About This Position
THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION DUTY LOCATION: United Stated Property & Fiscal Office (USPFO), Hartford, CT AREA(S) OF CONSIDERATION: Area I: All On Board Federal Employees (T5), Tenure 0,1,2,3 assigned to the USPFO within the CTNG with U.S. citizenship.
Qualifications
MANDATORY EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: Degree in 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 six hours of credit in business law. GENERAL EXPERIENCE: All on-board Series GS-0511 personnel must be certified at the next higher grade-level before being eligible for grade promotion to that level; and, must have a minimum of one year on-the-job experience in the grade immediately below the next higher level.
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Your resume and any other supporting documentation you wish to provide must clearly substantiate you currently possess the required length of specialized experience in the following: REQUIRES 48 MONTHS: Must possess at the least, level one or level two financial management certification. Experience demonstrating financial audit and/or performance audit competencies that led to objective and systematic examinations and resulted in independent audit assessments of structure, performance, efficiency, program, activity or function. Experience and competencies providing expert performance results in applying auditing principles and procedures.
Experience in audit preparation, planning, conducting, and reporting with a full range of competencies in the auditing business that successfully accomplished intended purposes; met or exceeded operational efficiency; provided accurate, reliable, timely, and useful financial audit data; or demonstrated experiences in conducting audits that involved evaluating financial management in terms of economical use of property and personnel. Experience demonstrating adherence to prescribed policies; effective control over expenditures, liabilities, revenues, and assets; proper accounting for resources and financial transactions; compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and precedent decisions; and compliance of agency accounting systems with generally accepted must include audit report preparations and oral presentations that involved significant audit findings and discovered conditions with cause and effect factors. Experience presenting research recommendations for remedial actions, such as addressing methods for improving the use of funds and the identification of questionable costs.
Experience demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the principles and concepts of the audit business program requirements. Experience demonstrating an expanded finance and auditor program competencies and training that demonstrated his or her competencies to lead, train subordinates, follow directions, read, retain, and comply with instructions, regulations, policies and procedures. REQUIRES 24 MONTHS: Experience demonstrating broadening finance and audit program competencies in supervising, planning and scheduling work in a manner that promotes smooth flow and even distribution of work assignments.
Experience training and guiding employees on finance and audit programs and assigning tasks. Experience involving audit program assignments, balancing finance and audit program work requirements, compliance with specific finance and audit program policies, and providing advice, mentoring, and directions on a wide variety career development options. Experience in addressing specific employee performance issues.
Experience in structuring assignments that created effective and efficient procedures with measured and improved task processes. Experience improving training applications for career development timeliness considerations, and work efficiencies. Experience and/or endorsements on mentorship competencies provided to employees.
Experience demonstrating a working knowledge of equal employment and affirmative action programs. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Skill in collecting and analyzing data effectively, efficiently, and accurately. Ability to clearly enunciate English without impediment of speech that would interfere or prohibit effective communication.
Ability to write English in reports and presentation formats. Ability to comprehend and/or apply problem-solving and negotiating techniques. Skill in working with multiple software computer programs. Skill in presenting formal training presentations and briefings.
Skill in applying procedures and directives by reading and interpreting program material.
Major Duties
This National Guard position is for a SUPERVISORY AUDITOR (Title 5), Position Description Number T5143P01 and is part of the CT USPFO, National Guard. Temporary promotion not to exceed two (2) years. The purpose of the temporary promotion is to backfill a deployed Soldier.
The temporary promotion will be terminated within 30 days of return of the incumbent to the position. Position to be filled upon the vacancy of the incumbent. JOB SUMMARY: The primary purpose of the position is to supervise a staff of Auditors engaged in substantive professional, technical, and administrative work.
Supervisory duties constitute at least 25% of the work of this position and the creditable base level of work supervised is GS-12. To credit this base level requires supervision of a unit in which at least 25% of the non-supervisory work directed is at the GS-12 level. Serves as principle auditor and authoritative expert on internal review and audit compliance.
The major duties include, but are not limited to: Responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, and reviewing daily and long term operations. Exercises supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Develops programs and makes assignments by establishing priorities in conjunction with the Adjutant General and USPFO.
Performs liaison functions with internal/external agencies, and private organizations, e.g., Army Audit Agency, Government Accounting Office, Air Force Auditing, State Legislative Audit, Congressional Staff, and contractors to schedule audits and coordinate responses. Performs analyses, surveys, and studies as a "troubleshooter" in critical areas involving problems of exceptional complexity and having significant operational or financial management impact, identifies the source of troubles or difficulties, and solves, eliminates, corrects, or overcomes them.
Education
No substitution of education for specialized experience. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the requirements.
You must show proof the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. To receive credit for education, you must provide documentation of proof that you meet the education requirements for this position.
How You Will Be Evaluated
Please ensure you follow all instructions carefully. Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience.
If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this position. If you are found to be among the top qualified candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration.
Additional Information
Primary Change of Station (PCS) relocation expenses will NOT be paid. To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees. Therefore, to the extent a Federal job announcement includes the requirement that applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to E.O.14043, that requirement does not currently apply.
Federal agencies may request information regarding the vaccination status of selected applicants for the purposes of implementing other workplace safety protocols, such as protocols related to masking, physical distancing, testing, travel, and quarantine. If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency (https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistration.aspx).
How to Apply
To apply for this position, you must complete the online application and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. A complete application package must be submitted by 03/17/2026 on to receive consideration. To begin, click Apply to access the online application.
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Required Documents
To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Application Package which includes: Resume showing relevant experience (including Month and Year, e.g., 02/2017, Feb 2017, etc.) Responses to the Assessment Questionnaire Member 4 copy of DD 214 (if claiming veterans' preference) SF 15 or supporting documentation listed on the SF 15 (if claiming 10 points veterans' preference) In addition, if claiming a compensable service-connected disability of 10% or more, you must submit a VA Letter or a disability determination from a branch of the Armed Forces (or documentation of purple heart, if applicable) Unofficial Transcripts (You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your Educational claims) Financial Management Certification (Level I, or II), if applicable 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. ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS: The VOW Act Chapter 21 of Title 5, United States Code (U.S.C.), Section 2108a, requires Federal agencies treat active duty service member as veterans, disabled veterans, and preference eligible, when they submit, at the time they apply for a Federal job, a "certification" of active service in lieu of a DD-214, assuming the service member is otherwise eligible. A "certification" letter should be on letterhead of the appropriate military branch of the service and contain (1) the military service dates including the expected discharge or release date; and (2) the character of service.
The service member's military service dates are necessary in order to determine whether he or she meets the definition of "veteran" under 5 U.S.C. 2108(1). The "certification" must reflect the service member is expected to be discharged or released from active duty service in the armed forces under honorable conditions not later than 120 days after the date of submission. The "certification" must be signed by, or by direction of, the adjutant, personnel officer, or commander of your unit or higher headquarters and must indicate when your terminal leave will begin (if applicable), your rank, dates of active duty service, the type of discharge and character of service (i.e. honorable).
Further, under paragraph (h) of the rule, agencies are required to verify a qualifying separation from military service prior to appointment, through the DD-214 or other appropriate documentation.
Your preference and/or appointment eligibility will be verified prior to appointment. Active duty members that fail to provide a valid "certification" of service with their initial application will be found "not eligible." Military members may be appointed before the effective date of their military retirement/separation if member is on terminal leave.