Financial Manager

Office of the Director of National Intelligence • McLean, VA

12d

About The Position

The Financial Manager supports the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), which leads the nation’s effort to protect the United States from terrorism by integrating, analyzing, and sharing information to drive government action and achieve national counterterrorism objectives. The role plans, administers, analyzes, forecasts, coordinates, and monitors financial and budgetary activities to support Intelligence Community (IC) organizations and programs. It assesses financial conditions and the effects of policy and legislative changes on resources, programs, mission objectives, and program viability.

The position collects and analyzes financial information to develop testimony, briefings, talking points, and guidance for senior Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) leadership and Congress. It may lead complex financial analyses and provide expert recommendations to IC customers. The manager oversees financial aspects of strategic and capital, lifecycle, and infrastructure planning, investment control, and management across financial planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and evaluation cycles.

The role also develops and implements financial management policies, guidelines, performance measures, regulations, and standardized processes; monitors operational plans and outcomes; and adjusts long-range plans as Congressional and Presidential goals change. It liaises with ODNI leadership, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Congressional oversight committees, and participates in IC-wide financial management groups and meetings. Other budget and financial duties may be assigned.

Employment is subject to U.S. citizenship and U.S. residency requirements, a suitability or fitness determination, and the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility. New permanent ODNI appointees are subject to a two-year trial period. A bachelor’s degree is required.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen residing in the United States.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance based on a single-scope background investigation, with eligibility for sensitive compartmented information (SCI).
• Appointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination based on a completed background investigation.
• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• Expert knowledge of financial management, budgeting, accounting, or auditing concepts, principles, practices, laws, and regulations, including complex relationships among programs, systems, functions, policies, the IC, ODNI, OMB, and Congress.
• Superior ability to plan, administer, analyze, forecast, and monitor budget and financial information, conduct data analysis, and assess financial conditions.
• Superior ability to independently analyze exceptionally large and complex national-level programs.
• Superior ability to assess enterprise-wide organizational processes and programs and develop, recommend, and implement budgetary and financial policies and agreements.
• Superior ability to advise customers based on financial analysis and operational requirements and recommend courses of action.
• Superior ability to interpret executive orders, OMB guidelines and directives, and policies and precedents within and across the IC.
• Expert knowledge of accounting and financial reporting information, principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.
• Expert knowledge of agency financial management policy, regulations, and systems, and demonstrated independent judgment in resolving complex financial problems.
• Superior ability to manage financial implications of strategic and capital, lifecycle, and infrastructure planning and investment.
• Expert knowledge of the IC, its components, missions, and interrelationships, including ability to lead broad-based teams on key IC financial management issues.
• Expert experience establishing and maintaining professional networks with internal and external management at all levels.
• Expert representational, oral, and written communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, logical, and concise products.
• Superior organizational and interpersonal skills; ability to negotiate, build consensus, and work effectively independently and collaboratively.
• Ability to develop consensus recommendations, solicit input, remain open-minded, and change opinions based on new information and requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• New permanent ODNI appointees must complete a two-year trial period.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, schedule, coordinate, and monitor budgetary, financial, accounting, and auditing activities supporting IC organizations and programs.
• Analyze financial conditions using financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.
• Assess the effects of new or revised Executive or Congressional language on planned or existing resources, programs, activities, mission, program viability, and objectives.
• Collect, research, and analyze financial information to develop testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership, and develop guidance for resource requests and reports to the DNI and Congress.
• Lead complex financial analyses as needed and provide expert advice and recommendations to senior IC customers in the context of their operations and requirements.
• Oversee financial implications of strategic and capital, lifecycle, and infrastructure planning, investment control, policy enforcement, and management across financial life cycles within or between IC organizations.
• Develop, improve, and implement financial management policies and guidelines, and establish performance metrics aligned with priorities, policies, and objectives.
• Monitor and evaluate operational performance plans and outcomes, identifying potential threats or opportunities.
• Collaborate on IC and ODNI regulations and standardize financial management processes and procedures to improve financial reporting quality.
• Modify long-range plans as Congressional and Presidential program goals change, and contribute expert strategic-planning knowledge to financial management programs, practices, processes, and activities.
• Liaise with ODNI leadership, OMB, and Congressional oversight committees on financial management issues, and participate in IC-wide financial management working groups, committees, and meetings.
• Perform other budget and financial duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Federal employees and their families have access to a comprehensive benefits package; specific benefits depend on position type and should be confirmed with the hiring agency.
• Relocation reimbursement for new ODNI employees may be available at the agency’s discretion, subject to funding.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior