ACCOUNTANT

Accountant Duties

As an ACCOUNTANT at the GS-0510-14 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Performs financial reporting and overview of DHRA's reports submitted by Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) system which includes ensuring financial transactions are processed timely and accurately, reviewed and reconciled to coincide with the DoD accounting metric standards.
• Performs feeder system reconciliations of discrepancies and ensures timely correction to produce accurate financial statements.
• Serves as the primary technical interface between external auditors (including Independent Public Accounting (IPA) firms and the DoW Office of the Inspector General) and Personnel Readiness Management Agency operational leadership.
• Carries absolute responsibility for interfacing directly with auditors through all exam phases (planning, internal controls testing, substantive testing, and reporting).
• Develops and certifies the agency's annual Assertion Package for Reporting Entity assessable units, formally documenting that internal controls over financial reporting are suitably designed and operating effectively.
• Manages the life cycle of auditor inquiries and provided by client (PBC) requests.
• Coordinates formal management responses to Notifications of Finding and Recommendation (NFRs).
• Serves as the authoritative expert responsible for ensuring absolute independence and segregation of duties across organizational financial operations.
• Establishes, maintains, and executes robust internal controls testing and audit liaison functions strictly independent of the core accounting division, in full compliance with GAO Green Book standards and federal audit guidelines.
• Identifies, mitigates, and resolves structural deficiencies to safeguard internal control integrity and prevent conflicts of interest.
• Serves as a senior technical authority within the Risk and Compliance Division, executing the agency's comprehensive internal controls testing program in strict alignment with Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation (FIAR) directives, OMB Circular A-123, and the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA), while overseeing systematic control evaluations across all assessable unit (i.e., Hire-to-Retire, Order-to-Cash, Property in the Possession of Contractors (PiPoC), Procure-to-Pay, Acquire-to-Retire, and Budget-to-Report) and enterprise-wide control (i.e., Entity Level Controls, Information Technology General Controls (ITGC), and Fraud Controls) pillars to safeguard organizational financial integrity.
• Identifies, analyzes, and documents systemic control gaps and deficiencies across all audited areas, provides strategic compliance recommendations to executive leadership, and validates the completion of corrective action plans to ensure absolute compliance with the CFO Act of 1990 and FFMIA standards.
• Performs mandatory civil service oversight, technical quality reviews, and formal fiduciary acceptance of all third-party commercial contractor deliverables, methodologies, and testing workpapers across all nine assessable unit and enterprise-wide control pillars; serves as the government's validating authority to ensure contractor execution complies with federal acquisition guidelines, inherent governmental responsibilities, and agency performance standards.
• Designs, establishes, and executes the agency's in-house fraud prevention program and forensic detection architecture, leveraging advanced forensic accounting acumen and fraud examination methodologies, to proactively identify high-risk financial anomalies and strengthen internal control structures against institutional fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.