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Deputy Director J8 and Director of Financial Improvement/Audit Remediation

Department of Defense
Defense Logistics Agency
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Summary

Please see Additional Information section under Requirements for a summary of this position.

Overview

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Hiring complete
Open & closing dates
02/07/2022 to 03/07/2022
Salary
$158,541 to - $196,000 per year
Pay scale & grade
ES 00
Location
1 vacancy in the following location:
Fort Belvoir, VA
Telework eligible
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Travel Required
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocation expenses reimbursed
Yes—Permanent Change of Station (PCS) expenses will be paid in accordance with the Joint Travel Regulation (JTR).
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Senior Executive
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
Supervisory status
Yes
Security clearance
Sensitive Compartmented Information
Drug test
Yes
Announcement number
DLAJ8-22-11383854-SES
Control number
635788800

Duties

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  • Is delegated full authority and responsibility for planning, formulating, justifying, and executing Program Objectives Memorandum and budget programs/processes for the effective control and utilization of over $40 billion annually supporting DLA.
  • The Executive has full authority to make a broad range of executive decisions in the role of Budget Officer that impact virtually every major agency program.
  • Advises the Director, DLA Finance on all matters related to strategic resource planning for the entire spectrum of the DLA operational mission and financial requirements.
  • Leads the DLA Audit remediation efforts, supporting the DoD Consolidated Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation efforts.
  • Serves as the Agency?s Chief Executive for Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation (FIAR)
  • Leads and oversees the integration of DLA/OUSD(C) audit activities, financial management improvement initiatives, Project Plan Oversight, and DLA audit aligned remediation efforts.
  • Serves as SES in charge of DLA financial statement audit support to the DoD enterprise by providing leadership regarding the auditing and creation of the three Agency Financial Reports, as well as input to the DoD-wide consolidated audit.
  • Serves as primary liaison with the Department?s Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretaries for Financial Management in the Military Departments and leads the DLA Audit Senior Steering Committee.
  • Collaboratively leads audit support and remediation efforts across DLA, with our customers, with our Independent Public Accounting firms, DoD Inspector General, and other stakeholders ensuring DLA achieves the Department?s audit goals
  • Represents the Agency in the Departmental Budget Officers' forums where DLA budget policies, programs, and philosophies are developed.
  • Decisions are made regarding resource usage within the Department considering national defense issues and appropriate trade-offs within the Department's top line budget authority.
  • Guides the Agency's resource requirements through the Department, Office of Management and Budget and the Congress through attendance at high-level budget hearings and testimony before Congressional committees.
  • Serves as DLA's principal liaison with Appropriation Committees and collaborates closely with DLA Congressional Affairs to work Authorization and DoD-wide issues.
  • Aligns and ensures there are available resources. Provides DLA Director, Vice Director, and the Director, DLA Finance recommendations regarding acquisition challenges that could negatively affect the Agency?s capability to meet mission requirements.
  • Delegated full authority and responsibility to develop, coordinate, integrating, and execute financial management policies, programs, and processes for the effective utilization of over $40 billion annually in support of DLA mission requirements.
  • Serves as the Agency?s key spokesperson regarding financial management matters with the Department, the Services, the Office of Management and Budget, General Accounting Office, other Executive Agencies and Congress.
  • The Executive ensures DLA is compliant with all legislation pertaining to financial reporting.
  • The Executive is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic financial goals and all actions required for the Agency to achieve and sustain DLA financial statement auditability.
  • Assists the Director, DLA Finance in guiding and overseeing Agency business systems modernization efforts to ensure compliance with Federal and Departmental financial architecture and system requirements and standards.
  • In collaboration with the Director, DLA Finance, the Executive serves as the financial authority regarding DLA?s acquisition investments. The Executive?s decisions are critical to ensure state-of-the-art business systems to support the Warfighter.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • Permanent Change of Station (PCS) Expenses: Authorized
  • Relocation (Government Home Sale) Expenses: Not Authorized
  • Work Schedule: Full Time
  • Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
  • Overtime Work: Occasionally
  • Temporary Duty (TDY) Travel: Occasionally
  • Security Requirements: Special Sensitive with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)
  • Drug Testing Designated Position: Yes
  • Fair Labor Standards Act: Exempt
  • Bargaining Unit Position: No
  • Financial Filing Statement: Required, Executive Branch Personnel Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-278)
  • Emergency Essential: No
  • Reemployed Annuitant: Does not meet criteria The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/1400.25-V300.pdf
  • For an explanation of the conditions of employment, please review the definitions at: https://www.dla.mil/portals/104/documents/careers/GenAppInfoDef.pdf
  • All newly appointed career SES members must sign the Reassignment Rights and Obligation Agreement as a condition of appointment into the SES in accordance with DoD Directive 1403.03
  • Selected candidate will be subject to a two-year probationary period in the Senior Executive Service unless required probationary period has been served
  • This position requires DoD Financial Management Level 3 certification within 2 years in accordance with DoD Instruction 1300.26, DoD Directive 5118.03 and section 1599d of Title 10, U.S.C. Once obtained, you must maintain and improve proficiency.

