Assistant Chief Financial Officer

Summary

The incumbent will serve as the management official for financial activities within VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS). Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer of the Medical Center, incumbent will have direct operational and supervisory responsibilities for budget, decision support system, payroll, employee travel, agent cashier, resource management and accounting.

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to: Ensures compliance with the established long and short term plans, policies and procedures established by the Chief Financial Officer, assuring that financial and administrative programs are integrated in order to provide high quality patient care with optimum utilization of medical center resources. Works with the Chief Financial Officer to assist senior management team responsible for all operations of Finance. Supervisory authority over decision support system, payroll, employee travel, agent cashier, resource management and accounting. Incumbent will ensure that Non-VA Care/contract hospitalization/certified payment centralized to the Austin Finance Center are processed in a timely and accurate fashion. Manages quality improvement activities for all programs in the service line and ensures compliance with all applicable JCAHO standards. Provides consultation services to all service lines. Participates in other activities and programs beneficial to the medical center, including committees, task forces and investigations. Responsible for developing policies, procedures and organizational structures required in fulfilling the Financial Management Service's missions. Develops and updates a business plan and assumes administrative responsibility for development, direction and integration of disparate multifunctional programs for the delivery of services. Performs other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday thru Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Assistant Chief Financial Officer/PD005220 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Approved

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/01/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Individual Occupational Requirements 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Works with the Chief Financial Officer in developing and implementing the financial plan and budget. Provides supports for outcomes, assessments, cost-benefit analyses and assist with business planning and monitors fiscal viability. Carries out and ensures full compliance with all Federal, Departmental and VHA financial policies, regulations and procedures. Provides technical support to budget formulation functions maintained at the medical center. Your qualifications will be evaluated based on your application materials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), your responses on the application questionnaire, and your responses to all assessments required for this position. You will be assessed on the following Competencies for this position: Conflict Management Influencing/Negotiating Manages Resources Partnering Planning and Evaluating Supervisory Situational Judgment Test. Applicants will be required to complete a Supervisory Situational Judgment Test (SSJT) as part of the assessment process for this position. The SSJT evaluates judgment and decision-making skills that align with relevant competencies, organizational values, and best practices. Assessment results may be used as part of the evaluation, ranking and referral process. This is not a timed test, however, the assessment is expected to take approximately 45 minutes or less to complete. The assessment for this application does not include a cut score for a minimum level of required proficiency in these critical general competencies. However, you must answer each item in the assessment. 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; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position