Chief Financial Resources.

DutiesAssist MI Staff Director with the MI budget execution, identify requirements and capabilities; developing the MI Front Office annual spend plan, work with the MI components and assist with their annual spend plans development.Provide substantial, clear, logical recommendations on how to track commitments, obligations and expenditures.Prepare, analyze, and forecast budgetary and financial information and taskers responses to evaluate continual change in program plans and funding and their effect on financial and budget program milestones.Oversee and manage the financial implications of strategic and capital/lifecycle/infrastructure planning, investment control, policy enforcement, and management throughout the financial life cycles (i.e., planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and evaluation) within or between IC organizations.Analyze financial and budgetary relationships to develop recommendations for financial and/or budgetary actions under uncertain conditions or due to short and rapidly changing deadlines, guidance or objectives.Accomplish Contractor Performance Monitor duties.Conduct budgetary and financial data analyses and the assessment of financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, standard, methods, techniques, controls, and systems to solve a variety of financial management problems.Collect, research, and analyze comprehensive and substantive financial reporting to develop resource management reports, briefings, talking points for the MI Staff Director or others as directed.Determine the financial implications of strategic and capital lifecycle, and infrastructure planning, investment control, policy enforcement, and management throughout the financial life cycles (i.e. planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and evaluation).Propose and develops proposals concerning alternative methods, sources and timing of financing for substantive programs for the MI Staff Director's approval. Must be innovative and adept at conceiving new strategies for solving problems.Evaluate the mutual effects and interrelationships between program goals and accomplishments, budgetary resources and policies.Apply broad financial management policies, guidelines and propose performance metrics against priorities, policies, and objectives for frequently changing program objectives, plans, and funding requirements.Apply IC-wide and ODNI instructions, and propose standardized financial management processes and procedures to improve the MI quality and financial reporting.Define complex resource or financial problems, conduct extensive and intensive planning, coordinate multiple activities with the MI components, and conduct comprehensive analysis of a multitude of functions and operations.Engage in financial management programs, practices, processes, and activities by applying principles that incorporate the MI's vision, mission, and strategic objectives which may include audit plans, internal controls, accounting operations or risk assessment of operations.Provide the MI Staff Director or other managers content to liaise with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) senior leadership.When required complete or assist with the completion of RCAFs, PETs, SLA, ORE, and ULO/ODO Taskers.Maintain IC Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) Certification and maintain proficiency in the ALM System.Other duties as assigned.RequirementsConditions of employmentMust be a U.S. Citizen residing in the United StatesAppointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on an SBI with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI)Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.A two-year trial period is required for all new permanent appointments to the ODNI.QualificationsFREE RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONSAll applicants must answer the following four short, free response essay questions. The responses cannot exceed 200 words per question. By submitting your responses to the following questions, you certify that you are using your own words and did not use a consultant or AI (such as a large language model [LLM]).How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience.In this role, how would you use your skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness? Provide specific examples where you improved processes, reduced costs, or improved outcomes.How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you and explain how you would help implement them if hired.How has a strong work ethic contributed to your professional, academic or personal achievements? Provide one or two specific examples and explain how those qualities would enable you to serve effectively in this position.Expert knowledge of the principles, concepts, laws, and regulations of financial administration, budgeting, accounting, or auditing sufficient to generate new concepts and methodologies or to theorize, plan, and direct entire financial, budgeting, accounting, or auditing systems for broad, emerging, or similarly critical large-scale ODNI-wide programs of national or international scope where no precedents exist.Expert ability to plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, and monitor budget/financial information to ensure cost-effective support of organizations and programs, including conducting budget/financial data analysis and assessing financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.Superior ability to serve as expert and consultant to top agency management officials and customers, in context of operation requirements bases on financial analysis and recommends possible courses of action.Problems are frequently stubborn due to such matters as conflicting funding priorities, economic interests, public interests, constitutional protections, or equivalent concerns.Superior ability to conduct accounting, and financial reporting information; expert knowledge of financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.Superior knowledge of departmental or agency financial management policy, regulations, and financial systems and superior ability to apply sound and independent judgment in order to resolve complex financial problems.Superior ability to make decisions and recommendations addressing undefined issues that require much consideration and extensive analysis of the immediate and long-range implications of any action. Decisions regarding what needs to be done require extensive probing and analysis.Superior ability to manage the financial implications of strategic and capital/life cycle/infrastructure planning, investment.Expert knowledge of the IC and its components, missions, and interrelationships, including the superior ability to lead broad-based teams regarding key IC financial management issues.Expert experience establishing and maintaining professional networks with all levels of management both internal and external to the ODNI.Expert representational, oral, and written communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, logical, and concise products.Superior organizational and interpersonal skills, and demonstrated ability to negotiate, build consensus, and work effectively and independently in a team or collaborative environment.Expert ability to develop consensus recommendations and to solicit input from colleagues and peers; superior ability to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements.Certified Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR).Current TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.EducationBachelor's DegreeAdditional informationJOB INTERVIEW TRAVELCandidates from outside the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA) may be selected for a telephone, teleconference, or in-person interview.SALARY DETERMINATIONThe ODNI uses a rank-in-person system in which rank is attached to GS employees on the basis of individual qualifications, experience, and performance. Individuals whose current GS grade is equivalent to the grade of the advertised position will retain their current grade and step. Individuals who transfer to the ODNI from a non-GS pay scale will have base pay converted to the appropriate GS grade and step as determined by the Chief of Human Resource Management.In some cases when a current federal civilian employee applies for an ODNI position that is a lower grade than his or her personal grade, the candidate's personal grade will be downgraded to the grade of the advertised ODNI position and pay will be set at the step that is closest to, and not less than, the employee's current annual base rate of pay, not to exceed the maximum step rate of the GS grade to which assigned.RELOCATION EXPENSESFor new ODNI employees, reimbursement for relocation is discretionary based on availability of funds.REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS The ODNI provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the Reasonable Accommodations Officer by email at DNI_COO_HRM_RA_ALL@odni.gov, by telephone at (703)275-3900 or by FAX at (703)275-1277. Your request for reasonable accommodations will be addressed on a case-by-case basis. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION TO THE REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION EMAIL ADDRESS. THIS EMAIL IS FOR REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS ONLY.The ODNI is an equal opportunity employer and abides by applicable employment laws and regulations.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.A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.