Supervisory Accountant

This position is in FEMA's Finance Center within the Financial Management Division in Office of the Chief Financial Officer. The ideal candidate for this position will be a seasoned accounting professional with strong communication and leadership skills, have expertise in overseeing a wide variety of financial accounting functions, advising senior leadership, and coordinating organizational planning and performance management processes aligned to agency priorities.

What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will serve in FEMA's Finance Center within the Financial Management Division in Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO). You will provide leadership, technical guidance and expertise in a wide range of administrative and accounting functions. Activities include a mixture of routine and challenging accounting/reporting programs and requirements based on organizational goals and objectives. The incumbent is responsible for directing and overseeing daily work assignments, setting priorities, and determining resource requirements; determining short or long term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinating with other organizations to accomplish goals and objectives; monitoring progress and evaluating outcomes. This position reviews work from staff to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures. Maintains responsibility to senior management for all phases of accounting activities and administrative functions. Work is carried out through subordinate managers and staff in order to achieve broad objectives set out for each assignment. Provides expert advice to the Assistant Administrator, Financial Management and OCFO leadership, and to financial and program managers and other accountants in all areas of accounting particularly for unusual and difficult accounting events. Typical assignments include: Serving as an accounting authority to provide senior level agency coordination of accounting issues. Assisting with developing/updating financial management policies for program users to ensure compliance across the enterprise. Serving as the first line and second line supervisor by providing technical and administrative supervision to staff responsible for financial management operations; and preparing direct reports performance plans and issuing performance assessments, reviewing completed work, and reviewing work in progress. Managing and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the branch, ensuring all accounting and administrative functions are performed accurately and in a timely manner. Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships on matters relating to financial and management operations with other organizations such as programs and management components, external auditors, intergovernmental financial management groups, and other appropriate organizations. Briefing senior leadership within the Agency during various forums on important Department and Agency wide financial matters. What else do I need to know? At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for High Risk as a condition of placement into this position. This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information). For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs please visit OPM Investigations. Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below. Key Requirements: You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position. You must successfully pass a background investigation. Selective Service registration required. Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements. You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card. You must be able to deploy with little or no advance notice to anywhere in the United States and its territories for an extended period of time. Please review the Additional Information section for additional key requirements.