Senior Advisor for Financial Management

Mandatory Requirements

Extensive knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices, laws, and regulations of financial management, budgeting, accounting, or auditing sufficient to conduct difficult assignments involving interfaces and inter-relationships between and among programs, systems, functions, policies, and various issues and relationships between the IC and ODNI organizational elements, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congress.

Demonstrated ability to plan, prepare, justify, administer, analyze, forecast, and monitor budget/financial information to ensure cost-effective support of organizations and programs, including conducting budget/financial data analysis and assessing financial conditions by applying financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.

Demonstrated ability to independently analyze exceptionally large and complex national level programs.

Demonstrated ability to substantially assess enterprise-wide organizational processes and programs to develop, recommend, and implement budgetary and financial policies and agreements.

Demonstrated ability to make decisions and recommendations that address undefined issues that require much consideration and extensive analysis of immediate and long-range implications.

Demonstrated ability to consider and assess intent of financial or budgetary and program legislation and effect on achievement of strategic objectives; demonstrated ability to resolve conflicting objectives and requirements that result from important national program goals which overlap or conflict with goals of other programs and national priorities.

Demonstrated ability to provide advice to customers, in context of operation requirements bases on financial analysis and recommends possible courses of action.

Demonstrated ability to develop and render authoritative interpretations of executive orders, OMB guidelines and directives, and policies and precedents within and across the IC.

Demonstrated ability to use judgment and ingenuity and exercise broad latitude in interpreting intent of applicable guidance (often with peer recognition as the technical authority).

Demonstrated ability to conduct accounting, and financial reporting information; extensive knowledge of financial principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.

Extensive knowledge of departmental or agency financial management policy, regulations, and financial systems and demonstrated ability to apply sound and independent judgment in order to resolve complex financial problems.

Demonstrated ability to craft policy on financial management, budgetary requirements, accounting, or auditing for use throughout the IC or ODNI.

Demonstrated ability to manage the financial implications of strategic and capital/life cycle/infrastructure planning, investment.

Extensive knowledge of the IC and its components, missions, and interrelationships, including the demonstrated ability to lead broad-based teams regarding key IC financial management issues.

Extensive experience establishing and maintaining professional networks with all levels of management both internal and external to the ODNI.

Demonstrated representational, oral, and written communication skills, including the demonstrated ability to produce clear, logical, and concise products.

Demonstrated organizational and interpersonal skills, and demonstrated ability to negotiate, build consensus, and work effectively and independently in a team or collaborative environment.

Demonstrated ability to develop consensus recommendations and to solicit input from colleagues and peers; demonstrated ability to remain open-minded and change opinions on the basis of new information and requirements.

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience. 24 hours of finance, accounting or other relevant business courses.