ACCOUNTANT

Summary

Click on "Learn more about this agency" button below to view Eligibilities being considered and other IMPORTANT information. The primary purpose of this position is to serve as a senior accountant with responsibility for a wide range of accounting and financial functions across the USSOCOM enterprise and to provide accounting oversight for the commands, perform financial reporting and operational functions, and support financial systems, audit readiness, and data analysis.

Duties

Serves as the principal accounting authority and command focal point for oversight, providing enterprise-level support to SOF Service Components and Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOCs). Leads or assists with the preparation, analysis, and certification of command financial statements as a principal liaison with DoD financial stakeholders to ensure enterprise-wide accuracy and compliance. Support the command's Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation (FIAR) program and provides subject matter expertise on financial systems. Provides technical expertise and guidance on complex and accounting matters.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the specialized experience requirements described in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions, Professional and Scientific Positions, 0510 BASIC REQUIREMENT OR INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL 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. The applicant's background must also include one of the following: Twenty-four semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality. This can include up to 6 hours of business law; A certificate as Certified Public Accountant or a Certified Internal Auditor, obtained through written examination; or Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in accounting or auditing, e.g., 15 semester hours, but that does not fully satisfy the 24-semester-hour requirement of paragraph A, provided that (a) the applicant has successfully worked at the full-performance level in accounting, auditing, or a related field, e.g., valuation engineering or financial institution examining; (b) a panel of at least two higher level professional accountants or auditors has determined that the applicant has demonstrated a good knowledge of accounting and of related and underlying fields that equals in breadth, depth, currency, and level of advancement that which is normally associated with successful completion of the 4-year course of study described in paragraph A; and (c) except for literal nonconformance to the requirement of 24 semester hours in accounting, the applicant's education, training, and experience fully meet the specified requirements. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower grade GS-12, or equivalent in other pay systems. Examples of specialized experience includes professional knowledge of OSD, OMB, military departments, and unified command accounting theories, practices, methods, and techniques, and a thorough understanding of the role of DFAS. Knowledge and skill in analyzing the varied and disparate Services', Service Providers' Accounting, Logistics, and Financial. Reporting systems supporting the military departments, the various defense agencies, and the DoD- Incumbent must have techniques to solve a variety of system-wide accounting problems resulting from this diversity. Knowledge of the congressional authorization and appropriation process, legislation, DoD and OMB procedures and regulations, and DoD-wide automated systems design characteristics and the capability to develop accounting systems for USSOCOM's unique requirements from existing and planned DoD-wide systems. Knowledge and ability to describe system specifications and system change requirements to government-wide or contractors computer programmers and software specialists so that USSOCOM's accounting problems can be resolved. Knowledge and skill as the senior systems accountant to maintain several accounting systems and related appropriation programs to maintain USSOCOM's accounting program. This includes program operations, designing and formatting new reports from the system; and creating new account structures. Knowledge and ability to apply initiative, originality, inventiveness, and resourcefulness in conceptualizing and designing and modifying accounting and reporting systems. Knowledge and ability to provide authoritative policy interpretations of DoD and OMB guidance and development and issue procedural instructions. Knowledge and skill in examination of documents, records, fiduciary reports and processes to ensure conformance with generally accepted governmental accounting principles and regulations. Knowledge and ability to revise existing management information systems to accommodate changes in regulations, requirements, or DoD-wide systems and procedures. Knowledge and skill in representing USSOCOM's viewpoint in meetings at local, component, DoD, DFAS, and OMB level meetings and the ability to deal with accounting and budget experts at all these echelons to answer inquiries and provide USSOCOM policy and preferences FEDERAL TIME-IN-GRADE (TIG) REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL SCHEDULE (GS) POSITIONS: Merit promotion applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year at the GS-12 level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the GS-13 level. TIG applies if you are in a current GS position or held a GS position within the previous 52 weeks. NOTE: Applicants applying as VEOA candidates who are current GS civil service employees or are prior GS civil service employees within the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: Professional knowledge of and skill in applying accounting principles, theories, and techniques to independently perform system development work related to requirements definition, development, testing, training, implementing, and maintaining new or modified financial systems. Knowledge of USSOCOM's organizations and programs including missions, functions, goals, objectives, work processes, and sources of funding pertinent to installation accounting organizations. Knowledge of automated data processing concepts, systems capabilities, and sources of factual accounting information (e.g., accounting reports, payroll records, work reports, inventory and supply data) to accomplish complex accounting tasks and reconciliations. Skill in formulating, justifying, and reconciling assigned accounting system projects and programs. Ability to communicate effectively, bot orally and in writing, to determine needs for, develop, and conduct training and instruction and to justify, defend, present, and advise on complex accounting processes, systems, and procedures. Ability to gather, assemble, and analyze data to ensure timely and accurate accounting reporting, develop alternatives, and make recommendations to resolve accounting system