Clarification from the agency

Open to current Department of Justice employees with competitive status.

As Deputy Controller, you will:

• Serve as a key advisor and consultant to the Controller in the planning and administration of the Division's financial and budget execution functions.
• Provide the administrative and technical supervision necessary for accomplishing Finance Group's expansive portfolio of work.
• Communicate the strategic plan, mission, vision, and values of Division and Finance Group leadership and ensure their integration into the unit's strategies, objectives, work plans, deliverables, and services.
• Coordinate and formulate current and long-range financial planning and analysis data, including forecasts.
• Analyze and recommend solutions to current and anticipated budget execution issues and challenges involving diverse programmatic requirements.
• Lead teams in creating, analyzing, and presenting various reports including obligation rates, accounting data, expenditures, travel data, and personnel expenses.
• Participate in discussions and decisions on requests for new funding, change in type of funding, and reprogramming.
• Supervise the review and implementation of Division, Agency, and Federal policies and regulations to ensure compliance and consistently produce clean audit results.
• Provide draft policy and written technical guidance to be issued as regulations, guides, or instructions.
• Oversee all required reporting and auditing as required.
• Use initiative, judgement, and originality to research and interpret national policy and legislation, keep abreast of new developments in technology, and recommend changes to FG methods and procedures accordingly.
• Represent Finance Group interests at Departmental working groups, task forces, and expert panels on special projects or studies of considerable scope and depth critical to the resolution of finance issues.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to qualify for this position.
• You must undergo a pre-employment security investigation.
• Selective Service Registration is required, as applicable.
• You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
• You must meet status eligibility for this announcement.
• Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required to have federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.
• This position has supervisory responsibilities. A one-year supervisory probationary period is required upon selection. This may be waived if you have already successfully completed the supervisory probationary period.
• A one-year probationary period may be required.
• The Criminal Division participates in the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program. E-Verify helps employers to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. For more information, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.

Qualifications

To qualify at the GS-15 level, applicants must have one year of specialized experience at, or equivalent to, the GS-14 federal grade level. Examples of specialized experience include: providing short and long-range finance, accounting, and budgetary guidance to organizational leadership; establishing, analyzing, and evaluating financial operating plans for current and future years; reviewing and implementing changes in federal laws, regulations, procedures, and other guidance to revise organizational guidance and policies; and negotiating in the resolution of potentially controversial finance issues.

Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements for consideration by the closing date of this announcement.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine whether you meet the job qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are basically qualified for this job, you will be invited to complete a structured interview. The structured interview will assess the following competencies:

• Accountability
• Conflict Management
• Developing Others
• Oral Communication
• Problem Solving
• Strategic Thinking

You are strongly encouraged to convert your resume to an Adobe PDF file prior to submitting your application, especially if you are submitting using a Mac system. Resumes not pre-converted to a PDF file will undergo conversion by the system. This conversion process may cause some formatting changes to your resume, including line and page break errors. To ensure your submitted resume does not display with formatting issues, please submit your resume as a PDF. This error does not affect USAjobs resumes.

To apply for this position, you must provide a complete application package which includes:

1. Resume (cover letter is optional) - Applicants will be evaluated based on a comparison of the position requirements against the quality and extent of experience or related education as reflected in their resume. Applicants are encouraged to ensure work experiences clearly show the possession of knowledge of the subject matter pertinent to the position and the technical skills to successfully perform the duties of the position. Your resume must be no more than 2 pages. If more than 2 pages are submitted, only the first 2 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications. Please ensure all information you believe is qualifying for the position is contained in the first two pages, or you may be marked ineligible. Additionally, your resume must include the following information for each job listed: month and year, start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008), and full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week).
2. SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action (if applying as a status candidate with current or former federal service) which shows type of service appointment, tenure group, grade, and salary. If you are applying for a higher grade, please provide the SF-50 Form which shows the length of time you have been in your current/highest grade (examples of appropriate SF-50s include Promotions, Within Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s over one year old).
3. Most Recent Performance Appraisal (if applicable).
4. Any Relevant Performance Award (must attach SF-50)(if applicable).
5. Documentation of Eligibility for Special Hiring Authorities (if applicable) to prove appointment eligibility. Examples include: Schedule A disability letter, Peace Corps volunteer letter, military spouse hiring authority documentation, etc.
6. Current or Former Political Appointees (if applicable) - Please note on your resume and attach an SF-50. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, or Non-Career SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the HR Office.
7. Schedule A Documentation (if applicable) - The Criminal Division welcomes and encourages applications from persons with disabilities and is firmly committed to satisfying its affirmative obligations under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to ensure that persons with disabilities have every opportunity to be hired and advanced on the basis of merit within the Department. The Criminal Division also encourages eligible Schedule A applicants to submit their resumes directly to the Criminal Division disability POC at crm.schedulea@usdoj.gov.
8. CTAP Documentation (if applicable) - If you are a displaced Federal employee claiming eligibility under CTAP:
   • You must submit your separation notice or agency RIF letter from your agency.
   • If you have not yet been separated, you can provide the letter of intent to separate you from the agency because of reduction-in-force.
   • See USAJOBS' Career Transition Programs for more information.

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