Qualifications

Eligibility for this position will be based on clear and comprehensive showing that the applicant has had experience of the scope and quality sufficient to carry out the duties and assignments of the position. Additionally, applicants must possess the essential skills, knowledge, and abilities listed in the Executive Core Qualifications and Technical Qualifications paragraphs below.

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs)

  1. Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
  2. Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
  3. Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
  4. Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.
  5. Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.
In addition, DoD requires the Enterprise Perspective: The ability to apply a broad point of view and an understanding of individual or organizational responsibilities in relation to DoD or government-wide strategic priorities is required. Executives must demonstrate ability to work with internal and external partners to support national security objectives. This perspective is typically gained through a variety of diverse work experiences. A separate narrative statement is not required. This information should be embedded within the application package (Resume, Technical Qualifications and Executive Core Qualifications).

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQs):
  1. Extensive knowledge of financial management, risk management, and audit principles, theories, standards, and management systems.
  2. Ability to manage unusual instability and the need for constant revision to agency plans, programs, and operations, including emergent and changing priorities of the Military Services. Includes ability for persuasion, negotiation, diplomacy, and risk assessment to address rapidly changing requirements.
  3. Demonstrated leadership in implementing major finance and/or audit related process improvement programs that impact processes, systems, and services across a geographically dispersed and diverse workforce.

Additional information

Summary:
The Deputy Director J8 and Director of Financial Improvement/Audit Remediation, serves in dual capacities as the Agency's Budget Officer and Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation Director, responsible for planning, programming, formulating, defending, and executing the Agency's financial and manpower resources as well as the full spectrum of financial statement audit tasks as directed by the Department's Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation guidance. As the Deputy Director J8, the Executive serves as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer, a principal financial management advisor to the DLA Director and DLA Vice Director. The Executive influences senior leaders in the Agency, the Department, and other Federal agencies, industry, academia, Congress, and foreign governments by maintaining strategic relationships, gaining trust, identifying, and preemptively resolving critical issues on behalf of DLA and the Department.

The Executive is directly responsible for providing executive leadership and policy advice for the Agency's $40 billion annual budget, and for leading the planning, execution, and sustainment of the Agency's three financial statement audits. The Executive is responsible for recruiting, training, career development and retention of approximately 700 financial management specialists geographically located world-wide.

Additional Information:
Veteran's preference does not apply to the SES.

COVID19 - Federal agencies may request information regarding the vaccination status of selected applicants for the purposes of implementing other workplace safety protocols, such as protocols related to masking, physical distancing, testing, travel, and quarantine.

DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE:
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has established a Drug-Free Federal Workplace Policy. All applicants tentatively selected for DLA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with DLA for a period of six months. This policy extends to random testing for the use of illegal drugs by employees who occupy testing designated positions defined as sensitive in Section 7(d) of Executive Order 12564. The Defense Logistics Agency's Drug Free Workplace Plan's drug testing panel includes testing for the following illegal substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates (codeine/morphine), 6-Acetylmorphine (heroin), phencyclidine, amphetamines (amphetamine/methamphetamine), methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), oxycodone, oxymorphone, hydrocodone, and hydromorphone.

How you will be evaluated

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

To determine if you are best qualified for this job, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against the Executive Core Qualifications and Technical Qualifications listed in the qualifications section. The Executive Core Qualifications and Technical Qualifications are designed to capture the desired competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities for this position

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