Lead Financial Management Analyst

Summary

This position is located in the Criminal Division's Finance Group (FG) and serves under the direct supervision of the Controller. The Finance Group is responsible for the overall financial management, monitoring, and reporting, for all 17 sections of the Criminal Division. The Finance Group works to ensure policy compliance, execute budget and financial initiatives, and strategically manage the Division's fiscal resources.

Duties

• As Lead Financial Management Analyst, you will be: Providing critical guidance to Criminal Division managers on a full range of financial activities and functions, including the validation of expenditures and procedures for processing budget requests. Participating in the development of long-range plans based on expenditures, funds reprogramming, and other budgetary information. Managing the workload, mentoring, and training of an assigned team of finance professionals, technicians, trainees, and/or contractor employees. Analyzing and ensuring the development of weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports of obligations and expenditures using relevant applications and data repositories. Investigating the utilization of government funds and identifying areas for streamlining and ensuring the placement of adequate controls. Overseeing the development of budget execution documents. Conducting quarterly and annual year-end-closing activities and performing reconciliation with accounting. Resolving complex prediction and forecasting problems resulting from uncertainties and changes in the operating programs. Leading financial audit preparation to include account analysis; audit sample preparation; complex data issue resolution; obligations, revenue, payment, and internal controls review; and other related activities.

Qualifications

To qualify at the GS-13 level: You must have at least one year of specialized experience at, or equivalent to, the GS-12 federal grade level. This experience must include duties such as: managing the development of budget execution documents; providing guidance on a full range of financial activities and functions, including the validation of expenditures and procedures for processing budget requests; and recommending solutions to address budget shortages and fiscal problems. Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements for consideration by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

There is no education requirement for this position.

How to apply

To apply for this position, you must provide a complete application package which includes the assessment questionnaire and the required documents indicated below. The application package must be received by 11:59 PM, Eastern Time, on 09/18/2026. We recommend that you preview the online questions for this announcement before you start the application process. You may preview the assessment questionnaire by clicking https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13013690. To begin the process, click the Apply Online button to create an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account. Follow the prompts to complete the assessment questionnaire. Please ensure you click the "Submit My Answers" button at the end of the process. To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account, https://www.usajobs.gov/, select the Application Status link and then select the More Information link for this position. The Details page will display the status of your application, the documentation received and processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent related to this application. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. To return to an incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account and click Update Application in the vacancy announcement. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your application will be incomplete. Reasonable Accommodation Statement: Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the Human Resources team at [email protected]. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.