Tax Analyst

Internal Revenue Service • Covington, KY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This job is open to current permanent IRS competitive service employees in Taxpayer Services business units. The positions are to be filled in the following area(s): Taxpayer Services - Accounts Management, Embedded Quality. The role provides technical guidance on issues, proposals, and activities impacting program operations, ensuring operating units align with regulatory and administrative provisions. It involves reviewing proposals for compatibility with program goals, analyzing new requirements and policies for impact on operations, and coordinating site visits for briefings, studies, and program effectiveness reviews. The position also offers technical advice to field managers and employees, adapts operating guidelines for local use, and prepares reports on identified issues, recommending improvements or corrective actions.

Requirements

• Federal experience is not required. Experience may have been ਕੀਤਾ in the public sector, private sector or through Volunteer Service.
• One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis.
• Indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume.
• SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GRADE 11: One year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience includes: IRS functions, programs, policies, regulations, procedures, and operations to evaluate program plans and determine impact of changes on program goals; Recognizing significant tax issues and enforcement changes that impact assigned programs in order to revise procedures or recommend changes in basic implementing regulations when indicated; Oral and written communications to brief operating unit managers and employees; prepare reports; document findings and conclusions; and disseminate procedural and regulatory information; Management planning; program analysis; process analysis; management reporting procedures and available system capabilities to resolve operating problems and develop means for providing statistical data or other management information reports.
• SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GRADE 12: One year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience must include: Experience with cross-functional programs and their interrelationship with assigned program to conduct reviews, studies/projects and coordinate systems and resource utilization of program operations; IRS functions, programs, policies, regulations, procedures, and operations to evaluate program plans and determine impact of changes on program goals; Using analytical and evaluative methods in order to assess and measure effectiveness of program operations, identify gaps or conflicts in program information, consolidate findings and, recommend alternatives; Recognizing significant tax issues and enforcement changes that impact assigned programs in order to revise procedures or recommend changes in implementing regulations; Principles of management planning, program and process analysis, management reporting procedures and available system capabilities to resolve operating problems, and providing statistical data or other management information reports; Oral and written communications to conduct briefings, prepare reports, document findings and, disseminate procedural and regulatory information; Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS) Accounts Management Programs (such as Individual Master File or Business Master File) to assess risk, including internal and external stakeholders, for the purpose of revenue protection.
• TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT (TACA): By the closing date (or if this is an open continuous announcement, by the cut-off date) specified in this job announcement, current civilian employees must have completed at least 90 days of federal civilian service since their latest non-temporary appointment from a competitive referral certificate, known as time after competitive appointment.
• TIME IN GRADE (TIG): For positions above the GS-05, applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade requirements to be considered eligible. One year (52 weeks) at the next lower grade level is required to meet the time-in-grade requirements for the grade you are applying for.

Nice To Haves

• PH.D or equivalent doctoral degree that demonstrated the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to do the work.
• Three (3) full academic years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a doctoral degree in a related field of study that demonstrated the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to do the work.
• LL.M., if related.
• A combination of qualifying graduate education and experience equivalent to that amount required.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance on issues, proposals, and activities impacting program operations, and ensures operating units are in alignment with regulatory and administrative provisions and requirements.
• Reviews proposals to alter or modify concepts, processes, or functions for compatibility with program goals and objectives, as well as analyzes and evaluates new requirements, policies, and modifications for impact on program operations, systems, and resources.
• Coordinates site visits to conduct briefings, studies, implement program initiatives, review program effectiveness, and identify additional system or revision in work processes required.
• Provides technical advice and staff assistance to field managers and employees in the operational program area assigned.
• Adapts and prepares operating guidelines, instructions, and other material pertaining to assigned program area for local use.
• Prepares reports concerning identified issues to explain program differences and recommend improvements and/or corrective action for program operations, where differing or competing viewpoints may occur.

Benefits

• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
• As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
• Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.

What This Job Offers

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