ACCOUNTANT

About this role

You may qualify at the GS-14, if you fulfill the following qualifications: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the grade level in the Federal service: Planning, tracking and coordinating accounting efforts to pass an external audit. Coordinating with leadership and subject matter experts to coordinate and respond to prepared by client (PBC) audit requests (e.g., Payment Integrity Information Act (PIIA), Independent Public Accounting (IPA), Office of the Inspector General).

Updating and maintaining organizational end-to-end business process narratives (i.e., process control narratives). Managing internal testing events to ensure timely and accurate completion of internal testing deliverables. Demonstrating exceptional urgency, initiative, accuracy, and meticulous tracking with identifying, describing, and communicating audit and internal testing deficiencies. Transforming an environment from being reactive compliance driven to being dynamic, strategically driven.

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. In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 0510 series. Basic Requirement: 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.