FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

About this role

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).