Financial Manager

The incumbent serves as Director of the Veterans Affairs (VA), Financial Services Center (FSC), Integrated Financial and Acquisitions Management System (iFAMS) Service. Primary responsibilities include ensuring the successful transition of all VA administrations to iFAMS through coordination between the Financial Management Business Transformation (FMBT) Office, FSC Services, and VA administration and staff offices. To qualify for this position applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/31/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-15 position, you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-14. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. See the Required Document section below for more information regarding the SF-50s needed to verify time-in-grade. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-14 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Directing enterprise-level financial management operations, including strategic planning, budget formulation and execution, and oversight of financial management programs and staff. Serving as a senior authority on the operation, sustainment, and modernization of an automated financial management system, setting direction for system operations and product management in coordination with IT while advising leadership on financial systems strategy. Demonstrated experience implementing technology enhancements that improve system usability, streamline workflows, and lower service desk demand through ticket optimization, performance metrics, and user-focused solutions. Advising executive leadership and senior stakeholders on financial policy, operations, and decisions affecting an organization's financial program. Deploying and administering a nationwide financial management system designed to track, reconcile, and report on programs and/or appropriations; establishing and maintaining a comprehensive business process management system to validate financial data, reconcile accounts, and support preparation of financial statements and reports. In addition to the above required qualifications, some positions in the Financial Management Series, GS-0505, include professional Accounting duties that require the application of professional accounting knowledge. For such positions, applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirements for the Accounting Series, GS-0510. Due to the nature of the duties of this Financial Manager, GS-0505-15 position, applicants must meet the Individual Occupational Requirements (Basic Requirements for Positions with Accounting Responsibilities) established under the Accounting Series, GS-0510. Individual Occupational Requirements: This position includes an Individual Occupation Requirement. Individual Occupational Requirements are requirements that must be met, in addition to the specialized experience and/or education requirement. Applicants who do not meet it are ineligible for further consideration. Evidence of the Individual Occupational Requirement must be reflected in your application materials (resume/transcript). The Individual Occupational Requirement for this position is: 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 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: Twenty-four semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and q #J-18808-Ljbffr