FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

Summary

This position is part of the Defense Human Resources Activity. The incumbent will support the Office of the Comptroller, Budget Execution Division in executing long-range budget plans and accomplishing the organization's mission to provide world-class financial services support to develop and implement the best standard budget execution, finance practices, processes, and procedures.

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As a FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST at the GS-0501-14 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Serves as an authoritative technical advisor to the Budget Execution Division Chief, Deputy Comptroller, and Comptroller on long-range execution plans, evaluating substantive program effectiveness, and resolving complex, systemic financial deficiencies.
• Executes routine and detailed budget analysis by independently extracting, compiling, and analyzing Status of Funds (SoFs) data to prepare and present quantitative baseline budget execution metrics for Center and Office management teams.
• Manages end-to-end transaction-level funding execution within the Defense Agency Initiative (DAI) enterprise system, independently verifying and processing funding realignments, Purchase Requests (PRs), MIPRs, Interagency Agreements (IAAs), and Intra-governmental transactions (IGTs).
• Performs formal fiduciary duties as a designated funding document certifier, systematically reviewing agency commitment and obligation (C-O) plans to verify statutory compliance with fiscal law, appropriations guidelines, and Total Obligation Authority thresholds.
• Coordinates quarterly account reviews and historical reconciliations via the Dormant Account Review-Quarterly (DAR-Q) program using the ADVANA platform, specifically researching canceling-year documentation to prevent statutory violations.
• Leads agency participation in external financial statement audits, coordinating Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) testing cycles, and directly partnering with process owners to remediate identified business cycle vulnerabilities.
• Acts as principal financial liaison to various component directors to coordinate complex fiduciary accountability workflows, resource divisions, and enterprise business rules.

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Resume and supporting documents (See How To Apply)
• Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period
• Work Schedule: Full Time
• Overtime: Occasionally
• Tour of Duty: Flexible
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Financial Disclosure: Not Required
• Telework Eligibility: This position is telework eligible per the agency's specific policy

Qualifications

You may qualify at the GS-14, if you fulfill the following qualifications:

A. One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service:

• Managing and executing multi-appropriation federal budgets across complex funding streams (O&M, RDT&E, and PDW). This includes utilizing automated financial systems (DAI, GInv, ADVANA) to autonomously process funding realignments, Purchase Requests (PRs), Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs), Intergovernmental Transfers (IGT's), and Interagency Agreements (IAAs).
• Planning, coordinating, and tracking agency-wide financial improvement initiatives designed to meet the scrutiny of rigorous external financial audits and sustain clean audit opinions. This includes executing Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) testing activities, compiling complex evidentiary sample packages for inspectors general, and analyzing transactional deficiencies to engineer corrective action plans.
• Managing comprehensive account reconciliation frameworks, such as the Dormant Account Review-Quarterly (DAR-Q) program using advanced data platforms like ADVANA. This includes researching long-standing or systemic transaction deficiencies, isolating unknown fiscal conditions, and managing closing or canceling-year financial documents to maintain strict fiduciary integrity.
• Researching, interpreting, and applying overarching federal statutory authorities, including the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act of 1990, the Anti-Deficiency Act, OMB Circulars A-123 & A-127, and FMFIA guidelines. This includes serving as a principal financial liaison to external service providers (DFAS, OUSW(C)) to negotiate intricate business rules, resolve systemic accounting defects, and build compliant operational policy frameworks.
• Analyzing individual organizational division commitment and obligation (C-O) plans to compile and present structured, quantitative execution data to leadership (Comptrollers and Division Chiefs). This includes independently evaluating financial performance variables, identifying baseline systemic challenges across multi-agency program structures, and delivering authoritative corrective recommendations to mitigate structural risk.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Additional information

Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA): To be eligible for a VEOA appointment under Merit Promotion procedures, the veteran must be a preference eligible or a veteran separated after 3 years or more of continuous active service performed under honorable conditions.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Programs : This program applies to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria; 2) be rated well-qualified for the position; Well qualified is defined as possessing the type and quality of experience that exceeds the positions minimum qualifications. and 3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. For more information:

Noncompetitive Appointment Authorities : For more information on noncompetitive appointment authority eligibility requirements:

Persons with Disabilities - Schedule A

Special Hiring Authority for Veterans

Special Hiring Authority for Certain Military Spouses

Other Special Appointment Authorities - Subpart F

Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see

The selecting official may choose to conduct interviews, and once the selection is made, you will receive a notification of the decision.

NOTE: Declining to be interviewed or failure to report for a scheduled interview will be considered as a declination for further consideration for employment against this vacancy.

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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Selectee or incumbent must be able to obtain the appropriate certification level for their position. This is a Financial Management Level 3 Certified position. IAW Public Law 112-81 and DoD Policy the incumbent shall comply with the requirements of DoD FM Certification program within the allotted time frame. Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.

Re-employed Annuitant: This position does not meet criteria for re-employed annuitant. The DoD criteria for hiring Re-employed Annuitants can be found at:

As required by 5 C.F.R. § 302.106., DLA will provide Section 508 conformant ICT to employees with disabilities. All ICT interfaces with the public related to vacancy announcements and career transition opportunities must conform to the applicable requirements in the current ICT Standards and Guidelines (36 C.F.R. § 1194).

Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level).

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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