Clarification from the agency

Export-Import Bank Employees Only (Current Competitive Service, Career/Career-Conditional Employees)

The incumbent serves as the Senior Internal Control Officer and as a senior internal controls officer for OCFO and EXIM, utilizing expert knowledge of internal controls, accounting, audit, and financial management principles and procedures in completing complex assignments. The incumbent collaborates with the Director to oversee the internal control compliance program. The incumbent provides mastery expertise and oversight for EXIM's and OCFO's comprehensive internal controls program, including the external audit life cycle process. The incumbent reviews, analyzes, modifies, and develops various EXIM's internal control policies, directives, procedures, and guidance to be used by headquarters and regional staff. The incumbent provides authoritative technical expertise to stakeholders at various levels concerning EXIM's internal control environment, accounting practices and financial reporting programs.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Plans, manages and executes EXIM's comprehensive financial reporting risk assessment and validations of controls over financial reporting across different business cycles, and management systems, including testing of design and effectiveness.
• Evaluates the design of internal control activities, maintains and updates key controls to ensure internal control documentation is of high-level quality. Conducts research and best practices to develop benchmarks for EXIMs compliance policies, and procedures.
  Utilizing business analytics tools, prepares, manages, tracks, and presents periodic status reports to EXIM senior management and other stakeholders, on audit status and internal controls issues and deficiencies, and discussing strategies with the Director for continuous improvement.
• Leads comprehensive analysis of EXIMs financial regulations, systems, and controls to ensure adequate protection to detect fraud, waste, and abuse and makes recommendations to senior officials on solutions and improvements. Seeks best practices from other federal agencies to consider for enhancements to EXIM's overall internal control compliance program.
• Collaborates with the Director to develop, implement, monitor and manage a robust OMB Circular No. A-123 (Appendix A) compliance program that includes planning and scoping for A-123 assessments. Documents and tests significant business processes and internal controls; transforms testing and assessment results into actionable risk mitigation strategies; monitors those risk mitigation activities; and validates their effectiveness.
• Reviews, analyzes, modifies, and develops various EXIM's internal control compliance policies, directives, procedures, and guidance.
• Prepares briefing materials for the Enterprise Risk Committee on internal controls and audit-related information; as needed, co-facilitate informational briefings and other reporting presentation requirements with the Enterprise Risk Management program manager.
• Supports the Director with overseeing and monitoring the annual Chairman's statement of assurance from various stakeholders to ensure they are completed timely, and all supporting documents are provided.
• Utilizing business analytics tools, prepares, manages, tracks, and presents periodic status reports to EXIM senior management and other stakeholders, on audit status and internal controls issues and deficiencies, and discussing strategies with the Director for continuous improvement.
• Serves as a focal point of contact for the overall audit process to include drafting and routing management's responses; managing and tracking deficiencies and corrective action plans to assure timely implementation by owners; monitoring the implementation status of audit recommendations; and coordinating quarterly reporting requirements on the status of audit recommendations. Reviews draft audit findings, prepares audit status reports and provides recommendations to the Director and EXIM senior management.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship
• Background and Security/Suitability Investigation
• Specialized experience MUST be documented on your resume
• Current or Former Political Appointees: If you are, or have been employed in the last 5 years, you must disclose this information. Failure to do so may result in disciplinary action including removal from Federal Service.

Qualifications

GS-14: You must have one (1) year of specialized experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal Government or other equivalent pay systems. Specialized experience includes:

• Experience collaborating with internal stakeholders to analyze audit reports and prepare audit responses, assessing recommendations, corrective actions and close-out memos;
• Experience testing internal controls to ensure they are designed properly and working effectively, and conducting risk assessments;
• Experience in using data analytic tools to develop reports and presentations to senior/executive leadership;
• Experience in leading informational presentations on policies, procedures, guidance and best practices; and
• Experience coordinating audit management, internal controls and compliance programs to include benchmarking management practices and processes, implementing corrective action plans, and risk management.

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How you will be evaluated

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

You will be evaluated based on how well you meet the qualifications listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualifications will be evaluated based on your application materials (e.g., resume, supporting documents) and the responses you provide on the application questionnaire.

If you are found qualified for this position and meet or exceed a predefined rating threshold from your questionnaire responses, a Subject Matter Expert (SME) will review your resume to determine if your technical competencies meet the proficiency requirements established for this position.

You will be notified by email if your application is forwarded to the hiring official for further consideration.

If you do not meet the rating threshold to move forward to the next evaluation stage or it is determined that your technical competencies do not meet the proficiency requirements for this position, you will be notified by email.

Your application package should include the following documents:

• Your Resume (applicants are required to submit a resume with job title, series/grade (if federal employee), duties and accomplishments, employer's name, starting and ending dates of employment, number of hours worked per week, and annual salary). If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete and you will not receive consideration for this position.
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• Copy of your most recent SF-50 which shows your position title, series, grade, step, salary, position occupied, and tenure to verify Time-in-Grade/competitive status. If you have previously held a higher grade and are applying based on that grade you must provide a copy of the SF-50 showing you held the higher grade and/or have promotion potential to the grade being advertised. Examples of appropriate SF50s include: Appointments, Reassignments, Within-grade/range increases or Promotion actions. NOTE: Pay adjustments and award SF-50s do not include the length of time in your current position, therefore, they are NOT acceptable SF-50's on their own. You may need to provide more than one SF-50.
• Unofficial Transcripts, if the position has an education requirement or if you are using education to qualify. If selected for the position, you must provide an official transcript before appointment.
• Proof of U.S. accreditation for foreign study, if applicable.
• Special Priority Selection rights under CTAP or ICTAP:
  • Copy of your agency notice (RIF Separation Notice, Notice of Proposed Removal, etc);
  • Copy of your most recent performance appraisal (with at least a satisfactory rating),
  • Most current SF-50 showing career/conditional tenure competitive status, position title, grade level, and duty location.
• Proof of Veteran's Preference - DD-214 (Member 4 Copy), if you are a veteran. Additionally, applicants claiming 10-point preference must complete Standard Form (SF)15, Application for 10-Point Veteran Preference, as well as additional documentation required by the SF-15, such as a VA letter, if applicable. If a DD-214 (Member Copy 4) is not available, other documentation listing the beginning and ending dates of active service and the type of discharge must be submitted to verify eligibility.
• Submission of any required documents listed in vacancy announcement, if applicable.

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