
• Interpersonal Skills
• Learning
• Reasoning
• Self-Management
• Stress Tolerance
• Teamwork

If you meet the minimum qualifications of this position, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire Assessment. This additional online assessment is required and must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement unless you have requested Reasonable Accommodation for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Your results will be kept on record for one year when applying for future jobs that require the same USA Hire Competency Based Assessments.

A list of qualified applicants will be created and sent to the selecting official. All applicants reviewed and/or referred will receive a notification letter.

Based on the results of this evaluation, you will be placed in one of the following quality categories:

Best Qualified: This highest category will be used for those candidates who possess the type and quality of experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position, including any selective placement factors and/or appropriate quality ranking factor(s), as determined by the job analysis.
Highly Qualified: This higher category will be used for those candidates who possess the type and quality of experience that exceed the minimum qualifications of the position, including any selective placement factors and/or appropriate quality ranking factor(s) as determined by the job analysis.
Qualified: This lowest category will be used for those candidates that meet the minimum qualifications of the position, including all selective placement factors and appropriate quality ranking factor(s) and are proficient in some, but not all, of the requirements of the position. Candidates may require extensive training and/or orientation in order to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/competitive-hiring/#url=Category-Rating

Names of the candidates in the Best Qualified category will be sent first to the hiring manager for employment consideration. Applicants in other categories will be referred in accordance with category rating procedures.

Veterans Preference: If you are entitled to veterans preference, you should indicate the type of veterans' preference you are claiming on your resume. Your veterans' preference entitlement will be verified by the employing agency. If you are entitled to veterans' preference and qualified for the position, your name will be placed above non-preference candidates on a list sent to the hiring manager for employment consideration. Qualified veterans' preference eligible with a service-connected disability of 10% or more will be listed at the top of the highest quality category depending on the position and grade level of the job.
For information on entitlement seeFeds Hire Vets - Job Seekers - Veterans.

The documents you are required to submit vary based on the authority you are using to apply (i.e., applying as a veteran, applying as a current permanent Federal employee, applying as a reinstatement, etc.). Your complete application includes your COMPLETE resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further.

The following documents are REQUIRED

1. Your resume:

• IMPORTANT UPDATE: Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you will be removed from consideration for this announcement. The resume and required supporting documentation should provide the minimum qualifications and relevant experience for the announced position. Must include the work schedule, hours worked per week, dates of employment, and duties performed. If multiple resumes are submitted by an applicant, only the last resume submitted will be reviewed for qualifications and referred for selection consideration, if eligible. The resume must not be more than 5MB and should be saved and uploaded as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. Page margins should be 0.5 inches, and font styles must be legible. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text. We recommend using a font like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans.
• Additional guidance on writing a federal resume can be found at: USAJOBS Help Center - How do I write a resume for a federal job? The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started.

2. Transcripts:

• College transcript (s) required. We accept unofficial transcripts, as long as they contain your name, the name of the school, the date and degree that was awarded, and the list of classes and credits earned.

3. SF50

• All current and former civilian Federal employees must submit a copy of your MOST RECENT SF50 (Notification of Personnel Action) showing your tenure, grade and step, salary, and type of position occupied (i.e., Excepted or Competitive); or similar Notification of Personnel Action documentation, i.e., Transcript of Service, Form 1150, etc.

4. Veteran's Documents:

• If applying using veteran's preference or under a Veteran's hiring authority you must submit the following documents: DD214 showing character of service, SF-15 Form and VA letter showing final percentage, or certification of expected discharge or release from active duty.

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