Supervisory Accountant, Gs-0510-14 - Chesapeake, United States - U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Coast Guard

Verified Company

Chesapeake, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Duties:

This position serves as a Branch Chief in the Comptroller Division of the United states Coast Guard (USCG) Finance Center (FINCEN).

The position has responsibility for supervising and ensuring the accuracy and timely processing and reporting of various types of accounting transactions and events occurring over the course of the accounting cycle associated with activities such as commercial and member payments; receivables and collections, including intra-governmental payments and collections; property, plant and equipment; cash reconciliations; and financial statement preparation in accordance with federal regulations, standards, policies and procedures on behalf of the USCG and other federal customer agencies.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team

Typical work assignments include:

Providing expert advice in accounting, fiscal operations, and Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act implementation.
Validating data entered into accounting systems and consolidates for various USCG programs and FINCEN crossserviced customers.
Serving as office contact for review and reporting on matters related to the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA), providing information on material weaknesses and other management control weaknesses identified during reviews.
Reviewing agency level accounting reconciliations and reports to ensure accuracy and timeliness and to provide agencywide policy and oversight on a variety of operating accounting and financial reporting matters.
Serving as a resource to agency managers and staff in researching laws, regulations, policy guidelines, and other pertinent documents to establish agency fiscal policy.

Requirements:

Conditions of Employment:

U.S. Citizenship is required.
Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
A oneyear Supervisory Probationary Period may be required.

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Qualifications:

Basic Requirements:

At the GS-14 level
:Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13** grade level in the federal service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

Specialized experience includes the following:

Experience in accounting, audit engagement and remediation, financial management policy, and personal property accountability;
Experience developing, directing and having oversight of new or updated financial management policy to include the management of personal property and the timely and complete reporting of financial information;
Experience conducting or directing the preparation of written reports and oral briefings to higher headquarters; and
Experience performing the administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised

AND
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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
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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:

Twentyfour semester hours in accounting or auditing courses of appropriate type and quality. This can include up to 6 hours of business law;
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 24semesterhour requirement of paragraph A, provided that (a) the applicant has successfully worked at the fullperformance 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 4year course of study described in paragraph A; and (c) except for literal nonconformance to the requirement of 24 semester hours in accounting, the applicant's education, train