Job Title: Senior Financial Systems Specialist, CG-0501-14

Duties

• Provides project leadership in corporate financial systems related projects. Analyzes the financial impact, cost savings, and improved efficiency and effectiveness of on-going and proposed maintenance and security projects, and presents findings and recommendations.
• Assists in developing procedures, policies, and system solutions and enhancements to accommodate policy or system changes across the Corporation that affect the financial systems or processes and ensures compliance with financial, accounting and information security standards and policies.
• Provides consultation and recommendations to senior management in the evaluation of new or improved financial information systems technology and/or applications software. Researches current or emerging technologies, and determines whether to adopt new releases or updates.
• Leads and conducts functional and technical tests and validations of upgrades, external and internal software releases, DIT mandated testing, disaster recovery, user acceptance testing, contingency planning efforts, enhancements and maintenance for NFE and other financial systems, legacy and external systems that interface with or use NFE data.
• Supports and coordinates financial system interfaces with internal and external applications, batch processing, allocations, and closing processes including, performing activities to open/close accounting periods. Troubleshoots issues and assists with reconciliations and testing to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Develops, performs, and maintains reconciliations of processes to ensure that data and reports are accurate. Creates queries and reports for exception and due diligence monitoring of configuration data elements.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment
Completion Of Financial Disclosure May Be Required.
Background Investigation (BI) required.

Qualifications

Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious/spiritual; community; student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Additional qualifications information can be found here.
To qualify, applicants must have completed at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the CG/GS-13 grade level or above in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience leading projects or teams responsible for designing, testing, implementing, or monitoring components of financial management and accounting systems including PeopleSoft modules, consistent with accounting and system controls, policies, practices and standards
Applicants must have met the qualification requirements (including selective placement factors - if any) for this position within 30 calendar days of the closing date of this announcement.

Education
There is no substitution of education for the experience for this position.

Additional information

Additional selections may be made from this vacancy announcement to fill identical vacancies that occur subsequent to this announcement.
Selectee(s) for this position will be required to report to their duty station office two days per week.
If selected, you may be required to serve a probationary period.
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Your resume and the online assessment questionnaire will be reviewed, to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements outlined in this announcement. Therefore, it is imperative that your resume contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make the qualification determination. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level.
Your resume will also be evaluated to measure your responses to the assessment questions. If you rated yourself higher on the questionnaire than what is supported by your resume, your overall qualifications assessment may be adversely affected.
Top ranked candidates will be referred to the selecting official for further review and consideration.
The competencies/knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) you will be assessed on are listed below.

• Knowledge of IT project management principles and practices for developing, enhancing, maintaining, testing, and implementing financial systems.
• Ability to identify and analyze problems, weigh relevance and accuracy of information, generate and evaluate alternative solutions, and make appropriate recommendations to solve operational and systems problems.
• Knowledge of the concepts, trends, and best practices in IT system development, data management and analytics, and cyber security management programs.
• Ability to communicate orally.
• Ability to communicate in writing.
• Knowledge and experience working with PeopleSoft financial applications or other major Commercial- Off-The-Shelf COTS/GOTS financial system software. You do not need to respond separately to these KSAs. Your answers to the online questionnaire and resume will serve as responses to the KSAs.

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• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
In addition to the regular benefits offered by Federal agencies, the FDIC offers additional benefits to its employees. These benefits, some at minimal cost, are some of the best and most competitive in both the private and public sectors.
To find out more, click here.

Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

• As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have - whether you're a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee. You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you're eligible under their policies.

Failure to provide all of the required documentation as stated in this vacancy announcement, may result in an ineligible determination or may affect your consideration status. Please review the following to determine your eligibility and which document(s) is required to complete your application:

FDIC EMPLOYEES: If you want to be considered non-competitively include a copy of your SF-50. The SF-50 must show the highest grade level or full performance level applicant has attained competitively on a permanent basis, and grade must be equivalent or higher than the grade for which applying.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from .
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

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