Clarification from the agency

Current or Former Federal employees, regardless of tenure Internal agency employees; including agency temporary employees, eligible agency Experts, and eligible agency personal services contractors.

The Auditor performs the following major duties:

• Performance Auditing: Serves as a senior auditor, leading individual and concurrent audits, surveys, and evaluations that are complex and potentially precedent-setting. For example, leads audits that involve particularly sensitive issues, such as audits of highly sensitive undercover operations affecting homeland security. Other examples include audits that involve a wide range of audit targets, the juggling of audit boundaries, or that produce findings that may have nationwide or international impact on highly visible government programs. Assists in the development of proposals for audits, surveys, and evaluations of a broad range of agencies, programs, functions, and systems. Conducts and coordinates the day-to-day activities for high level audits, surveys and evaluations of a highly complex, sensitive, and serious nature involving considerable magnitude and involving one or more programs, functions, or systems; or performs intensive, in-depth reviews of major segments of programs, functions, and systems which are nationwide or international in scope.
• Financial Auditing: Conducts audits for a wide range of financial programs or the integrated financial operations of an organization inside or outside the department or agency. For example, audits the financial operations of a program like the Food Stamp Program with multiple areas of financial vulnerability due to its size, electronic benefits transfer, and high level of improper payments and retailer abuses. Coordinates and integrates planning, scheduling, and overall resource allocation. Analyzes a number of different accounting systems. Performs related problem solving and analysis. Conducts research. Evaluates reports, working papers, and performance criteria. Chooses audit areas to be covered and plans audit efforts in different locations and at different organizational management levels inside and outside the department or agency. Develops new audit approaches where no precedent exists. Recommends needed development, reviews, and revisions to systems, methods, and procedures. Prepares associated working papers, summaries, and reports. Follows up on audit resolution and corrective actions. Audits cover all major financial and management aspects of department or agency programs. Findings are critical for annual and long-range planning of agency functions and influence agency policies and legislative proposals.

Conditions of employment

• Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
• Applicants must successfully complete a background security investigation with favorable adjudication. Failure to successfully meet this requirement will be grounds for employment termination.
• All Federal employees are required to have federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing.
• A one year trial period is required.
• This job has been identified as a testing designated position under the OIG Drug-Free Workplace Program. Therefore, you must satisfactorily complete a drug test prior to being hired. As an employee, you will be subject to random drug testing.
• This is not a bargaining unit position.
• This position requires a Top Secret background investigation.

Peace Corps Information

• This is a Federal civilian job in the Excepted Service. Peace Corps employees are paid on the Foreign Personnel (FP) pay scale.
• This position is permanent and exempt from the five year rule.
• Qualified internal applicants will be given full consideration.
• Additional hiring needs may be filled through this vacancy.
• The Peace Corps is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.
• The Peace Corps is a drug-free workplace and promotes a drug-free environment.
• The Peace Corps is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive culture. Our goal is to attract and develop the best and brightest from all lifestyles and backgrounds. The Peace Corps strives to create a culture of inclusion where individuals feel respected and are treated fairly in all aspects of differences. Our commitment is to make a difference in the lives of people around the world.

The Peace Corps provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the hiring process, please notify the Office of Human Resources by calling 202-692-1200 or the Office of Civil Rights and Diversity on 202-692-2139. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.

Qualifications

Specialized Experience:

You must meet the specialized experience at the grade level(s) in which you choose to be considered by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on 09/07/2022 (the closing date of the announcement). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. To ensure full credit for your experience, please indicate dates of employment by month, day, and year and the number of hours worked per week in your resume.

This vacancy is being announced at two grade levels:

FP-4

Qualifying experience for the FP-4 level includes one year of specialized experience at least equivalent to the FP-5 or GS-9 level which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Experience examining, analyzing and interpreting accounting activities to determine conformance to accepted accounting principles and audit procedures.

FP-3

Qualifying experience for the FP-3 level includes one year of specialized experience at least equivalent to the FP-4 or GS-12 level which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Experience performing or overseeing independent audits of federal financial statements as the senior auditor which includes directing and instructing the audit team, and providing team members with technical guidance; Experience performing contracting tasks such as drafting statements of work and reviewing contract deliverables for a federal financial statement audit contract.

and

Degree: accounting, auditing; or a degree including auditing courses 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.

or

1. 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.

Additional information on qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/

Time-in-Grade Requirements: Internal applicants and Federal employees who are currently holding, or who have held within the previous 52 weeks, a position under a non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet "time-in-grade" requirements (have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade of the grade for which you are applying (FP5 or GS-9; FP-4 or GS-12).Note: All current or former Federal employees (including internal employees) must provide a copy of their SF-50 (you may need to submit more than one), "Notice of Personnel Action" that indicates proof of status and time-in-grade eligibility. The SF-50 must include your position, title, series, grade, step, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted).

All qualification requirements must be met by 09/07/2022 (the closing date of this announcement). Qualification claims will be subject to verification.

Please note: Peace Corps employees are employed using the Foreign Personnel (FP) pay scale. The FP pay plan does not follow the same structure as the GS pay plan. In the FP pay plan, as the grade-level numbers decrease the level/pay for the position increases (e.g., the FP-09 is the lowest entry-level pay and the FP-01 is the highest senior-level pay).

How you will be evaluated

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

Your application will be evaluated based on your resume, attached supporting documentation, and your responses to the self-assessment questionnaire. Your materials will be evaluated to validate your possession of any required knowledge, skills, abilities, and/or competencies. The following competencies will be evaluated in the self-assessment questionnaire:

• Audit Reporting
• Auditing
• Compliance

Please note that a complete application is required for consideration, including any documentation that is being used for qualifications. A Human Resources Specialist will review your resume and supporting documentation, which must support the answers you provided. Falsifying your background, education, and/or experience is cause for disqualification.

National service refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through national service programs such as the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps, as well as other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, community, student).