Financial Management Analyst (FMA)

About the role

This position involves performing financial management functions including accounting, budgeting, and reporting. Responsibilities include reviewing and monitoring expenditures, ensuring proper documentation, applying reconciliation processes, extracting financial data, and maintaining internal controls.

Responsibilities

• Classifies expenses; monitors expenditure rates; and maintains records of obligations and expenditures within budgeted funds for specific accounts.
• Applies reconciliation techniques toward budgets and ensures monies are utilized in a manner consistent with congressional intent and the FBI mission.
• Extracts financial data from various reports; and/or applies statistical logic necessary for budget formulation of requests.
• Performs various budget analysis activities, using efficient and effective methods to reconcile accounts and formulate costing.
• Conducts monthly reconciliations of undercover accounts and program specific funding.
• Establishes and maintains effective internal controls over financial reporting methods which include safeguarding of assets and complying with appropriate laws and regulations.
• Makes recommendations to management regarding account discrepancies and performs various audits of program budget accounts.
• Prepares monthly reconciliations of revolving confidential advances and program specific funding.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Experience performing basic analytical work in the area of financial management.
• Experience applying financial management practices to resolve issues.
• Experience reviewing financial and budget reports.
• Experience reviewing, interpreting, and explaining policy and/or directives.
• Experience ensuring efficient and effective operational and administrative requirements are met while adhering to federal government rules and regulations.
• Experience independently identifying and resolving issues while making recommendations to management on various routine financial assignments.
• Experience providing guidance/consultative services relating to financial and budget matters.
• Experience with a wide range of government financial management theories, practices, and techniques sufficient to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a variety of complex assignments.
• Experience independently identifying and resolving issues while making recommendations to management on various complex financial assignments.
• Experience utilizing qualitative and quantitative data in financial reporting methods, techniques, and strategies to produce to reports, results, or resolve issues.
• Experience extracting financial data from various reports; and/or applying statistical logic necessary for budget formulation of request.

Qualifications

• GS-7: At least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-5 grade level, with experience performing basic analytical work in the area of financial management, applying financial management practices to resolve issues, reviewing financial and budget reports, and reviewing, interpreting, and explaining policy and/or directives.
• GS-9: At least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-7 grade level, in addition to the above, with experience ensuring efficient and effective operational and administrative requirements are met while adhering to federal government rules and regulations, independently identifying and resolving issues while making recommendations to management on various routine financial assignments, and providing guidance/consultative services relating to financial and budget matters.
• GS-11: At least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-9 grade level, in addition to the above, with experience with a wide range of government financial management theories, practices, and techniques sufficient to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a variety of complex assignments, independently identifying and resolving issues while making recommendations to management on various complex financial assignments, utilizing qualitative and quantitative data in financial reporting methods, techniques, and strategies to produce to reports, results, or resolve issues, and extracting financial data from various reports; and/or applying statistical logic necessary for budget formulation of request.

Benefits

The FBI offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

The starting salary for this position is $50,460.00 - $65,559.00 for GS-7, $61,722.00 - $80,243.00 for GS-9, and $74,678.00 - $97,087.00 for GS-11.

Schedule

The working hours are 8:30am-5:00pm (flexible).

Contact Information

To apply, interested applicants must provide a complete application package by the closing date which includes: Utilizing the Resume Builder, uploaded resumes, other supporting documents, and a copy of their most recent SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) showing their tenure, grade and step, salary, and type of position occupied (i.e., Excepted or Competitive); or similar Notification of Personnel Action documentation, i.e., Transcript of Service, Form 1150, etc. This is a requirement to verify their Time in Grade (TIG).