Clarification from the agency

All U.S. Citizens

This position is located within the Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary, Office of Financial Management, Internal Control and Audit Follow-Up Division in Washington, DC.

At the full performance level GS-14 the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive Single audit follow-up process, including tracking audit findings, monitoring resolution activities, and ensuring compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements. Mature policies and procedures for managing high-risk and recurring audit findings.
2. Develop the Department's Single Audit follow-up tracking system and standard operating procedures. Engage with relevant stakeholders, including department heads, process owners, and senior management, to mature policies and procedures. Identify opportunities to streamline audit follow-up processes, enhance efficiency, and strengthen controls. Implement process improvements and best practices to optimize the audit follow-up function.
3. Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the progress of audit follow-up activities. Prepare regular status reports and updates for senior management, highlighting the status of open audit findings and resolution efforts.
4. Provide inter-agency coordination, consistency, and sharing in areas such as coordinating audit follow-up; identifying higher-risk non-Federal entities; providing input on single audit and follow-up policy; utilize Federal Audit Clearinghouse (FAC) to analyze ways to use single audit results to improve Federal award accountability and best practices.
5. Provide training and guidance to staff involved in the audit follow-up process, including audit coordinators and departmental representatives. Foster a culture of accountability and compliance throughout the organization.
6. Support management of audit follow-up functions. Review FAC submissions to identify recently issued Single Audit reports with questioned costs and/or recommended corrective actions affecting DOI Programs. Inform Awarding Bureau of relevant reports and track Agency actions to ensure timely issuance of management decisions; appropriate and timely corrective actions taken in response to reported findings; recovery of disallowed costs.
7. Manage and facilitate Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit coordination process.
8. Contribute to organizational change with innovation, including optimizing audit coordination management processes, use of technological efficiencies such as SharePoint, dashboard reporting structure.

The Office of the Secretary has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval.

Salary Information
GS-14:
$139,395 - $181,216 per annum
First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the lower salary range of the grade level.

This vacancy may be used to fill additional positions as vacancies become available.

This vacancy is also announced as OS-6000-24-AW-114(MP) for those applicants who wish to apply and be considered under Merit Promotion procedures.

Conditions of employment

1. You must be a U.S. Citizen.
2. You will be subject to a background/suitability investigation/determination.
3. You will be required to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit.
4. You must submit ALL required documents and a completed questionnaire.
5. Selective Service: If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service system, or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. See http://www.sss.gov/.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification Requirements:
To qualify for this position you must meet the (1) Basic Educational Requirements AND (2) Specialized Experience for the series/grade to which you are applying.

(1) Basic Educational Requirements:
In addition to the specialized experience requirements for this position, applicants must meet the Education Requirements described below:
A. Degree: accounting; or a degree 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. (The term "accounting" means "accounting and/or auditing" in this standard. Similarly, "accountant" should be interpreted, generally, as "accountant and/or auditor.")
OR
B. 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.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You must submit your transcripts or other verification to verify that you meet this educational requirement.

(2) Specialized Experience
To qualify for the GS-14, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience: 1.) Implementing and enforcing Single Audit follow-up management and OMB Circular A-50, audit follow-up; 2.) Conducting audit management tasks and supporting remediation efforts; monitoring and oversight proficiency with large group of stakeholders; 3.) Managing and developing qualitative and quantitative methodology to gather, analyze, and preparing concise analytical summaries of program and operations data, performance, and results for financial management programs; and 4.) Conducting effective briefings and preparing professional memoranda, graphical presentations, and materials for use in financial reports. MUST MEET ALL.

Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions and is available at OPM's website: https://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/num-ndx.asp

All qualification requirements must be met 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.

Once the application process is complete, we will review your application to ensure you meet the job requirements. To determine if you are qualified for this job, a review of your resume, supporting documentation and responses to the online questionnaire will be made. Your responses to the online assessment will be used to measure the degree to which your background matches the requirements for this position. You are being evaluated under the Category Rating method, which means, if you are determined to be qualified you will be placed in one of three pre-defined categories. These categories are "Platinum", "Gold", and "Silver". However, your resume must support your responses to the scored occupational questionnaire, or your score may be lowered. Candidates placed in the "Platinum" category will be identified for referral to the hiring manager and may be invited for an interview. Veterans' preference rules for category rating will be applied.

Your answers to the on-line assessment will be used to evaluate your competencies in the following areas:

• Risk Management: Knowledge of methods and tools used for risk assessment and mitigation of risk.
• Auditing: Knowledge of generally accepted auditing standards and procedures for conducting financial and compliance, economy and efficiency, and program results audits.
• Accounting: Knowledge of traditional accounting practices including accrual, obligations, and costs methods.
• Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.
• Information Management: Identifies a need for and knows where or how to gather information, organizes and maintains information or information management systems.

If you are a status applicant (current career or career-conditional Federal employee or former permanent Federal employee with reinstatement eligibility in the competitive service), or are eligible under a special appointing authority and you are selected under this vacancy, you may be subject to serving a new one-year probationary period.

To preview the assessment questionnaire click: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12437664