Senior Accountant

• Conduct ad hoc analysis into all outstanding or abnormal activity to determine root cause of balances and develop mitigation plans to ensure proper accounting closeout.
• Liaise with financial management staff across the FBI to research and reconcile activity and validate adherence to Treasury Financial Manual accounting.
• Facilitate and present findings during review sessions of all outstanding financial activity associated with financial accounting closeout, including maintaining on-going reconciliation analysis of all identified activity.
• Analysis and reconciliation of UDO activities to Trial Balance and Standard General Ledger accounts.
• Analysis of UDO risk stratification amongst all obligation categories, including validation that risk assignments are appropriately determined and analyze future risk categories.
• Manage data call activities, primarily via MS SharePoint development and maintenance, in concert with staff and with all UDO managers across the FBI, to include providing management reporting on status of activities.
• Analyze results of UDO validation activities, to include targeted assessment and facilitated FBI management review of high-risk UDOs and substantive and statistical sampling of UDO validation results (using auditing methods consistent with GAGAS) for accuracy and preparation of accompany audit results.
• Facilitate data analysis and results, such as Quarterly Accounts Payable accruals; Plant, Property, and Equipment (PP&E) reconciliations, and Governmentwide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trail Balance System (GTAS) financial reporting.
• Manage FBI Executive Management review and confirmation of FBI quarterly UDO validation process, to include analysis and preparation of all summary memoranda documenting results of all activities and facilitating all formal briefing sessions to present results of high -risk UDOs, sampling results and overall quarterly assessments.
• Conduct and document an analysis of accounts payable activity quarterly through analytical and invoice sampling procedures and determine an appropriate algorithm to support these accounting procedures with high accuracy.
• Assisting in the creation and troubleshooting of UFMS and FRA reports; customized queries; data manipulation and validations.
• Preparing for key reporting activities such as Central Accounting Reporting System (CARS) and GTAS reporting, budgetary reporting and quarterly financial statements including in-depth analysis into financial transactions and accounting activities. This includes the preparation of data reporting and dashboard visualizations to support process management and presentations to FBI Senior and Executive Management.
• Provide direct management over monthly analysis and validation of prior-year obligation adjustment activity.
• Providing support and guidance on the FBI Annual Financial Audit.

• Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college with eight (8) years or more accounting-related work experience in Government accounting and financial management. Educational requirement may be waived if the candidate has ten (10) or more years of experience.
• Eight (8) or more years of working experience in dealing with the full cycle of accounting transactions and internal controls including risk assessments and reviews of risk areas. Seven (7) or more years of specialized experience with financial analysis, financial reporting, USSGL posting logic, TFM, Federal accounting principles, and/or Fund Balance with Treasury reconciliation of other major financial statements control accounts.
• Experience developing and presenting solutions and deliverables as well as delivering training materials and/or assess and improve business processes and controls.
• Possess a current financial certification such as Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), etc.

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