The Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) leads the development, negotiation, and presentation of the National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget on behalf of the Director of National Intelligence to the President and the Congress. The CFO's three main responsibilities include resource management (budget analysis, formulation, justification, and execution), performance planning and evaluation, and financial management improvement.
The Intelligence Community (IC) Chief Financial Officer (CFO) leads IC-wide efforts to develop, determine, and present the National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget to the Office of Management and Budget and Congress on behalf of the Director of National Intelligence. The IC CFO also leads IC resource, performance, and financial management as well as procurement oversight and facilities activities.
Additionally, IC CFO, through the CFE, provides oversight of ODNI resources, managing formulation, justification, execution, contracts, manpower, financial audits, and ODNI budget matters in coordination with the IC, OMB, DoW, and Congress. The IC CFO serves as the single point of integration for all performance- and budget-related activities across the 18 NIP elements.
Major Duties and Responsibilities: Prepare, analyze, and forecast budgetary and financial information to evaluate continual change in program plans and funding and their effect on financial and budget program milestones. 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.
Conduct budgetary and financial data analyses and the assessment of financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, standards, methods, techniques, controls, and systems to solve a variety of financial management problems.
Collect, research, and analyze comprehensive and substantive financial information that includes any area of budgeting, accounting, auditing, financial planning, and financial reporting to develop reports, testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership, the Office of Management and Budget, or Congress.
Develop specific objectives and devise new methods, techniques, and criteria pertaining to such matters as identifying trends and patterns, acquiring information and analyzing data, developing solutions and presenting findings, and examining requirements for which there are no precedents.
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) within or between IC organizations. Develops proposals concerning alternative methods, sources, and timing of financing for substantive programs.
Must be innovative and adept at conceiving new strategies for solving problems. Evaluate the mutual effects and interrelationships between program goals and accomplishments and budgetary resources and policies. Apply broad financial management policies and guidelines and establish performance metrics against priorities, policies, and objectives for frequently changing program objectives, plans, and funding requirements.
Apply IC-wide and ODNI regulations and standardize financial management processes and procedures to improve the quality of financial reporting. Define complex resource or financial problems, conduct extensive and intensive planning, coordinate multiple activities with a variety of parties, 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 vision, mission, and strategic objectives which may include audit plans and examinations, accounting operations or evaluations, or risk assessments of operations. Provide managers content to liaise with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) leadership. Other duties, as assigned.
Bachelors Degree
This position is with Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Other Agencies and Independent Organizations.
The posted pay range is $121785 – $158322/yr.
This position requires a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance.
Applications close on 2027-09-27.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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