DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND COMPTROLLER

Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA); Quantico (VA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) seeks a senior executive to lead the Financial Management and Comptroller directorate. You will direct an end-to-end financial program, including budget formulation, accounting, and financial reporting for a multi-billion portfolio.

As the principal financial adviser to the DCSA Director and senior leaders, you will shape resource allocation, risk management, and long-term sustainability, ensuring compliance with laws and federal

Qualifications

• Must demonstrate ECQs and TQs within resume, not to exceed 2 pages.
• Experience managing inter-agency financial operations.
• Experience managing a multi-billion-dollar portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Direct end-to-end financial-management program, including budget formulation and execution.
• Provide executive financial oversight to DCSA Director and senior leadership.
• Oversee Working Capital Fund operations, rate development, and cost-recovery.
• Establish and maintain internal-control environment and audit remediation.
• Represent DCSA with OMB, congressional staff, and other federal entities on budget matters.

Skills

Budget management

Inter-agency collaboration

Financial analysis

Executive leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field (24 accounting hours)

CPA or professional accounting certification

Tools

Financial systems

Cost accounting

Job description

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is a Defense Agency of the Department of War (DoW) under the direction, authority, and control of the Under Secretary of War for Intelligence & Security (USW (I&S)).

This job is open to: all qualified applicants

Duties

The Director of Financial Management and Comptroller serves as DCSA's senior financial-management executive and principal financial adviser to the DCSA Director and senior leadership. The incumbent directs and oversees the Agency's end-to-end financial-management program, including budget formulation and execution, accounting, funds control, financial reporting, internal controls, audit remediation, cost management, financial systems, and Working Capital Fund operations. The position provides independent, objective financial advice concerning Agency strategy, resource allocation, mission affordability, and financial risk. This is a Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service Tier 2 position. The incumbent exercises executive direction and oversight of an annual financial portfolio of approximately $3.0 billion, comprising approximately $1.9 billion in Defense Working Capital Fund activity and $1.1 billion in appropriated funding. The incumbent directs the formulation, justification, execution, accounting, funds control, financial reporting, and performance assessment of these resources and oversees Working Capital Fund rate development, cost recovery, revenue and expense forecasting, cash management, customer billing, and long-term financial sustainability.

Exercise executive direction and oversight of an annual financial portfolio exceeding $3.0 billion, comprising approximately $1.9 billion in Defense Working Capital Fund activity and $1.1 billion inappropriated funding. Direct the formulation, justification, execution, accounting, funds control, financial reporting, and performance assessment of these resources.

Direct the financial governance of DCSA Working Capital Fund operations, including rate and price development, full-cost recovery, cash and corpus management, revenue, cost, and workload forecasting, customer billing, cost transparency, and the long-term financial sustainability of DCSA's fee-for-service operations.

Establish and oversee DCSA's enterprise cost-accounting and cost-management framework. Ensure the consistent identification, accumulation, allocation, and reporting of direct and indirect costs to support Working Capital Fund rates, reimbursable pricing, program and activity cost transparency, customer billing, managerial decision-making, auditability, and assessment of mission efficiency.

Serve as the principal financial adviser to the DCSA Director and senior leadership on financial management, resource allocation, fiscal risk, affordability, and the financial implications of Agency strategy and operating decisions.

Represent DCSA before Departmental oversight organizations, the Office of Management and Budget, congressional committees and staff, Intelligence Community partners, customers, and other federal organizations on budgetary and financial-management matters.

Establish and maintain an effective internal-control environment; direct financial-statement audit support, audit remediation, improper-payment and fraud-risk activities, and corrective actions addressing material weaknesses and other financial-management deficiencies.

Provide executive oversight of financial management systems, business processes, financial data governance, and system modernization, ensuring reliable, timely, and decision-useful financial and cost information.

Lead and develop DCSA's financial-management workforce and establish functional standards, workforce-development priorities, succession plans, and accountability for financial-management performance across headquarters and field organizations.

Ensure compliance with appropriations law, fiscal controls, funds-control requirements, applicable accounting standards, and Departmental and Intelligence Community financial-management policies.

Establish policy, governance, and financial controls for DCSA reimbursable activities and agreements. Oversee the development, review, acceptance, execution, billing, collection, reconciliation, closeout, and financial reporting of reimbursable orders to ensure full-cost recovery, proper use of funds, accurate customer billing, and compliance with applicable fiscal and financial-management requirements.

Provide executive financial oversight of interagency agreements and other intra-governmental transactions, including agreements under the Economy Act and other applicable statutory authorities. Ensure that agreements contain appropriate funding authority, bona fide-need and period-of-availability determinations, cost estimates, billing provisions, internal controls, reconciliations, and closeout requirements.

Qualifications

There is NO requirement to prepare a narrative statement specifically addressing the Executive Core Qualifications (ECqs) or the Technical Qualifications (TQs). However, to meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show that you possess the ECQS and TQS within your resume - NOT TO EXCEED 2 PAGES. Resume pages in excess of the two page limit will not be evaluated.

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECqs) and TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQs):

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECqs):

ECQ 1 - Commitment to the Rule of Law and the Principles of the American Founding:

This core qualification requires a demonstrated knowledge of the American system of government, commitment to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law, and commitment to serve the American people.

ECQ 2 - Driving Efficiency

This core qualification involves the demonstrated ability to strategically and efficiently manage resources, budget effectively, cut wasteful spending, and pursue efficiency through process and technological upgrades.

ECQ 3 - Merit and Competence:

This core qualification involves the demonstrated knowledge, ability and technical competence to effectively and reliably produce work that is of exceptional quality.

ECQ 4 - Leading People:

This core qualification involves the demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a group toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals, and to drive a high-performance, high-accountability culture. This includes, when necessary, the ability to lead people through change and to hold individuals accountable.

ECQ 5 - Achieving Results:

This core qualification involves the demonstrated ability to achieve both individual and organizational results, and to align results to stated goals from superiors.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (TQs):

1. Expert level experience in establishing and managing inter-agency financial operations with other federal agencies and departments (e.g., OSW Comptroller, OMB budget examiners); or similar experience in inter-organizational financial operations in industry.
2. Expert level experience managing financial operations of large organizations (greater than 5000 people) and $3 billion both appropriated fund accounts and revolving fund accounts (e.g., Working Capital Funds or commercial revenue-generating business).

Education

This position has a positive education requirement.

Education Requirement:

-A bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field (such as business administration, finance, or public administration) that included at least 24 semester hours in accounting

OR

-A Combination of Education and Experience that includes: At least 24 semester hours in accounting or auditing (which can include up to 6 hours in business law) and a combination of professional experience, a CPA certificate, or being a member of a recognized professional accounting association.