Financial Integrity Specialist

Austincc; Rockville, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Austincc is seeking a Financial Integrity Specialist in Rockville, MD to lead teams, perform financial reviews, and develop policy guidance. The role emphasizes compliance, internal controls, and post-award monitoring across agency programs.

The ideal candidate will provide technical guidance on complex financial issues, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and conduct extensive data analysis to improve program effectiveness and accountability.

Qualifications

• Technical guidance for complex financial issues.
• Leadership for post-award monitoring activities.
• Clear and concise written and oral communication.

Responsibilities

• Leading team assignments by prioritizing work, distributing tasks, setting milestones, and ensuring timely completion.
• Conducting complex management improvement and cost-effectiveness studies to evaluate efficiency, program effectiveness, productivity, and impact of changes.
• Performing comprehensive operational and financial integrity reviews to assess resource management, program results, and internal controls.
• Developing and interpreting financial integrity policies and guidance addressing complex issues.
• Leading internal control reviews and preparing analyses to strengthen fiscal accountability and decision-making.
• Managing pre-award and post-award contract, grant, and agreement activities, including developing statements of work, monitoring performance, reviewing deliverables and invoices, and resolving technical issues.

Skills

Technical guidance

Leadership

Communication

Financial data analysis

Job description

As a Financial Integrity Specialist, you will:

• Leading team assignments by communicating priorities, distributing workloads, establishing milestones, monitoring progress, and ensuring timely completion of quality work products.


• Conducting complex management improvement and cost-effectiveness studies to evaluate organizational efficiency, program effectiveness, productivity, and the impact of proposed legislative or regulatory changes.


• Performing comprehensive operational and financial integrity reviews to assess resource management, program results, regulatory compliance, organizational effectiveness, and internal controls.


• Developing and interpreting financial integrity policies, procedures, and guidance addressing complex, novel, or controversial issues affecting agency programs.


• Leading internal control reviews and preparing comprehensive analyses and recommendations to strengthen fiscal accountability, operational effectiveness, resource utilization, and management decision‑making.


• Managing pre‑award and post‑award contract, grant, and agreement activities, including developing statements of work, monitoring performance, reviewing deliverables and invoices, and resolving technical issues.


• LL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET BY THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.
  Your resume (limited to no more than 2 pages) must include detailed information as it relates to the responsibilities and specialized experience for this position. Evidence of copying and pasting directly from the vacancy announcement without clearly documenting supplemental information to describe your experience will result in an ineligible rating. This will prevent you from being considered further.
  In order to qualify for the GS‑14: You must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the GS‑13 level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors), to include:
  1. Providing technical guidance for a wide variety of complex financial issues;
  2. Providing leadership and guidance for conducting post award grant monitoring activities;
  3. Communicating information, ideas, and advice in a clear, concise, and logical manner, both orally and in writing, at all levels of the organization and with internal and/or external customers; And
  4. Analyzing financial data and reviewing findings and reports.
  
  Documenting Experience:
  
  IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Qualifications are based on breadth / level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the exact dates of each period of employment (from MM/YY to MM/YY) and the number of hours worked per week if part time. As qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, failure to provide this information may result in disqualification. Applicants are encouraged to use the USAJOBS Resume Builder to develop their federal resume.
  
  Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.