4290 Senior Financial SME

Finance And Accounting Division Support

Support the Finance and Accounting Division with all aspects of accounting; financial reporting and statement certification activities; financial reconciliations; vendor pay operations; processing and maintenance of obligations; audit response and sustainment; financial and accounting compliance; risk management and internal control for the agency; foreign military sales financial activities, and DTRA financial management and accounting systems.

General duties include :

• Senior Financial Management advisor able to integrate financial management data across Comptroller Department to form clear, concise, complete, and technically accurate responses.
• Serve as a SWME in the areas of : Financial Operations, Accounting Services, Financial Reporting, Audit Response and Sustainment, and Risk Management and Internal Control.
• Assist the Comptroller Department in planning, scheduling, and executing internal training and all hands discussions on timely and relevant financial management topics of interest to the Comptroller Department workforce.
• Monitor and maintain the information found on the Comptroller Department web-pages within the DTRA internal and external websites to ensure that organizational and functional information is current and accurate.
• Applies expert financial management knowledge in integrating input from various sources to assist in formulating Department responses to a variety of taskers and actions.
• Conduct substantive language edits of all packages to ensure that sentence complexity is appropriate for the document, ideas are presented in a clear and concise manner, and the use of jargon and technical terms are appropriate.
• Record obligations (e.g., contract awards, Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs) / Interagency Agreements (IAAs) / Intergovernmental transactions (IGT), (G-invoicing), and Miscellaneous Obligation Reimbursement Document (MORDs) in the accounting system.
• Process miscellaneous pay invoices in DAI. Coordinate with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), and the Treasury Bureau of Fiscal Service, as necessary, to ensure that payments are made timely.
• Provide problem disbursement support, known as Unmatched Disbursements (UMD) to identify underlying causes that prevent disbursement transactions recorded in DCAS from posting to the DTRA DAI accounting records.
• Provide finance and accounting data call information to internal DTRA customers, independent auditors, and external customers (e.g., DFAS, OSD, OMB, DoD Inspector General (DoD IG)).
• Maintain accounting records and account balances in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual financial certification of financial reports with DFAS and other DoD components.
• Develop financial reporting related corrective action plans (CAPS) to address self-identified or auditor-identified deficiencies.
• Support DTRA's financial audit response and sustainment, which includes working closely with Finance and Accounting Division and other Agency personnel to document and update standard operating procedures and process narratives, prepare, and execute tests of internal controls over financial reporting and financial systems, including assessment of service. Provider System and Organization Controls (SOC) report, and DTRA's implementation of complimentary user entity controls, and develop and facilitate implementation of corrective action plans.
• Provide day-to-day support and expertise to the agency risk management and internal control program.
• Provide support to ensure Agency compliance with current financial management and accounting requirements and reform initiatives, such as Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) accounting statements / concepts, OMB circulars and bulletins, OSD Comptroller guidance, the DoD Financial Management Regulation, and other Federal / DoD requirements.

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Clearance : Secret minimum