Financial Analyst (Early Career - Finance)

As a Financial Analyst, Financial Technician, or early-career professional in a similar role, you contribute to financial management work that helps agencies plan, track, analyze, and manage resources. Your work may include financial planning and analysis, budget support, financial data review, ensuring compliance, reporting, customer service, and process improvements.

Representative duties may include: Assist with financial planning, analysis, reporting, and support activities across assigned program areas. Research and process financial information using established procedures, operating manuals, and guidance. Support budget formulation, execution, expenditure tracking, and related financial planning activities. Help develop or maintain budgets, cash flow projections, financial models, or other planning tools under supervision. Support compliance reviews, audits, and quality checks to maintain accuracy and integrity in financial reporting. Prepare financial summaries, reports, communications, and briefing materials for review. Use spreadsheets, collaboration platforms, dashboards, automation, or approved AI-enabled tools, where authorized, to support research, drafting, summarization, data organization, reporting, and workflow improvement. Review digital or AI-assisted outputs for accuracy, completeness, relevance, and appropriate use before incorporating them into official work. Depending on the hiring agency, you may also use digital tools, dashboards, automation, and approved AI-enabled tools to support financial research, summarize budget or financial materials, identify patterns or anomalies in data, draft preliminary narratives or reports, and strengthen service delivery. Applicants do not need to be AI experts, but should be comfortable learning new tools, using technology responsibly, and adapting to a changing work environment.

This is a pooled hiring action. Specific duty locations are not known at the time of this announcement. Positions may be located anywhere in the United States where federal agencies are located. Duty location will be determined at the time of selection based on the needs of the agency and the interests of the candidate. Applicants will indicate geographic preferences in the application questionnaire. These preferences may help participating agencies understand candidate location interests and potential future workforce needs, but they do not guarantee consideration, selection, or assignment to any specific location. After appointment, the employing agency may reassign employees to another federal duty location based on mission needs and applicable law, regulation, and agency policy. Any reassignment decision is made by the employing agency after appointment and is not guaranteed. Applicants must meet all conditions of employment listed in this announcement and any agency-specific requirements. Depending on the position, these may include: U.S. citizenship or nationality. Completion of the E-Verify employment verification process. Selective Service registration, if applicable. Background investigation and suitability determination. Security clearance, if required by the hiring agency. Drug testing, financial disclosure, or bargaining unit coverage, depending on the position. May require a pre-employment drug test and/or random drug testing during the period of employment. Direct deposit of salary payments. Current civil service employees selected will be given new appointments to the civil service and subject to a new probationary period; however, benefits, time served, and other Federal entitlements may remain the same. Specific conditions of employment may vary by hiring agency. Applicants should clarify duty location, telework eligibility, travel, security clearance, and other position-specific requirements with the hiring agency, if contacted for interview or selection.