The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the Nation's risk advisor, working with partners to defend against today's threats and collaborating with industry to build a more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future. The official title of this position is Accountant GS-0510-12/13.
This position is located in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer which provides sound decision support in the areas of budget, financial management, and program and economic analysis services. Typical work assignments at the full performance level include, but are not limited to: Serving as the technical authority on internal control matters and is responsible for advising, implementing, coordinating, and overseeing a variety of complex accounting policies and audit-related activities impacting CISA activities or operations. Conducting risk analyses and develops and executes tests of design and operating effectiveness of business process and financial system internal controls. Developing and implementing methods to monitor and measure risk, compliance, and assurance. Understanding applicable laws, regulations, policies, standards and procedures and assess the impact on existing operations, recommending and guiding corrective actions and strategies where conflicts exist. Interpreting accounting policies and assesses the implication on existing operations and corrective actions plans across the Agency. Develop and perform tests of design and operating effectiveness in line with internal control laws and standards to the support the agency's annual Statement of Assurance. Evaluate the likelihood and magnitude of the control deficiency to determine the severity in line with internal control guidance (e.g., significant deficiency, material weakness). Assess an organization's entity-level controls in line with technical guidance and informed by business process and IT assessment results. Utilize knowledge of policies and regulations to implement internal control guidance, including OMB Circular A-123 Appendix A or Sarbanes Oxley Section 404. Develop and perform financial statement and internal control audit procedures in line with auditing standards. Provide financial statement audit expertise, including financial transaction (USSGL)/debit-credit expertise. Evaluate and implement new or modified accounting, audit, and internal control guidance or legislation. Provide technical advice on accounting and auditing theories, practices, techniques, and standards to comply with federal and DHS standards. Design and implement processes, templates, and tools to improve business process and system controls and address internal control deficiencies. Guide business process and system owners to implement recommendations and address control deficiencies. Design and execute a corrective action plan to successfully resolve business process and system internal control significant deficiencies. Develop and manage comprehensive corrective action plans that include root cause analysis and detailed milestones that effectively re-mediate deficiencies identified during internal control testing or external financial audits. Manage the annual financial audit between program offices and the external auditors to ensure timely and accurate audit responses. Author internal control documentation including but not limited to process narratives, flowcharts, and control evaluation matrices that identify internal controls and risks and assess the risks and controls within the process. Prepare written documents that explain or justify decisions, conclusions, findings, and recommendations.
For positions with an education requirement, you MUST submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent. Unofficial transcripts will be accepted that includes your name, the name of the educational institution, course title(s), number of credits, grade, and date of completion. An official transcript will be required if you are selected. Education must be from an accredited institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Graduate Education: One academic year of graduate education is the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study. Foreign Education: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the qualification requirements. You must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private U.S. organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications for more information.
allison.brooks@cisa.dhs.gov
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