Financial Manager (Chief Financial Officer)

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; West Palm Beach (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, West Palm Beach VA Healthcare System, seeks a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief of Fiscal Service to lead the financial function as the primary expert in budgeting and accounting.

You will establish and maintain an integrated system of financial staff services, overseeing accounting, budgeting, collections oversight, and cost analysis to support effective management control over facility operations and strategic decision-making.

Qualifications

• Degree in accounting or a related field with 24 accounting hours.
• 24 hours may include up to 6 hours business law.
• CPA or CIA certification meets the requirement.

Skills

Time-in-Grade experience

Federal service

Education

Accounting degree

24 accounting hours in curriculum

CPA or CIA certification

Job description

Summary

The position is located within Veterans Health Administration in West Palm Beach - FL. This position is the primary financial expert (CFO) for the West Palm Beach VA Healthcare System as the Chief of Fiscal Service who is responsible for establishing and maintaining a complex integrated system of financial staff services - which contribute to effective management control over facility operations. Services include but not limited to accounting - budgeting - collection oversight - and cost analysis.

Summary

The position is located within Veterans Health Administration in West Palm Beach - FL. This position is the primary financial expert (CFO) for the West Palm Beach VA Healthcare System as the Chief of Fiscal Service who is responsible for establishing and maintaining a complex integrated system of financial staff services - which contribute to effective management control over facility operations. Services include but not limited to accounting - budgeting - collection oversight - and cost analysis.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position - applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement - 11/05/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. The grade may have been in any occupation - but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year - it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade - as required by the announcement. In this instance - you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR)

Basic Requirements

• Degree: accounting
• or a degree in a related field such as business administration - finance - or public administration that included or was supplemented by 24 semester hours in accounting
• The 24 hours may include up to 6 hours of credit in business law
• (The term ""accounting"" means ""accounting and/or auditing"" in this standard
• Similarly - ""accountant"" should be interpreted - generally - as ""accountant and/or auditor."") OR Combination of education and experience: at least 4 years of experience in accounting - or an equivalent combination of accounting experience - college-level education - and training that provided professional accounting knowledge
• The applicant's background must also include one of the following: Twenty-four semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality
• This can include up to 6 hours of business law
• or A certificate as Certified Public Accountant or a Certified Internal Auditor - obtained through written examination
• or Completion of the requirements for a degree that included substantial course work in accounting or auditing - e.g. - 15 semester hours - but that does not fully satisfy the 24-semester-hour requirement of paragraph A - provided that (a) the applicant has successfully worked at the full-performance level in accounting -auditing - or a related field - e.g. - valuation engineering or financial institution examining
• (b) a panel of at least two higher level professional accountants or auditors has determined that the applicant has demonstrated a good knowledge of accounting and of related and underlying fields that equals in breadth - depth - currency - and level of advancement that which is normally associated with successful completion of the 4-year course of study described in paragraph A
• and (c) except for literal