Clarification from the agency

This position is open to current FDIC permanent employees with competitive status eligibility.

• Manages a portfolio of audits and evaluations under the broad direction and review of the Assistant Inspector General. Leads and/or participates in initiatives to improve the office's operational efficiency and effectiveness. Supports policy and procedure development by providing input on design and periodic updates and suggesting process improvements. Assists AIG in keeping assignment inventory up-to-date to reflect current and emerging risk areas. Works collaboratively with other managers and the AIG to make staffing decisions for individual assignments and projects.

• Ensures staff perform high-quality work and produce timely reports based on reliable evidence, sound analysis, logical reasoning, and critical thinking. Sets performance expectations with staff, provides feedback and coaching, and prepares annual performance assessments. Supervises all aspects of the assignment management process, including planning, fieldwork and reporting.  Ensures work is completed in accordance with OIG policies and procedures and Government Auditing Standards or Quality Standards for Inspection and Evaluation  Ensures assignments are appropriately planned to sufficiently answer objectives and minimize assignment risk. Evaluates the sufficiency and appropriateness of evidence. Helps teams assess audit results, develop report message, identify corrective actions, and determine how findings should be presented in the report to best convey results.  Ensures that reports comport with applicable standards, OIG style requirements, and align with stakeholder expectations.  Ensures teams develop recommendations on needed improvements and alerts senior management to situations requiring prompt decisions or attention.
• Establishes and maintains open lines of communication and effective relationships with internal and external customers and stakeholders. Represents the OIG in meetings with FDIC officials to communicate results of reviews and recommendations for improvements, and to ascertain their perspectives. Supports the OIG follow up process by reviewing and determining whether corrective actions completed address report recommendations. Stays abreast of emerging issues.

Conditions of employment

Completion of Confidential Financial Disclosure may be required.

High Risk Position – Background Investigation (BI) required.

Qualifications

Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. 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. Additional qualifications information can be found here.

Basic Requirements for a Performance Auditor:

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.

In addition to the Basic Requirements, the applicant must have the following specialized experience:

Candidates must have at least 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the grade 13 in the Federal Service. For this position, specialized experience is leading multiple complex performance, operational, or financial evaluations and audits consistent with Quality Standards for Inspection and Evaluation and generally accepted Government Auditing Standards.

Applicants must have met the qualification requirements (including selective placement factors - if any) for this position within 30 calendar days of the closing date of this announcement.

There is no substitution of education for the experience for this position.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your resume and the online assessment questionnaire will be reviewed, to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements outlined in this announcement. Therefore, it is imperative that your resume contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make the qualification determination.

Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level. 

The competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) you will be assessed on are listed below. Top ranked candidates will be referred to the selecting official for further review and consideration.

• Knowledge of professional auditing, accounting, and evaluation concepts, principles, and techniques.

• Knowledge of the Inspector General Act and its Amendments, including statutory responsibilities for conducting and following up on audits, and other Inspector General responsibilities.

• Ability to develop new techniques and extend current knowledge and theory in order to evaluate and recommend improvement of related activities of the Corporation.

• Knowledge of Government Auditing Standards, including knowledge of the audit process and measurement techniques for audit performance.

• Knowledge of CIGIE’s Inspection and Evaluation Standards.

• Knowledge of management techniques, personnel, training and productivity programs.

• Ability in performance audits, financial and compliance concepts, and fiscal control and systems concepts; and evaluating the presentation of recommendations in both written and oral communications.

• Skill in organizing, conducting and reporting on research and analysis projects.

• Ability to manage people, including interacting with and responding to others; providing clear expectations for the work and behavior of others, giving constructive feedback, and following up to ensure that performance is on track; providing opportunities, guidance and feedback to help others enhance their knowledge, skills, and abilities.

• Ability to produce written and verbal audit reports and presentations within short time frames to communicate findings and identify problems clearly, concisely, and effectively.

You do not need to respond separately to these KSAs. Your answers to the online questionnaire and resume will serve as responses to the KSAs.